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Originally Posted by 03c0upe
My ide hard drive is no good. So i bought a sata western digital black hard drive 640gb.my computer wont read the sata hd. I have a kv8 pro mother board. Is anyone familar on how to fix this?
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when you say the computer won't read it, do you mean the bios doesn't even see that a drive is attached, or that the windows XP install disc doesn't see a drive?
If you're trying to install XP onto a SATA drive then you need to turn on IDE emulation in the bios, different manufacturers have different names for it. Otherwise you will need to load SATA drivers during the XP install using a floppy.