Hard Drive Help

[tweakyapoc]

Hey guys!
I'm currently building my second AMD comp.

I have everything hooked up properly (so i hope)

The thing is is that my motherboard won't recognize the HD

It has an auto find feature for the IDE HD's but my HD is SATA and I can't figure out how to engage it.

When I try to Install Windows it tells me to connect a HD but it is connected in the SATA ports

Help?

[Cricket]

Post your complete system specs of this computer. List the parts by brand and model.

:) Cricket

[tweakyapoc]

MSI K8MM-V mother board
512 KVR Ram 400Mhz ram
256 KVR Ram 400Mhz ram
AMD 64 3000+
MAXTOR 60GB HD HD
Radeon 256Mb Graphics Card ( not sure the exact brand)

This is the HD from my old computer and it worked fine until I tried to build this one with it.

[Cricket]

Which version of Windows are you trying to install?

Did you read the motherboard manual to see if that motherboard needs the SATA drivers on a floppy disk so they can be installed prior to the OS installation?

:) Cricket

[tweakyapoc]

Windows XP

Yes your right, I found a SATA Driver Disk.

What would my boot order be

Floopy
HD
CdRom??

[jest7377]

as far as i know boot order would be
floppy
Cd rom
hd
but i think its up to you and you can always change it if you need to boot from a disc if you want to keep the way you had it