HArd Drive not responding

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camel lips

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I am trying to install windows xp on a brand new WD SATA hard drive.HD was formatted on a separate operating computer through windows FAT prior to putting it on this other computer.It shows healthy in the other computer.

The computer I am trying to install it on is a Hp Pavillion a 720N.

Windows xp disk starts up just fine but when it comes time to find the HD to load it,,it finds NOne.

It had a IDE HD when I got it that was FUBAR

Its like the SATA ports are not working.Do I need to wake up the sata ports on this board and if so how do I do that?
 
camel lips said:
Its like the SATA ports are not working.Do I need to wake up the sata ports on this board and if so how do I do that?
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At the phoenix award bios utility cmos window Ive rooted around there to see if there is some way to wake up the sata ports and all I see is stuff about the IDE.

I gotta get this computer up and running today.Anyone help?????????
 
You probably need to get your Sata drivers from HP and put them on a floppy. When you boot to the XP cd at about the second screen at the bottom it says press F6 to install third party drivers, pop the floppy in press F6. A little later in the install it will copy them off.
 
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I just spent the last hour online with a HP tech.It seems this motherboard uses sata instead of sata2 hd.Its a compatibility issue they say.

Are there any SATA HD out there?old style maybe?
 
2048Megabytes said:
What is the difference between Serial ATA and Serial ATA 2?
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Its Sata 1.5 and Sata 3.0. The group that developed Sata 3.0s name was SATA II, they changed there name to SATA-IO to help people to stop calling it Sata II.

Its the transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s
 
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