New SATA HDD wont show in My Computer

I just installed a Western Digital SE16 750GB SATA hard drive into my
system and cant get it to show in my computer. Struggling through some
ideas I installed XP on the system and got it to boot. However, doing
so won't allow any of my other drives to show (Pioneer DVR a106, HP
1040d DVD, and two WD HD's 120slave & 40master)! This is a new build
and I had to upgrade to SATA from IDE because all of my old drives
were running IDE before I purchased two SATA/IDE converters. The
converters have been running smoothly on my DVD drives and the IDE
cable has been running on my HD's. On my first attempt I simply
plugged the new HD into the SATA on the Mobo and plugged in the power
cable. The OS recognized the drive but wouldn't show it it My
Computer. Device manager saw it and new hardware wizard found it. I
thought this was a master/slave issue so I installed the OS and made
my old HD's slaves. Still nothing. In fact now the PC wouldn't boot. I
would get to Windows screen and it would hang indefinitely. Here are
the configurations I can boot:

1. IDE: 40GB master, 120GB slave, and SATA converters: DVD's (Initial
config)
2. SATA: 750GB and SATA converters: both DVD's (this configuration
only worked once during OS install and now wont show the DVD's)
3. SATA: 750GB and nothing else (after install)
4. IDE: 40GB master, 120GB slave (what I am running now, system wont
see other components anymore)

I am new to SATA, so is there some configuration issue that I don't
know about? I would put my SATA HD as a slave but the jumper
configuration says no such thing about this. Ideally though, I want
the 750GB to be my main drive that runs the OS. What could possibly be
causing this?


PC
CPU: E6750
Mobo: P5K-e Wifi
PSU: PC Power and Coolling Silencer Quad 750W
RAM: 2GB Crucial Ballistix
GPU: Leadtek 8600GT
ODD: HP 1040d DVD-RW, Pioneer A106 DVD-RW
OS: Windows XP Professional

Thanks
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