Hard Drive not recognized

[iurytx]

My dad just bought a new seagate 1tb hard drive off of Newegg. We installed it today and it wasnt recognized in the disk manegment thing. is it dead? This is the second attempt at adding a hard drive to his computer. The first one did the same thing

 

[massahwahl]

Try plugging it into a different sata port and make sure all your connections are secure and plugged in correctly.

 

[iurytx]

Just tryed that right now and still nothing

 

[massahwahl]

What are the specs of the PC?

It may just be bad hdd...

 

[iurytx]

its a Dell dimension 8400
Windows XP
Cpu-P4 630
RAM- 3gb DDR2-667
HDD- WD 160gb

 

[StrangleHold]

When you booted up the first time did windows recognize the drive. (new hardware found)blah blah blah

 

[iurytx]

no

 

[techie211]

you need to install the SATA drivers for that RAID controller. Press F6 after booting off XP disc(at start of blue screen) then press 'S'. Second option(ACHI)

l8r

 

[StrangleHold]

no

Look in your Device Manager and see if there is a yellow ! point.

 

[techie211]

you need to install the SATA drivers for that RAID controller. Press F6 after booting off XP disc(at start of blue screen) then press 'S'. Second option(ACHI)

l8r

EDIT: oops sorry, thought it was a single install

 

[Hugh9191]

I know what the problem is!!!!

On all Dell motherboards all SATA ports with nothing plugged into them are disabled by default. Go in t'bios (F2 on boot) and enable the port that the drive's plugged into.