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what cable is the drive on as in primary or secondary? what is the drive jumpered as as in master, slave or cable select? in the bios did you try to auto detect the drive or just saw in bios not seen?
josue814,what is the drive jumpered as & is it the same on other hd & are both on same cable??
>>secondary. i don't know how to use the bios. each hd has it's own cable.
Sounds like you need the drivers installed for it to recognise your SATA drive. You may need to get a floppy disc with the RAID drivers (should have come with MOBO software), you insert driver floppy into floppy drive (how many times do I have to say floppy!?). Then you will need to configure your RAID set up before you go any further.
You can then stick in your XP disc & install windows. It has been a year since I did it, so I am a little bit sketchy as to the sequence! Unless you have the drivers installed, your MOBO will not recognise the HD!
>> you need drivers to install a hd? i didn't get any drivers. why do i need raid drivers? i don't have raid. i don't even know what raid is.
double check the jumpers
>> check. all looks good.
1. Are you installing this as just extra storage?
2. What is the model number of the motherboard and its approximate age?
>>1. yes and no. i'm have severe issues with viruses, i can't get rid of them when i get them, so i always end up re-installing my os. it's the only thing that works. i just re-installed my os a week ago, and already i have grayware that housecall can't remove. microsoft beta and adaware don't even see it. so i'm going to install 2 more hd's, i'll have one for downloading, one for media, and one for my os. i'm hearing that the viruses will be contained on the one hd. can i have some opinions on this matter?
2. i do not know the model number, or it's age. i bought it from dell 3 months ago.
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