computer not regonizing my HDD

[DawnOfDoom]

Ok i have a self built computer with a SATA HDD. i try to install windows XP but it says it can find a HDD is there anything i can do in the bios to fix this. all the cables are connected correctly. this is a major problem.

 

[sPlAtOiD]

When windows starts to install you need to hit F6. It will prompt you to do this and you have to have a sata driver disk in the A: drive and then it will prompt you for the proper driver. I think you need two drivers .

 

[DawnOfDoom]

The problem is i dont have an A: drive all i got is a D: drive can i download the bios upgrade on a CD from my old computer and then install it while still in the bios? If so how do i go about doing so.

 

[AMDSCOrPiO]

there should be a setting in your bios where you setup your sata, mine says "Mode - " and if it is set to sata, change it to IDE

 

[DawnOfDoom]

I dont have one of those options can i update the bios by downloading a the file from the internet off my old computer and puting it on a CD and install it on the new one? I read up on my mobo and they have had a similar problem and they have a bios update to fix it. So can i put it on a CD and install on the new one?

 

[Trotter]

What motherboard do you have? If the BIOS is offered as an ISO you can burn an image of it.

 

[DawnOfDoom]

i got an ECS ELITEGROUP nFORCE 570 SLIT-A v5.1 Nvidia socket 755 ATX motherboard. here is where i found the bios update. ECS NFORCE 570 SLIT-A(V5.1) Bios v 07/03/06 - TechSpot Drivers
So what do i do?

 

[joshd]

can you not just borrow a floppy drive from another PC?

on the motherboard driver disc, there will be the SATA drivers. install them from borrowed floppy when installing windows.

 

[DawnOfDoom]

my mobo never came with a Floppy and i can borrow a floppy drive no prob my mobo came with a CD so is that it? so when windows is installing and it is finished and it asks me what do i want to do like continue to start windows or exit or repair. so when its got that up i just take the windows disk and i put in the mobo CD i got with it. right?