New SATA drive...XP SP2....not showing up...

[JonyDirk]

OK...so I purchased a new Hitachi SATA drive (250 gb)...my Dell XPS runs Windows XP Pro SP2.

Installed it.

Upon first boot-up, a blue screen & white font runs through a diagnostic of some sort, saying that "the volume is dirty" and that the drive is formated "FAT32".

Everything else during the diagnostic signals OK...

Finishes booting up.

Then: The new drive does not show up. No nothing. Tried rebooting, etc....still nothing. Tried "F2" going into set-up...can't find drive.

My other two SATA drives - both formated "NTSF" - are there.

Don't know what to do...

Any help/suggestion is much appreciated...

Thanks.

John

 

[brandonjp]

did you ever get this figured out? I wish I could help you...I've been having a similar problem...I just purchased and physically installed my first SATA drive, but it's just not showing up under Windows AT ALL...i've tried all the disk utilities i can find (it's a Seagate 200gb SATA drive)...everything else is working fine.

Anyone know what's essential for windows xp to recognize an SATA drive? Any particular device drivers, etc? Anything under the Device Manager or the Services.msc?

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[paparazi]

brandonjp
Typically you need to install SATA drivers which are either on a seperate floppy disk or supplied mainboard driver disk.
You need SP1 installed or newer for XP (SP2)
Once found you need to use disk management tools to partition/format etc.
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[DoctorArt]

Brandonjp,

Generally windows will not see or recognize a SATA drive unless you install the drivers first. When running the OS disk, press F6 to set the drivers up. At the beginiing of the OS load, Windows will ask you to press F6 if you have any SCSI or SATA drives that need to be configured, but it is quick so be carefull not to miss it.

 

[LloydSev]

he's not asking how to install windows on it, but how to get windows to recognize it.

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