I can't get windows xp to see a new Western digital SATA hard drive. It only sees it as a (properties of hard drive) a standard disk drive. In my bios it's under "third IDE master". Thers is no jumper on that drive. Config: P4 3gig HT, Asus mobo P4P800SE with Intel 865PE + ICH5, Maxtor 80 gig(slave) and a Western hard drive 160 gig SATA 2nd generation(WD1600JS) I did the Intel Chipset Software Installation utility ver 5.0.2.1003, provided on the mobo cd, which brings my Ultra ATA Storage controllers to version to 82801EB. This 82801EB is not compatible with ANY drivers i see on Intel web site. I don't want to do RAID with that drive, but maybe this is the part i'm missing to properly install this drive. I skipped F6 during installation without being sure why(silly me) but even if i did it i wouldn't have had the drivers on floppy, since i can't even find them now. I don't mind starting from scratch again....but where and how can i install this drive so windows sees it as a SATA drive if i don't have any drivers. Thanks for ANY help;-) May the Force be with you!

Apparently you were successful with installing Windows to the drive. The properties of my SATA drive also describe it as a standard disk drive. If it's working -- and apparently it is -- then there's nothing further to do. You might also see reference to it as being a SCSI device, which is correct.

Since windows is detecting it as a "standard disk drive" it must be working. Can you take things on and off the drive? If so, what is the problem? If it doesn't see it at all you should go to Western Digital website and see if they have a driver for the SATA drive. I'm assuming this isn't the drive you installed windows on, correct? Build-in-Progress: NZXT Nemesis Elite Athlon 64 3200 Abit An8 OCZ EL PE Rev2 DDR400 X800PRO

Kevin; I think my problem is that i don't see any references to my drive being in Raid, from what i've read so far a SATA drive may be seen as Raid and run in SATA mode. This is my way of understanding that my drive take full advantage of it's power(300mb/second) instead of the 150mb/sec for Ultra ATA IDE drive. I know i won't get 300mb/sec, coz these are theoratical speed but nonetheless i would like to get the most of my drive. GamerMan4: Windows sees my drive...i did a fresh intall of windows on it. I just want to be able to make a SATA drive work as it suppose to work. Standard IDE drive max speed is 150mb/sec and i have a 300mb/sec SATA drive....i would like to be able to take full advantage of that drive. I know i won't get 300mb/sec transfer on that thing, but i can surely get more that 150mb/sec. May the Force be with you!

You won't even get 150mb/s. The most you will get from hard drives these days is about 70mb/s.

I did a SiSoft on it and got 56mb/s.....sigh!!! thought it would be higher than that....oh well!!! May the Force be with you!

To "do" a RAID, you will need a RAID controller. The Intel 801EB is NOT. It is the only morph in that series, the ICH5's all are ICH5R except that one. You can make it a RAID in software by going to the mmc and configuring it as such. I suggest a RAID as that is the only safe way, the connectors fall off the SATAs, they are bottom-less! So, turn one upside down. Later,