Previously my Western Digital SATA HDD had problem. I replaced a new
WD3200AAJS one from dealer. I connected that HDD to one SATA port in
my Gigabyte GA-8S655FX motherboard. The BIOS settings for SATA were
set as below:

Sis Serial ATA Controller [Enabled] (available options: Enabled or
Disabled)
Sis Serial ATA Mode [RAID] (available options: IDE or RAID)

After PC powered up. BIOS reported it detected the HDD.

However, as Windows XP Professional was running, I couldn't find the
SATA HDD from explorer.

I used System Management Tools - Computer Management - Disk
Management tool and forced it to scan new hardware but no new HDD
found.

Also, I used Device Manager - Drive icon and clicked to force
hardware change scanning. Still no new HDD found.

Although there exist probability that the new HDD was faulty but I
would like to ask what can I do further before I return it to the
dealer for another HDD ?

Tks!

PS: My motherboard has 2 SATA ports. I'd tried both of them but the
results were the same.