New SATA Drive not detected in Windows

Hello everybody, I'm am having a problem getting WindowsXP to detect my newly installed WD 250GB SATA Hard drive. I have all the latest patches/fixes/upadates and service pack 2 installed. The drive shows up in BIOS but when Windows loads up, the drive does not show up in My Computer. It's also not present in Disk Manager nor Device Manager. I have an Intel D865GBF mobo with integrated SATA controller ports with all the latest drivers installed. What could be the problem? If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.

SATA needs to be enabled in the bios.

It is.....

Anyone else???

You need to partition and format all new hard drives. Right click My Computer->Manager->Disk Management

Aren't you supposed to enter the SATA BIOS (even if you're not setting up a RAID array) before it is available in Windows ?

Like I said in my first post, the drive doesn't even show up in Disk Manager. The drive has already been formatted to NTFS. But Windows still does not recognize it.

How was it formated if Windows can't see it ? 3rd party utility ?

Yeah I ran Windows2000 install, it recognized the SATA drive without having to do the F6 thing. I then formatted the drive to NTFS. My XP install also recognizes the SATA drive.

So that's how I got the drive formatted. But when I have XP up and running on my PATA IDE drive, the SATA doesn't show up anywhere.

On my ASUS P4P800-E mb, my SATA (non-RAID) appears in XP Pro Devmgr as an ATA drive. No indication of SATA anywhere. The BIOS handles it through the ICH5R Southbridge interface. The drive operates as my boot drive, **BUT** it is running at 3.5 KILObytes/sec (per SISioft Sandra Standard).

In BIOS, I have the SATA configured as S-ATA (not P-ATA).

I'm still trying to figure it out. It still hasn't began to work.

Does anybody else here have XP running on an PATA IDE while having a second SATA hdd as a storage drive working properly??

Anybody???

How about taking the PATA out and seeing if the SATA is recognised. Then you could install Windows on that. When this is done you should be able to put IDE back set as the boot if so desired. Then go from there with what suits you.

I already tried that, the SATA drive still doesn't show up anywhere when running Windows on the PATA.

If you've taken the PATA out Windows will not be running on it.

I would like to have it so my system runs the OS from the PATA, and have the SATA as an additional storage drive.

I see that. This is your problem it is not working. It could be some conflict between the two. Maybe motherboard or the drives. I'm suggesting you remove the PATA, it can be put back and all will be as is. I was considering getting the SATA running, this will eliminate a duff drive for one. After it is found to be working you can put the original drive back and boot from it. Then if all is well and the SATA is showing up with partitions previously created, they can be reformated and you have achieved your goal.

OK well I tried all of that. The one and only thing is that when I run Windows XP Sp2 from my PATA with the SATA hooked up as well, the SATA does not show up in Windows anywhere STILL.......

Did you load the SATA drivers even though Windows was on PATA?

When I tried loading the SATA drivers that were on my MB cd, it said Windows already has newer drivers installed. I even tried the drivers from western digital's site, same thing.