Solution xp won't see sata drive, kt600a motherboard

Help xp pro, kt600a ata 6L200M0 drive xp won't see the drive -solution.

Ok..my system had a maxtor 40g parallel ide drive. I wanted to add a
200gig sata drive. Bios saw the drive, but xp did not.

Heres how I solved the problem using 2 methods. The first method, is
for adding the new drive as additional storage. The 2nd one is to add
xp system to it.

1. I installed the new Sata drive, and booted my system, hitting Del at
startup to check bios settings, to ensure the sata option was
operating. -note, you may have to change your advanced bios settings
to boot from CDROM first, then HDD-0. Then I booted the maxblast disk
that came with the system. It saw the new SATA drive, and I proceeded
to partion and format the disk.

Then when done, I rebooted the system, under normal conditions and
while the bios saw the drive, XP did not. Problems problems, and
headaces. Whats the solution? I spend 3 deays on google looking for
answers that any one could follow. Nothing found. I found a lot of
people having the same problem.. so heres my solution that worked
today, 26 Nov 2005.


2. With both drives plugged in, went to maxtor and downloaded its ultra
sata drivers program, and made a floppy disk.
Then I booted on my xp disk, and hit F6, and let it install the maxtor
drivers. after that, the old drive, 40 gig, booted and xp saw the new
200 gig drive.

Now you can do this next part seperatly, if you are starting with a raw
system, or just want to add a windows boot section to the additional
drive.

3.THEN, to get the xp to install on the new drive, I went to
www.ecsusa.com and downloaded all the kt600 files.. I unzipped the
filed to my D drive, in its own folder, and Upon opening the readme
file, it told me how to create an xp insall disk, by copying over 2
folders and one file. the Raid and Pride folders, and txtsetup.oem.

I did that. and turned off the computer, unplugged the 40 gig drive,
and rebooted on xp setup.

At that point, I hit f6 again, and used the VIA startup disk, and
wala.. windows XP saw the 200 Gig hard drive.. I proceeded to install
XP.