please help, just been to aria and got a new hard drive and a serial controler card

plugged it all in but the hard disk isnt showing in my computer ?

i was sure that you didnt need two drives is this correct ?

any ideas what im doin wrong ?

cheers......matt

 

is there a boot disk with the controller card? if so when booting from xp setup disk, press f6 key( i think it is) to boot up the controller card. it will ask for the drivers for the controller card so put the disk in. then it should see the drive and continue to install windows.

 

you'll need to install drivers for the sata card m8.
should have come with the controller.

 

you should have gone to micro direct

 

why fookin micro direct ??????

installed the drivers but its still not sowing the disc in my computer

 

anyone else got any ideas or anything ?

the drive is there in device manager but it still isnt showing in my computer

doin my head in now

 

Have you installed the motherboard SATA drivers?
If not that's why it's not working.

 

If its a seperate controller card then the motherboard won't need drivers, the PCI controller card will.

You will probarly need to run 'diskmgmt' in the system32 folder of your windows install.

That will enable you to format the drive etc and make it visible to your windows install.

Hope some of this helps.

 

If the drive is shown in device manager then you need to partition and format it, assuming it's a brand new drive.