How to made XP add SATAII HDD to hardware list

goo_lu1 wrote
Arno Wagner wrote
goo_lu1 wrote
Arno Wagner wrote
goo_lu1 wrote

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 ?

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

Driver installed?

I remembered last time I installed the replaced disk no driver need to be installed.

The driver is not for the disk, but for the controller on
the mainboard. The disk does indeed not need a driver.

Tks, Eric is correct, only changing Sis Serial ATA Mode [RAID] enables
XP to recognize the HDD. I read the driver manual, it said driver is
needed if I want to install XP or 2000 on the SATA disk. I wonder
without the driver, will the SATA disk performs as a real SATA disk.

Yep, like I said, that setting just affects how it looks
to the OS, not how it works at the hardware level.

Its only purpose is to avoid the need to load a driver to see the drive at the OS level.