PCI Raid Card/SATA Hard Disk

[bringitonbaby]

have a pentium 3, 733mhz system. I was happy with the speed however I need extra storage capacity. My motherboard was limited to 80gb hard disk capacity. To get around the problem I got a new PCI SATA card and a new 200gb hard disk. I installed all the drivers and everything ran fine. I stored all my files on this new drive.

After a couple of weeks I needed to format the computer so I installed windows XP from scratch. After I installed XP, it did not recognise my SATA drive hooked up onto to the PCI raid card. OK, so I installed the drivers for it like I did before with my original installation. It still did not recognise it. So I went into the Administrative tools section and made it active again. My computer showed the drive. When I click on the drive icon, it said, your drive needs to be formatted! Oops have I lost all me data on this drive? I did not install the windows XP on this drive, it was still installed on the old drive. Can someone please help?

Thank you.

 

[ski]

See if going back to square one helps by uninstalling the software for the PCI SATA card, shut down the computer, disconnect the HD, remove the PCI card, restart the computer, let Windows load to the Desktop, shut down the computer again, and reinstall the PCI card, HD, and drivers exactly as you had done originally.