[Old Rich]

Well . . that's one to put in the 'ol memory banks . . drives usually come jumpered for SATA 1 but I guess that got changed somewhere . . Thanks for the feedback

[HGWolf]

I have the KT600-a MB with an IDE 120GB HDD and am trying to install a second HDD that is a SATA 500GB Seagate. I have followed most every step that I can think of. I noticed that you said something about a jumper that made the HDD work. I have the SATA plugged into SATA 1 on the MB and the IDE is IDE 1 on the cable.

Can anyone help?

Here is what my PC is seeing
c drive and then all cd/dvd drives there are 2 of these
and then I have a FDD drive bay with a card reader for sim cards with 5 ports
so the pc sees drives D, E, F, G, H, I which is all the cd/dvd roms included.

[HGWolf]

I forgot to tell you that the pc isn't seeing the SATA drive

[Old Rich]

Does the drive show in BIOS?

[HGWolf]

When I go through the MB book that came with it I am not seeing the menu SATA mode listed in OnChip IDE Device menu. I do see IDE DMA is the first option so my best guess would be no.

I have the boot menu set to CD rom 1st, SATA 2nd, and IDE 3rd

I am not seeing anything on the MB that would indicate that there is a jumper setting to apply to enable the SATA Controllers.

[Old Rich]

Originally Posted by simpswr

Does the drive show in BIOS?

[TheOutcaste]

Originally Posted by HGWolf

I am not seeing anything on the MB that would indicate that there is a jumper setting to apply to enable the SATA Controllers.

The jumper referred to earlier in this thread is on the hard drive, not the MB.
There are two types of SATA drives, the original version often called SATA 1 that runs at 1.5GB/s and the newer ones that run at 3.0GB/s, often called SATA II. Some SATA 1.5GB controllers won't see SATA 3.0GB drives unless the jumper is set to force the drive to 1.5 GB mode

The hard drive should have a jumper diagram on the label.
This is an image from a seagate 750GB drive, yours should be similar
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/img/200...gb/diagram.jpg

Jerry

[HGWolf]

I must not be looking in the correct spot in the BIOS then if my answer didn't answer if the Bios is seeing the HD. Perhaps you can guide me to find the answer for your question then. I currently do not have the jumper on the HD as I wanted to run it at 3Gb ps but it looks like I will have to put it back in. Will let you know if that helps.

I went to BIOS/Standard CMOS
I went to BIOS/Advanced BIOS Setup
I went to BIOS/Integrated Peripherals

Is there anywhere else that I should look to see if the HD is there?

[HGWolf]

Originally Posted by simpswr

Does the drive show in BIOS?

OK. After adding the jumper back to the HD the boot up of the OS is now seeing a SATA channel 0 in the boot process but still now showing anything in MY Computer menu. I have downloaded ans run the 3rd option you had instructed the other person that was having issues.

I even burned it to a CD and tried to have the OS install do the work for me but it never sees the 3rd party drive only C drive and no other drives. I think I have missed something!!!!

[TheOutcaste]

It won't appear in My Computer until a partition is created and the drive formated, which you can do from Disk Management
Right click My Computer, then click Manage
Click on Disk Management. The new drive should appear with unallocated space, as does disk 2 in the image below. Right click the drive, click New Partition, and follow the prompts. The Disk Management help file has lots of info on the different options.

Jerry