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**justpassingby** · 04-13-2007, 05:44 AM

Since your system disk is also a sata one, onboard sata is enabled in the bios settings. I don't think there would be another setting to adjust.
There's a page in the bios where you'll see all your devices listed (HDD, cd-rom, ...) and you new disk should appear there. Should also be an option to autodetect the hard drives.

There might be a jumer on your SATAII disk (I believe not all disks have one), try to play with it and see if that changes something :
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ecteursata.jpg

And yeah, SATAII is not supported by your motherboard. From my experience, a SATAII disk should work on a SATAI motherboard (with the possible jumper set as SATAI), only it will be limited to SATAI speeds, which shouldn't make a big difference. I'll wait for someone else to confirm this however.

04-13-2007, 05:44 AM	#4 (permalink)
justpassingby Moderator, Microsoft Support Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 6,219 OS: XP Home SP3 / Ubuntu My System	Re: Can't Install SATA Hard Drive Since your system disk is also a sata one, onboard sata is enabled in the bios settings. I don't think there would be another setting to adjust. There's a page in the bios where you'll see all your devices listed (HDD, cd-rom, ...) and you new disk should appear there. Should also be an option to autodetect the hard drives. There might be a jumer on your SATAII disk (I believe not all disks have one), try to play with it and see if that changes something : http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ecteursata.jpg And yeah, SATAII is not supported by your motherboard. From my experience, a SATAII disk should work on a SATAI motherboard (with the possible jumper set as SATAI), only it will be limited to SATAI speeds, which shouldn't make a big difference. I'll wait for someone else to confirm this however. Last edited by justpassingby; 04-13-2007 at 05:52 AM.