hey i just bought a 160GB 8mb SATA HD from seagate and i connected it to my comp and double checked all connections and settings, but my HD won't install. so then i ran the diagnostic software that seagate offers and it can't find my drive. i checked to see if it was getting power and it's powering up. any suggestions?You might NEED to load SATA drivers for your mainboard before Windows can see it. What version of Windows are you trying to install?

Did you get a SATA/RAID driver diskette with the mainboard?i got a SATA CD rom with my main board. and i can't install an operating system cause after the SATA cd RUNS the program and trys looking for a drive, NOTHING is found.Is SATA enabled in the BIOS?yes SATA is enabledIf you have an IDE drive in there try dis-connecting it and see if the SATA is detected by the BIOS...
patio. 8-)

p.s. What MBoard is this ? ?What mainboard do you have and did it come with a SATA/RAID driver floppy?Here you just check for master/slave in hard disk and place the jumper in master. And remove the jumper from cd rom or place it in slave in cd rom.

In bios go to standard cmos feature check whether seletion is automatic or manual. If it is manual try change it to auto then try againQuote

Here you just check for master/slave in hard disk and place the jumper in master. And remove the jumper from cd rom or place it in slave in cd rom.

In bios go to standard cmos feature check whether seletion is automatic or manual. If it is manual try change it to auto then try again

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Here you just check for master/slave in hard disk and place the jumper in master. And remove the jumper from cd rom or place it in slave in cd rom.

In bios go to standard cmos feature check whether seletion is automatic or manual. If it is manual try change it to auto then try again

Sam he is installing a SATA HDD...they don't use jumpers, except for Enterprise setups.

patio. 8-)