oh computer guys, mine is pissing me off

[632 Regal]

I used western digitals setup software, probably wont do a thing with sata systems and crap.

[winfred]

doesn't see the drive, i went to the web site and downloaded a fresh copy and it don't work ether, the bastard doesn't even run properly, when i click on the part where it gives you browser based instructions it takes a **** and kicks up a error box

[ryan roopnarine]

im seeing on the internets that you have to turn on the raid support on your mobo for sata to work, even though its not necessarily raid. trying to find you the no-longer existing driver to do this with.

[winfred]

i installed whatever raid stuff that was on my mobo's cd and nothing changed, i just checked add/remove hardwear again and since i changed sata ports i have a raid controller listed, going to reboot and try a few things

im seeing on the internets that you have to turn on the raid support on your mobo for sata to work, even though its not necessarily raid. trying to find you the no-longer existing driver to do this with.

[spyrot1]

You'll probably need a win2k driver for it to work. Download it and copy it a floppy, then when you install win2k press "f6" when it asks you to install to a differnet hdd location.

Better yet, upgrade to XP. It should have the drivers built in.

If the motherboard doesn't see the drive, then the drive may be bad or the motherboard needs a BIOS update to see it.

[ryan roopnarine]

here is via's sata driver
http://members.webleit.com/sonik/ind...lipVIASata.rar

install this.
move the sata to any other sata plug.
put this onto a floppy or cd. during boot, hit f6, and offer it the driver on the floppy.

tell us what happens afterward.

[winfred]

whats the correct way to burn that to a cd?

here is via's sata driver
http://members.webleit.com/sonik/ind...lipVIASata.rar

install this.
move the sata to any other sata plug.
put this onto a floppy or cd. during boot, hit f6, and offer it the driver on the floppy.

tell us what happens afterward.

[Fred Tyler]

Hi, I hope you have this sorted by now, but in case you haven't I would ask that you open control panel,
administrative tools, computer management, disk management, (often times at this stage windows will offer to install new disk) your new disk should appear in the bottem right side of that screen, clip on the disk and create new partition. once thats done you will need to format drive. You might also note that drive letters can be changed here as well , with the exemption of partition that holds o/s.
regards

[winfred]

tried it already not there, absent, missing....

Hi, I hope you have this sorted by now, but in case you haven't I would ask that you open control panel,
administrative tools, computer management, disk management, (often times at this stage windows will offer to install new disk) your new disk should appear in the bottem right side of that screen, clip on the disk and create new partition. once thats done you will need to format drive. You might also note that drive letters can be changed here as well , with the exemption of partition that holds o/s.
regards

[ryan roopnarine]

i'll be honest with you, i don't burn cd bootables unless i absolutely have to. i'll figure it out in 3-5 minutes and post a response. alls i know is that you'd have the same issue with xp, and windows 2000 is not for fruits, unlike windows xp.