Greetings--

Hopefully not stating the obvious here,  but it is also necessary to enable the SATA channel in the BIOS/CMOS setup area. (At least it is on my Dell Precision Workstation 370.)

Paul A. Shippert
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Margaret Brent Middle School
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Thomas Mayer <[log in to unmask]>
> I just had the same issue. Go to the Seagate site and download the hard 
> drive installation Wizard. Worked great for me after I had been fighting 
> with "fdisk" (pre XP) for a while.
> 
> Tom Mayer
> 
> Donald DeWitt wrote:
> > Hello members,
> >
> > I need advice installing a second hard drive as a slave. I have a Dell 
> > XPS
> > 400 running with XP. I purchased a new Seagate 160GB Serial ATA w/NCQ
> > 7200/8MB from an internet company and a hookup cable from a different  
> > internet
> > source listed as SATA Serial ATA Cable – 36inch – Red – 1 Right Angle
> > Connector. I installed the drive and connected the cable to the drive and
> > the motherboard also connected the extra power plug to the drive. The
> > computer doesn't recognize the drive by clicking on "My Computer" also 
> > the
> > Add Hardware Wizard cannot find it. The drive did not come with an
> > installation CD or installation instructions.  Where do I go from here?
> >
> > Don DeWitt
> >
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