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Hi,
I have bought a new SATA hard drive but My problem is that the computer fails to detect it at all. The bios also complains and I have to hit <g> (for some reason) to enable the old drive to continue with the boot up. I have an Asus motherboard which supports SATA.
Any help would be appreciated.
The problem may be coming from a number of issues. it could be coming from the motherboard as well from the ide or sata cables inside your computer. call a technician, it would be the best solution instead of trying to repair it by yourself.
You will need to set this up appropriately to your motherboard using the BIOS and/or any RAID setup utility on the motherboard.
When you start installing the OS you may also need the controller drivers on a floppy disk to provide to the installer software. you should be able to get any required drivers from asus. please post model of motherboard here.
My motherboard is the Asus K8V SE deluxe. The new hard dirve - Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB S300 16MG - manufacturer code - WD3200KS didn't come with any software
Jumper pins 5 and 6 on WD hard disk transfer speed limited to 150MB/sec. That will be required for SATA controller (and BIOS) to recognize hard disk. It is a well known issue with WD SATA II hard disks and VIA 8237 southbridge chips. Your motherboard has an 8237 southbridge.