i just picked up my first serial ATA drive, i bought a compatible board a few years ago with hopes of someday installing a sata drive, well the time has come and i cannot get my board to recognize it. i have been using an IDE drive so i tried to change some settings in the bios to reflect my hardware but that obviously wasnt what i needed. are there any special steps, software or settings needed for this, i cannot find any corresponding jumpers on the board but the sata drive has plenty. thanks for any advice. i will restart now and go to bios to get positive settings for follow up responses, thanks. sorry not a good question asker. :twitcy:

is the drive to be slaved to your current drive or are you loading windows onto the new drive?

i have installed windows onto sata drives before. when loading read along the bottom of the screen about if you need to load 3rd party raid drivers. select yes and use the disk that came with your board. if you don't have the disk, then go the mobo manufacturer site and download the driver and put it on a disk. use that disk when prompted, browse to the driver and everything should work out.

Make and model of the motherboard?

Leave them SATA jumpers alone!

Let us know

This will be a bios issue, usually under intergrated periphearls ide set up, but this varies from mother board to motherboad after it has been turned on then there is no jumpers or anything to set up just plug and go (unless you were want to use some sort of raid)
If you still cant figure it out let us know what type of bios you are running (award dell pheonix) and I will try and assist further

its a foxconn mobo but i cannot find a model number anywhere.
im going to need to pull my video card i think, ill come back in a bit.

btw i want to use the drive cause it has legit windows, i have tried every setting in the bios i could think of, i read somewhere i might need to flash the mobo, if thats the case ill just buy a new board cause the last couple i flashed didnt work as well afterwords as it did before i flashed it. :laugh:

i just picked up my first serial ATA drive, i bought a compatible board a few years ago with hopes of someday installing a sata drive, well the time has come and i cannot get my board to recognize it. i have been using an IDE drive so i tried to change some settings in the bios to reflect my hardware but that obviously wasnt what i needed. are there any special steps, software or settings needed for this, i cannot find any corresponding jumpers on the board but the sata drive has plenty. thanks for any advice. i will restart now and go to bios to get positive settings for follow up responses, thanks. sorry not a good question asker. :twitcy:

Unfortunately, this is a Windows driver issue, Windows cannot see the drive unless a Sata driver is installed. You should read up on Sata / Raid driver for Windows
as it will give you some insight as to what is going on. In your bios, you should set your hardrive settings to Sata, do not set it to Raid. If you were doing a clean install of Windows, it would ask you during the initial startup if you need to install drivers to press F6 which you would do, then at a later point in the installation of Windows, it would stop and ask you to put your driver disk into drive A: and select driver. I don't know what type of hard drive you have but Maxtor will have a Sata / Raid driver software for download on their website. Others may have as well. You will have to get a compatible Sata / Raid drivers in order for Windows to see your hard drive and configure it so you can partition and format it.

its a foxconn mobo but i cannot find a model number anywhere.
im going to need to pull my video card i think, ill come back in a bit.

btw i want to use the drive cause it has legit windows, i have tried every setting in the bios i could think of, i read somewhere i might need to flash the mobo, if thats the case ill just buy a new board cause the last couple i flashed didnt work as well afterwords as it did before i flashed it. :laugh:The Legit Windows on your SATA drive was setup and configured based on the system it was in before, if the boards are very different (mainly the chipset, bridges and all) the chances are it will not work, it might load Windows and detect all the changes and even keep some old information that might cause headaches later on! or it might not load Windows at all! Even though there are ways around this, fresh install or even a repair install (both will need KEYS) would be better.

There is a way to take a drive out of a system with Windows on it, you basically remove all the drivers from the Registry then shut down, remove the drive and move it to it's new home.

If you happen to figure out the model, let us know so we can walk you through the BIOS setup.

Let us know.

its a foxconn mobo but i cannot find a model number anywhere.
im going to need to pull my video card i think, ill come back in a bit.

btw i want to use the drive cause it has legit windows, i have tried every setting in the bios i could think of, i read somewhere i might need to flash the mobo, if thats the case ill just buy a new board cause the last couple i flashed didnt work as well afterwords as it did before i flashed it. :laugh:

you shouldnt have to flash anything!!i have 10 years experience on pc's
if you have the disc that came with your motherboard,that disc will 100% contain any sata related drivers and bios upgrade utilites on it as well,
but i want you to try this first
start menu--->control panel--->administrative tools---->computer management--->storage--->disk management--in here you should see any hard drives connected to your computer-
you may have to format the new sata drive before it will be recognized in windows
heres is another thing to try if this is wrong....
if it is like you say and there is no spot for the onboard sata or for ide settings in your bios.then the easiest thing for you to do is unplug any other drives connected-including dvd/cd device,leave the sata drive hooked up,boot pc,go into bios,check the hard drive section,you should see it in there,if not just escape and let it boot,if defaulted first ,your bios should automatically detect it and try to boot from it--wether or not it boots windows correctly,is another issue,it should boot-if the drive has windows loaded on it

good luck

There is a way to take a drive out of a system with Windows on it, you basically remove all the drivers from the Registry then shut down, remove the drive and move it to it's new home.

Wouldn't mind a walkthrough or tutorial on that Sharam...if ever you have the time. I think a lot of people would benefit from a guide on how to proceed with a drive transplant.

In my experience, more than two or three different components from PC to PC and the transplant is a wash...

Actually, from what I`ve read in your posts, you probably have quite a few registry tricks to share...

Sorry for hijacking!

Regards,
zeke

Sure zeke, not much I can add that can not be easily found on the Web, but for this purpose, I first remove Enum with everything in it:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum

This usually works but then there are others such as:

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum

I never had to remove anything else but the first one and always think it is best to do a fresh install or at least a repair install if you have to keep your applications!

a fresh install setup to suit the system its running on,is always best

Unfortunately, this is a Windows driver issue, Windows cannot see the drive unless a Sata driver is installed. You should read up on Sata / Raid driver for Windows
as it will give you some insight as to what is going on. In your bios, you should set your hardrive settings to Sata, do not set it to Raid. If you were doing a clean install of Windows, it would ask you during the initial startup if you need to install drivers to press F6 which you would do, then at a later point in the installation of Windows, it would stop and ask you to put your driver disk into drive A: and select driver. I don't know what type of hard drive you have but Maxtor will have a Sata / Raid driver software for download on their website. Others may have as well. You will have to get a compatible Sata / Raid drivers in order for Windows to see your hard drive and configure it so you can partition and format it.Very true ... he says "i cannot get my board to recognize it" not clear if he is trying to see it in his already setup Windows on the PATA or starting fresh when he says he already has "legit Windows" on it!!!

It reads RAID or IDE in most systems I've seen.

you shouldnt have to flash anything!!i have 10 years experience on pc's
if you have the disc that came with your motherboard,that disc will 100% contain any sata related drivers and bios upgrade utilites on it as well,
but i want you to try this first
start menu--->control panel--->administrative tools---->computer management--->storage--->disk management--in here you should see any hard drives connected to your computer-
you may have to format the new sata drive before it will be recognized in windows
heres is another thing to try if this is wrong....
if it is like you say and there is no spot for the onboard sata or for ide settings in your bios.then the easiest thing for you to do is unplug any other drives connected-including dvd/cd device,leave the sata drive hooked up,boot pc,go into bios,check the hard drive section,you should see it in there,if not just escape and let it boot,if defaulted first ,your bios should automatically detect it and try to boot from it--wether or not it boots windows correctly,is another issue,it should boot-if the drive has windows loaded on it
good luck
True ... Disk management sees any drive but you don't need to format it to see it in the Explorer you do need to initialize it though... in Disk Management or with other utility and after you create a partiton and it has a drive letter assigned, you can see it in Explorer, no need to format to be able to see and since he already has Windows on it, it has been initialized, partitoined and formated already.

Windows will attempt to load in his case but what if he had it setup on a SiS based motherboard and going to VIA based or any other, do you think it would still boot all the way to Windows?

yeah sorry,not format,initialize--pardon me,been awhile since i had to do it :)
thanks for correcting me sharam

a fresh install setup to suit the system its running on,is always best
I agree...but we've all been in a situation where a transplant would be a feasible option.