Urgent question (building system as i type)

[Trekster]

Hi

I'm in the middle of building a new computer. The two components in question are:

NF7-S V.20
Maxtor 120gb SATA drive

So, I start up the computer, but my BIOS and Windows installation both don't detect the HDD.

I didn't touch the jumpers once I got the drive, and connected it to the SATA 1 connector on the mobo, but still nothing.

Any help/suggestions you guys can give me would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Talonz]

Is the drive spinning up?

 

[punisher]

Set Primary Boot Device to SATA and see what happens.

 

[Trekster]

Originally posted by Talonz
Is the drive spinning up?

that it is

edit: i checked maxtor's page (http://service.maxtor.com/rightnow/images/maxtor_quantum jumpers.

this is my first SATA drive, so if somebody could explain "cable select" (noob question, i know) it would be helpful.

 

[djnes]

Did you hit F6 to install the SATA drivers?

 

[Trekster]

When it powers up there's a red and a green light right beside where the SATA cable plugs into the mobo. Could be insignificant, but it could also mean something.

 

[Trekster]

Ok. Now when it powers up, the hard drive is recognized by the bios/loading screens, but not by windows installation. When I insert the SATA Driver Disk all it says is "non system disc"

 

[Talonz]

The SATA drivers are on a floppy? You may need to install those during windows installation, but I'm not certain.

 

[lopoetve]

Sigh.

Set it to boot off of CD first
When cd says: Press any key to boot off of cd, do so (duh)
Hit F6 when it prompts you (at the BOTTOM of the screen) for any RAID/SCSI drivers
Insert the Driver disk
Point it there.

 

[Trekster]

Originally posted by lopoetve
Sigh.

Set it to boot off of CD first
When cd says: Press any key to boot off of cd, do so (duh)
Hit F6 when it prompts you (at the BOTTOM of the screen) for any RAID/SCSI drivers
Insert the Driver disk
Point it there.

lol, yeah, i figured that out without your wonderful step by step instructions, but thanks anyways

to everybody who replied, thank you, since you made my day a helluva lot easier. It would have taken me a quite a while to track down the problem.

ps. it was the SATA driver (hey, my first time installing a SATA drive)