Help! HDs are recognized by bios but not by XP

I have two 200 gig IDE drives running with the Serillel2 connectors
attached to SATA 1/2. They're seen in the bios, but XP doesn't
see them. Suggestions?

IC7-Max3 bios v13
2 - WD 200 gig SATA drives (SATA 3/4)
2 - WD 200 gig IDE drives (using the Serillel v2 connector, SATA 1/2)
P4, 3.06 gig cpu
XP Pro SP1
IDE No-name DVD reader - master on IDE 1
IDE Sony DU500 DVD slave on IDE 1
IDE zip drive - on IDE 2
SCSI Jazz (on it's own adaptec - for legacy files

 

you have loaded the appropriate SATA drivers for the SATA channel in use?
no issues showing in device manager? assuming that the answers to the
previous questions are yes and no respectively, can you see the drive in the
XP Disk Manager under Computer Management? if so, partition and format them
from there...

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Ummm... Is it possible that your problem stems from running out of
hard disc space? Good lord man, isn't that .8 terabytes?

Forrest

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800 gig or 0.8 terrabytes 1 terrabytes = 1000 gigabytes.



doughnut

 

If they are new hard disks make sure they are initialised and formatted.

If they are not new but it is a new xp install do a repair install of xp and
install SATAN drivers at the 3rd party drivers prompt right at the start
(have SATA drivers on floppy)

Go to the manufacturer of your hard disks and make sure you have the Master/
slave jumpers in the correct position to work with a SATA adapter.