OS doesnt recognize sata drive

[vr666dub]

This is my first post here so i hope its in the right place otherwise i appoligize in advance. MY PROBLEM:: So i just finished building my computer GIGABYTE GA-K8N-SLI, AMD 64 3000+, and dual 250gig Hitachi SATA HD's. I did the whole driver copy on a floppy and as OS setup is going hit f6 then s and the whole nine everything goes through fine until where it should ask me where to install the OS. Instead i get a screend telling me that no HD's were detected and to check cables and so on. Now BIOS recognizes the HD's because if i go into the f10 raid option they are both there but thats are far as ive gotten any help would be greatly appreciated. thanx in advance.

 

[Didou]

This motherboard has 8 SATA connectors. 4 are powered by the nVidia southbridge, the 4 others by the extra 3rd party controller. Make sure you have the proper drivers for the controller to which the SATA drives are connected.

 

[vr666dub]

No my motherboard only has 4 sata conectors all nvidia and i dowloaded the driver from gigabytes website for the nvidia sata controller and it still doesnt recognize my hd's

 

[Didou]

Is the SATA controller enabled in the BIOS ?

 

[vr666dub]

yes it is. so ive been messing around with it and once all of a sudden it worked it recognized both of my hardrives and it asked me where i wanted to install xp and when i looked at the first hd it had a partition and i deleted it cause i didnt know what it was and then it asked me to formatt the hd so i did it took for ever and wheb it was done the computer reebooted and now im back to the same problem what the hell is going on.

 

[vr666dub]

Thanx everyone i got it now.

 

[pankid_b]

The same problem

Hey Man,
I just wondering that how you get rid of the problems...cos I got exactly the same one now...could you please help me out? Many thank..