Did the drive not come with a utilities CD? That would allow you to format
the drive. Also, if the drive isn't new, it may be in NTFS format. Which if
I'm correct, Dos can't see. (I'm half asleep here but I hope this helped)
"Avery" wrote in message
om...
I have been working with an ASUS P4PE motherboard with three ULTRA ATA
drives for about a year. No Raid. I just bought a Serial ATA drive and
am attempting to format it.

I connected only the SATA drive and booted via WIN 98 floppy. I'm a
little sketchy on what to do next. I think I'm supposed to run FDISK.
If yes then I receive the error "no fixed disks present."

I intend to install a single SATA drive on the P4PE, without RAID. I'm
not clear on what to do next.

Ultimatly I would like to run three ULTRA ATA drives and one SATA
drive, all non RAID. The manual isn't clear if this configurtion is
possible.

Thank you for any help.
-- Avery