Previously my Western Digital SATA HDD had problem. I replaced a new WD3200AAJS one from dealer. I connected that HDD to one SATA port in my Gigabyte GA-8S655FX motherboard. The BIOS settings for SATA were set as below:

Sis Serial ATA Controller [Enabled] (available options: Enabled or Disabled)
Sis Serial ATA Mode [RAID] (available options: IDE or RAID)

After PC powered up. BIOS reported it detected the HDD.

However, as Windows XP Professional was running, I couldn't find the SATA HDD from explorer.

I used System Management Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management tool and forced it to scan new hardware but no new HDD found.

Also, I used Device Manager -> Drive icon and clicked to force hardware CHANGE scanning. Still no new HDD found.

Although there exist probability that the new HDD was faulty but I would like to ask what can I do further before I return it to the dealer for another HDD ?

TKS!

PS: My motherboard has 2 SATA PORTS. I'd tried both of them but the results were the same.
did you get sata driver floppy with motherboard?
And has the drive been formatted yet ? ?
Windows will not see it until it is.Quote from: Dias de verano on February 23, 2008, 04:35:38 AM

did you get sata driver floppy with motherboard?

And has the drive been formatted yet ? ?
Windows will not see it until it is.

Quote from: patio on February 23, 2008, 09:06:48 AM

And has the drive been formatted yet ? ?
Windows will not see it until it is.

Not related. XP can still recognize an unformatted SATA disk. Formatting is the next step.

Quote from: goo_lu3 on February 24, 2008, 12:30:05 AM

Quote from: patio on February 23, 2008, 09:06:48 AM

And has the drive been formatted yet ? ?
Windows will not see it until it is.

Not related. XP can still recognize an unformatted SATA disk. Formatting is the next step.

Source ? ?