Windows XP won't detect SATA Samsung

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I can see it during sata initializing but then nothing shows on windows xp sp1, I used SATA instead of SATA raid on bios; because I only have one sata drive, the other is ATA and is primary master right now, I only want to add this drive for storage pourpuses and not to install windows xp from it.

My HD Sata can be seem on device manage under the sata menu:
http://home.earthlink.net/~winuser9716/sata/hd_on_config.jpg

But when I go to My PC, nothing shows:
http://home.earthlink.net/~winuser9716/sata/not_my_pc.jpg

That 120GB is my ATA133.
 
This may seem obvious but have you formatted the drive in XP yet?
Right click My computer/Manage/Disk Management. Check if you can see it in there because if you can see it in Device Manager that's probably what it is.
 
yeap, second the previous comment, format it and assign it a drive letter.
 
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