New build, SATA not recognized

[spiffman66]

Hello,

I am very perplexed by this issue. I just built a new pc as follows:

new Intel 6700 Core 2 Duo (2.66Ghz)
new ASUS P5B Deluxe/Wifi
new Geforce 8800 GTS
old Audigy 2 ZS
old WD SATA 320 Gb
old WD IDE 80 Gb
old Liteon DVDRW 8x

My problem is as follows: I wanted to start with a new install of Win XP on my SATA drive (I already had a 40 Gb partition with it installed, but wanted to reinstall and format the partition for a clean drive for the new parts). I ended up having to put XP on the 80 Gb IDE drive and formatted it.

Now, I updated everything in XP, with SP2 and all the updates. Now I connected my SATA drive with all of my saved data on the one partition and windows on the other partition. Windows will not recognize my SATA drive at all. I have gone into the BIOS settings and messed around to no avail. There are settings for SATA as IDE, AHCI, or RAID.

I cannot boot off this SATA drive since it does not have the clean windows on it. When it somehow takes priority over the 80Gb IDE drive, I just get a blank screen with a solid HDD light.

Any suggestions?

 

[spiffman66]

Alright....

I put it in the SATA 2 port on the MB and now Windows recognizes it. Problem is, it wants to format the drive but I will lose all my MP3s and such... Any way around this?

 

[spiffman66]

**UPDATE**

The 320Gb drive I have is now showing up under the Computer Management screen. I had a 40gig partition with XP on it, and the rest partitioned for my media files. It shows up as 128gigs as healthy and active, and 170.09gigs allocated (however both are unaccessible). It is showing no file system (was NTFS). None of the hard drive is accessible saying I need to reformat the drive.

How do I recover the data?

 

[G0AOZ]

Is the SATA drive readable if it's attached to the original machine it was running in? If not, sounds like a job for a data recovery prog otherwise...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[spiffman66]

I got Ontrack's Easy Recovery Professional, it can find the files on the drive but it does not show their filenames (ex: FILE0410.xxx) it just groups them into their extensions. Is there a way the drive can be read so I can see the filenames?