adding sata as slave to computer

[footfikinmasta]

I have a HP a250n as my desktop computer which has sata ports on the mobo. I have everything up to date on the computer including bios. I recently took my sata drive out of my HTPC, which has xp on it already and want to format it and use it as extra storage on my HP. So what I did was mounted it in my hp, plugged it into a sata port and 12v on the mobo and made it a slave HD with the jumper pin. Started up my computer and cant get it to recognize this drive at all. When I open up my computer it just shows my original drive, if I go under administration tools in disk managment it just show my original HD too. Did I miss something?

Thanks

[RJ]

Did I miss something?

Yes. You can't have done what you said you've done. There is no master/slave with SATA, so there are no jumpers for it.

PATA drives with SATA bridge have jumpers. . .but they're for something else and you shouldn't ever touch them. So, move the jumper back to its original position, and it should be fine.

RJ

[footfikinmasta]

so I take the jumper out then restart my computer and its all good? I don't have to wory about two xp copies ?

[RJ]

You can select from which drive to boot in BIOS. Set it to boot from the HP's HD, then it won't load the Windows XP on the SATA drive, so you can wipe it.

RJ

[footfikinmasta]

cool, I'm going to try that.

[footfikinmasta]

Worked, YOU DA MAN!