new hard drive not showing up

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noissesboyobyalp

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ok well before i had a regular ata hard drive. i jsut got the new raptor hard drive wich is sata. i go to instal windows and it cant find the hard drive. what and how can i fix this. if anyone can that knows.... could you instant message me on aim so i can get this problem solved faster? my s/n is noissesboyobyalp
 
i have an abit it7 max 2... if your wondering if its compatiable with sata i think it is,.... at leaste i would think so if theres 2 sata slots.... my question is how can i change it so that it looks for the sata slot and not in the ata? thats all i need to know
 
XP will require SATA drivers when installing Windows. These should have come with the motherboard CD, just extract them onto a floppy, and when installing windows press F6 when asked if you wish to install SATA/RAID drivers.
 
well my mobo's sata and the drivers were already on the board or something cause it read the disk fine without having to install drivers. When you go into bios, look for anything that has to do with the hard drive and there should be something that says IDE, sata, combined, or something like that.
 
ok well i just asked my mother board company for the drivers and they sent them to me... i put it on a disk and put it in the computer and pressed f6 when it said to durning windows instalation and everything worked.
 
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