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Haz567 · 04-13-2007, 02:52 AM

Hello there, new to the forums. Having some troubles though i'd give this a try. :)

I recieved a 500 GB Sata II hard drive today, and what i want to do with it is have it as a secondary drive to my current 160 GB.

I've set it up within my computer with the SATA power cable and the smaller red one that goes into the motherboard. It goes into the SATA2 port, where my current is in the SATA1. I have turned on the computer, and XP will not recognise this drive as being there. I don't see anything about it in the BIOs setup, and when i go to the disk management screen all i see is my current local C drive.

I rang an IT savvy friend of mine who said it may be because the Hard Drive hasn't gone through an initialision process, and suggested i may have to send it back to the manufacturers. I went around to his place to test it in his computer, which recognised it right away. He set up a quick format partition on it, and told me it would probably work.

I installed it back in and tested it again, and no same problem it doesn't show up. Anybody able to offer any advice of how i could fix this?

If it helps the model is Western Digital 500GB 16 MB SATAII 7200RPM CAVIAR SE16 WD5000AAKS and the motherboard is an Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard. Would it be possible that the SATA2 is not supported by my motherboard?

Any advice would be appreciated thankyou.

04-13-2007, 02:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
Haz567 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 62 OS: XP	Can't Install SATA Hard Drive Hello there, new to the forums. Having some troubles though i'd give this a try. :) I recieved a 500 GB Sata II hard drive today, and what i want to do with it is have it as a secondary drive to my current 160 GB. I've set it up within my computer with the SATA power cable and the smaller red one that goes into the motherboard. It goes into the SATA2 port, where my current is in the SATA1. I have turned on the computer, and XP will not recognise this drive as being there. I don't see anything about it in the BIOs setup, and when i go to the disk management screen all i see is my current local C drive. I rang an IT savvy friend of mine who said it may be because the Hard Drive hasn't gone through an initialision process, and suggested i may have to send it back to the manufacturers. I went around to his place to test it in his computer, which recognised it right away. He set up a quick format partition on it, and told me it would probably work. I installed it back in and tested it again, and no same problem it doesn't show up. Anybody able to offer any advice of how i could fix this? If it helps the model is Western Digital 500GB 16 MB SATAII 7200RPM CAVIAR SE16 WD5000AAKS and the motherboard is an Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard. Would it be possible that the SATA2 is not supported by my motherboard? Any advice would be appreciated thankyou. Last edited by Haz567; 04-13-2007 at 03:01 AM.