Installing SATA drive

[nocturnx]

I just installed a new sata drive into my pc. Im unsure of a couple things and wanted to check. After I installed the drive, I went into the bios and changed it from legacy mode to Native mode. There was also an option that said "S-ata always on" which was set to disabled and i changed it to enabled. Is that right? When I booted up it recognized the drive and said it installed it and then had me reboot. When I rebooted it was not showing the drive in my computer. So I went into the control panel, admin tools, storage, disk management and initialized the drive and then formatted it to create a partition. Is this correct?

[RJ]

The BIOS setting sounds correct to me. Native mode when using Win2K/XP, legacy mode with Win9x. Since you are using XP, native is correct.

then formatted it to create a partition. Is this correct?

Um, no. I believe you mean the correct thing, though, as what you described is not possible. You first create a partition, then you format it. (You can't format hard drives really, you can only format partitions. No partition, no format)

RJ

[nocturnx]

yea thats what i mean, what about the "sata always on" option?