bougt a samsung spinpoint F1 (1TB) but when connecting to the mobo it didn't boot.

specs
Gigabytre K8NS pro
AMD 3200+
1.5GB ram
WIN XP SP2 on 160GB IDE hitachi

Used a Hitachi deskstar 160GB IDE and a deskstar 500GB SATA for over a year no without any problems.
so I thougt I buy anorther HDD because I run out of space.

bought the F1 connected it to the mobo's sata0 silicon port, reboot.....and silence, no boot.

I have been changing SATA cablesand power supplies cabbles over and over.
but no boot until I unplugged the new spinpoint F1, now it did boot.

But the MOBO doesn't recgnise any SATA HDD.
I have just my IDE HDD and IDE DVD drive.

did some CMOS resets and BIOS confg chages but I can't get the SATA HDD to recognise by the BOIS not even the first one the deskstar 500???

now when posting it says SATA 1 and SATA2 no drives detected???
and it's keeping me asking about the RAID, I not using RAID.

I tried everything to get back to my old confg, I have noting changed in my OS just the BIOS, but even whit the BIOS in it's old confg there's no SATA HDD recognised???

anoyone familiar whit this problem,
I have been told that when using 2 SATA disks you always have to confg them in RAID is this thru??

Thanks a lot,

Have you booted into the raid bios. I have a different (older) board and the SATA's only register on the raid controller BIOS which usually pops up after the "classic" BIOS.

I reckon you don't even need to go into the BIOS's anyway. If you have an existing SATA drive you most likely only need to go into your windows disk manager (right click my computer click manage browse to storage/disks) and partition it.

If you do not get joy then try the raid bios and give the new disk a low level format.

Good luck

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