Problem Reinstalling XP

[Kalub]

So today I got a nasty virus, and instead of just trying to get rid of it I just formatted my C: drive and then reinstalled Windows XP. Only one problem, even though my SATA drive is plugged in and detected by the BIOS it doesn't show up in Disk Management or My computer.

Well, Fuck....


So I installed Vista home premium, that came with my Mom's computer and lo-and-behold there it was just chillin in My Computer. So I formatted the drive again, and reinstalled XP. Then I went to my motherboard manufacturer's website and found nothing on the lines of "sata driver" ect, so I went and tried Western Digital's site and found nothing.

SO I was reading around on google and some random person stated that it might be because I've not upgraded to SP2/3; would that cause the problem? If not how the hell can I make XP find the drive, I know its formatted with NTFS and I know that it worked about 2 hours ago so what the fuck....

tl;dr: Reinstalled XP from an original disc from 2001, and now my sata drive isn't detected by XP, but is by the BIOS. Would upgrading the installation of XP to SP2 fix it, or is there more too it?


e: Oh and I tired changing the sata port on my motherboard to the second port, but no matter which its plugged into BIOS still detects the drive.

[Kalub]

SP2 didn't fix it

[Cortexian]

SP3?

Rick-Click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management, does it show up there? Vista and XP partitions are slightly different that's for sure, I busted for a copy of Acronis Disk Director back in the day, helps a lot with these kinda disk situations.

[Kalub]

Well it was working fine on XP before I got the virus, I'm thinking Vista converted it or something so now XP can't use it, but the only problem with that is I CANNOT REFORMAT THIS DRIVE it contains all of my school information, and a backup of everything from C: before I formatted it.

Here are some pictures of my BIOS
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6384/2a010c68d219ew5.jpg

That shows that the secondary drive is connected and detected.

More Info:

I have a regular IDE 20gig HDD running my installation of Windows; and nothing else. Then I have this Western Digital 150gig Caviar SE Sata drive that holds everything else.

I have an AsRock 775DUAL-VSTA motherboard, and I'm on XP SP3.

I'll see if I can dig up my copy of Acronis


e: Also, it won't show the drive in Disk Management of My Computer, so I'm confused.
e:e: Oh, hey guess what.... Acronis is .rared up on my SATA drive. :facepalm:

[Kalub]

Ok, well...


This being a completely fresh install of Windows are there any SATA drivers that I would need? I don't have access to the disc that came with the motherboard, atm, but I could look into getting ahold of it tomorrow. As of now, I'm going to try a trial of Acronis and report back here in a little bit.

e: Acronis didn't work, it only detects my small windows ide drive

[Cortexian]

You're making my brain hurt... I have no idea what's going on here, someone else take a stab...

[Kalub]

Well this morning I decided to jump back on to the Vista installer to see if it could see the 'invisible' disk, guess what, here it is:

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/1759/172bf928b259ym4.jpg

My question is, and its not against the rules since I actually own XP (CD\Key), is there a way I can download a rebuilt XP SP2 disk that has the sata drivers on it? I'm still thinking since I have an original disk from 2001 that its so old it doesn't know how to use sata..... but thats just me. I've never had this problem before.

[Kalub]

Well reinstalling XP for a third time did the trick. I'm calling shenanigans on the whole thing and going with the "don't ask, don't tell policy." Thanks for your help Freelancer :)

[Sunray]

See I had this problem with XP and my SATA drives. What I did to rectify it was turn off flash cache in the BIOS for Hard drive settings, seeing as XP can't utilise it and won't work with it. I don't know if your drives had that, but that fixed the issue for me, certainly.

But as you've managed to fix it, it matters not, just for the record. :)