Re: my Dell XP cannot detect my new Hitachi SATA Hard Drive:HELP

In article <bOD7g.6134$mX1.1106@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, beenthere
says...

"hunnnnnn" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:htD7g.40589$JV1.35197@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i own a dell Dim. 4600 pentium 4 proccessor CPU 2.40 Ghz, 800Hz.
bought a new harddrive: 250GB [Hitachi Deskstar T7K250] can be found
here:

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.f9b3189a2f2e122d92b86b31bac4f0a0/

when i boot up my computer after installing the new hard drive, i get
the following message :

diskette drive 0 seek faliure
SATA primary drive 0 not found
SATA secondary drive 0 not found
Primary drive 1 not found

i went to my disc management and see if i can format it, but it doesnt
appear at the bottom, just Disk 0: my original 40GB hard drive. i
was expecting a Disk1 as my new hard drive.....i have no clue why
it's not showing up. I'm guessing it's becuase the new hard drive is
a SATA, but...i do not know anything about SATA, except taht its
faster...so i dont kno where to go from here...

please help :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby:

Have you installed the SATA drivers ?.

And this'll help how exactly? It's not even being detected by the BIOS.

TBH, I'd be seeing if there is a BIOS update for the Dell.

--
Conor,

Same ***, different day.
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