Hard drives

[Hillyar]

Just for fun I'm trying (and it's trying me severely) to build a PC,. originally with salvaged parts where possible, but that proved out and all parts are new. It's completed now and when I came to load the OS Wins XP, all files went on OK, but when it came to setting up Windows, a message came up saying that it couldn't find a hard drive. Check all connections. I checked all connections and combinations, but still no luck. It's a new Seagate sata hard drive. Anybody, please, got any ideas for exciting my PC to find the drive? Hillyar.

[Cricket]

Please post the complete system specs for this computer. List all the parts by brand and model including the power supply. Thank you.

Cricket

[glc]

You probably need a SATA driver on a floppy. The only spec we need is the exact motherboard model.

[Hillyar]

Thank you Cricket and GLC.. Have now got a RAID driver from the motherboard support CD onto a floppy and all seems fine. The motherboard is an ECS K8 M860, apparently no longer made. Regards,Hillyar.

[Hillyar]

Well, all seemed fine - it made the right noises, showed the right pictures - but it wasn't, and wouldn't recognise the HDD again. Must have been somehow a one-off CD boot.
My real problem - I was trying to connect a Sata 2 HDD to a motherboard that only supports Sata 1
The answer - put a jumper on the HDD jumper pins, or install a Serial Ata PCI Card. Hillyar, Portugal.

[Hillyar]

Good Evening all.
Some how I've made my web site text very large and it has much blue colour in it ! I've tried all I can to revert to normal, but failed. Can anyone tell me please how I can get the web text size and colour back to normal ? Hillyar.

[glc]

Please start a new thread in the appropriate forum.