You have to change the boot order in the bios to boot to the sata drives
first, that is what i had to do for the sata system i built about a year ago.

"Bill Ridgeway" wrote:

> On trying to install Windows XP doesn't detect the SATA hard disk drive.
> (CMOS doesn't detect it either).
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> I know the hard disk is working -or at least it is partially booting which
> is why I want re-install Windows XP. How do you persuade it that a hard
> disk drive is installed please?
>
> Regards.
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> Bill Ridgeway
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