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Thank you for your reply, but in my first post I said...



So the drivers issue was tackled already... in fact windows setup is recognsing the disk and allowing me to create a partition on, and...

Another update...

I've attached the previous IDE Hard Disk, which still had Win XP on it, and booted from that (So a DIFFERENT Windows setup, I have as yet been unable to launch the OS off the...

An update...

says that

When Windows XP installation setup does not recognize the storage controller.
This is usually caused when the system is setup either wiht RAID or AHCI mode enabled. ...

Please hear me out before you redirect me to some other post as I've seen many of them and they're being told to do things I'm unable to do.

Ok so just this morning I bought a SATA III PCIe 2.0...