Help Me Please

smadam · 07-07-2006, 03:16 AM

i recently purchaded a pc off a friend without a hard drive because he wanted to keep his hard drive because ot had all his work and music on it. so i bought my self a SATA hard drive. when it arrived i conected the hard drive useing the SATA port on the mother boad. when i booted the pc up with the hard drive attached and inserted the xp disk, just befor instalation happend it gives me an message saying there isnt a hard drive attached. i dont no how to make the pc recognise the hard drive.

dai · 07-07-2006, 11:39 AM

is it a sata or sata 2 h/d and what does the m/b support
when you go to load windows you need to load a driver using f6 either a sata driver or a raid driver,read through your m/b manual to find the correct bios settings and what driver needs to be loaded

07-07-2006, 03:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
smadam Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Help Me Please i recently purchaded a pc off a friend without a hard drive because he wanted to keep his hard drive because ot had all his work and music on it. so i bought my self a SATA hard drive. when it arrived i conected the hard drive useing the SATA port on the mother boad. when i booted the pc up with the hard drive attached and inserted the xp disk, just befor instalation happend it gives me an message saying there isnt a hard drive attached. i dont no how to make the pc recognise the hard drive.

07-07-2006, 11:39 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,746 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	is it a sata or sata 2 h/d and what does the m/b support when you go to load windows you need to load a driver using f6 either a sata driver or a raid driver,read through your m/b manual to find the correct bios settings and what driver needs to be loaded __________________