I recently decided to purchase a SATA H.D.D. as my boot drive, a 150Gb Western Digital Raptor. This is the first SATA drive I have attempted to install. This is what happened: I have two IDE Drives in the system, so I jumpered both of them to Slave. Next, I hooked in the SATA to the motherboard, put in the power, and put it in place - turned on computer. First thing I noticed, was that neither of the IDE drives were detected - but at that moment I didn't really mind. I put in my XP CD and waited for it to start. It does, it goes into the first XP screen (DOS, blue screen grey text, "to load RAID drivers press F6" menu). I then left to let it do its business. On coming back, it gave me a lovely BSOD. So I rebooted - however on that reboot, it simply hangs. Specifically it hangs after POST, immediately after "Detecting NVRAM" - I get a black screen with a blinking cursor. Tried rebooting again, same thing - tried removing the XP install disk, same thing. Next, I went into the BIOS to see if there was anything I could change there. Tried changing the boot order to CD-ROM, Floppy, HDD, so I could get a boot CD in there - does the same thing. Next, I tried changing the SATA connection on the motherboard, I tried all 6 slots, to no avail. Checked the BIOS again, made sure it was in Enhanced mode, it was. Tried disconnecting the IDE drives, nothing. After that, I tried seeing what would happen if i booted it with my old boot drive as Master. In the BIOS it detects the SATA and the Master IDE - but on booting into XP, it doesn't detect the SATA. So I am in the dark now. I can't get it detected to fdisk it, and when it is connected without my other boot drive it just hangs. Relevant System Specs: Motherboard: Asus P5K-E Memory: OCZ 1GB x 2 40GB WD HDD IDE 250GB Maxtor HDD IDE 150GB WD Raptor HDD SATA Any help would be much appreciated b1177

I have two IDE Drives in the system, so I jumpered both of them to Slave. Don't. but on booting into XP, it doesn't detect the SATA. You probably don't have the drivers installed. Or you're looking for logical drives, and not physical.

As Razor stated, don't jumper both the IDE to slave. The IDE and the SATA controllers are completely separated. Reconfigure the IDE drives as you originally had them. Pressing F6 to install the SATA drivers doesn't get it. You need to place the SATA drivers on a floppy disk and have that floppy in the floppy drive. That is how you install the SATA drivers. Posting N/A for your OS isn't helpful. If you don't have at least SP1 integrated into the WinXP install CD you will have issues with the 150GB drive. Look at the link below for information on why. http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm