xpost I recently added a SATA drive to my setup. Installation of the drive was cake. I booted XP from my other drive as usual, and the new drive was found. I partitioned and formatted the new drive with no problems. I decided I wanted to do a clean OS install on the new drive so I popped in the XP setup CD, etc. When I got to the partition selection for the install, my new drive was not there. Thinking I needed to specify a driver, I downloaded the ICH5R drivers from Intel. No luck... After further research I realized that the chipset on my mobo ONLY supports ICH5, which is supposedly one of the few SATA drivers on the XP setup natively. I've even set the jumper on the drive to operate only in SATA mode (opposed to SATA II). Still no luck on setup. Anyone have any ideas why I can't see the drive in setup? Thx

Set the SATA drive to IDE mode in the bios Setup. If your mboard sees the drive in SATA II mode, you do not need to force it into SATA mode with the jumper.

Thx, Tubes... There was not a setting in my BIOS to specifically set the drive to IDE. In the IDE Configuration menu there were selections for S-ATA(Default), P-ATA, and BOTH. I selected BOTH once and P-ATA once, got a blue screen dump when setup tried to start windows both times. I switched it back to S-ATA and it started up but of course still didn't see the SATA drive. Furthermore, there was nothing in the submenu for the drive (in the Third IDE Master spot) that was indicative of IDE/SATA setting. The BIOS is revision 1002 for the P5PE-VM from AMI. I'm stumped at this point. THanks for any further help!

During the install did you see the prompt on the bottom of the screen that said to press f6 to install sata drivers? Don't know if that's your problem but it was mine when I installed sata drive. Good luck

Thx, voltage... yep, I've investigated the F6/drivers route, and determined that my chipset (ICH5) is included in the windows native drivers. i.e. I don't need to install any third-party drivers. I actually tried to install the drivers for ICH5R but they didn't work (of course) since my chipset doesn't support RAID.

I looked at your manual. It would have helped if you had mentioned it was an Asus model and socket 775. I hate looking up Asus models on my main 98SE computer because IE 5.5 has problems displaying the Asus pages - I have to start up my secondary computer with XP Pro with IE 6.x on it in order to view the Asus pages properly. Try this. In your bios Setup Main Menu - IDE configuration Onboard IDE Configuration Mode - Enhanced Enhanced Mode Support on - SATA

If that didn't help (Bios settings and SATA) See pdf page 13 and after of of this including pdf page 20 and after for XP, 2000: http://www.intel.com/design/chipset... This may or may not apply - it is for SATA with RAID, but the AHCI mode stuff may be useful. http://www.intel.com/support/chipse... http://www.intel.com/support/mother... Pentium® 4 Processor-based Motherboards Troubleshooting Serial ATA / RAID Issues http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/res... Mostly about SATA with RAID. Serial ATA in the Microsoft Operating System Environment http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devic... Partial quote: "Serial ATA Emulating Parallel ATA Mode Controller Support in the Windows Family of Operating Systems A Serial ATA Emulating Parallel ATA mode controller can load and use parallel ATA drivers that are supported by Windows. By definition, all versions of Windows previous to Windows Server 2003 have Emulating Parallel ATA mode support."