Problems: New computer setup

[AL]

Having a bit of trouble seting up a new computer. All the stuff is in its right place, all is powered correctly (I think?), but the SATA drive is not being recognised. I ended up getting the Seagate 120GB SATA drive, as it was the only one they had.
I enter BIOS, and the only drive that is recognised is the CDRW. Apparently it doesent matter where you put the SATA drive, there is no master/slave thing. I have tried everything. BIOS recognises if I put in a different (older) HDD in, but the SATA drive is not recognised, and cannot be Auto-Detected. I just checked the Seagate site and they are talking about using Diskwizard 2003, and checking FDISK, or new drivers. I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone help?

Also, I have a copy of Windows 2000 Pro, how do I set this up on this new disk? How do I install an OS on a new system?

 

[David Lindon]

To install a new os you just insert the CD and boot from it. For the hard drive, I don't really know. Are you sure your board recognizes SATA?

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Yeah, Windows will talk you all the way through the installation.

Maybe the Drive is too new for the Motherboard? Or as David said the Motherboard just doesn't do SATA - personally I've never heard of it!

 

[David Lindon]

- personally I've never heard of it!

Serial ata.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Ah - never heard it called a SATA before?!

 

[David Lindon]

Ah - never heard it called a SATA before?!

That is because there are a lot of ATAs!

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Oh, oh well!