[jack-o-bytes]

Hello everyone,

I have a fairly out dated computer which is a E-System Ei 314 with a Pentium 4 3.2GHz. It has only got 1 80GB IDE hard drive and 4 free 150 sata ports. I bought a nice new Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB with 8mb cache to fit into the computer. It is all plugged in but the computer doesn't recognize it. I have tried looking in the bios but cant realy find much about it. Any ideas any one?

Thanking in advance
Jack-O-Bytes

[computerguy1990]

check your device manager and go back through the bios and check to make sure its plugged in correctly or try a different sata port on the mobo

[jack-o-bytes]

OK I will have to try a different port and check it is all plugged in well. I will be back in a minute with the results. On the boot priority it only has IDE slave and master no sata but in another part of the bios it says about SATA Detection. I dont know why.

[zyper95]

Try to reinstall the chipset driver for your motherboard. Also, check if the bios of the motherboard is updated.

[jack-o-bytes]

Right the computer has now recognized that it has one there but it isn't coming up on the my computer screen any ideas? I have found it in device manager but it doesn't give me the option to do anything.

[maxmak]

hi. mak here,
well i suggest to check your sata cable, better you replace sata cable with the new one,

[jack-o-bytes]

I have sorted it now I had to go into

Right Click My Computer
Click Manage
Click Storage
Disk Management

And then I had to initialize the disk and format it.

Thanks for all the help guys.