Adding a SATA hard drive

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Hello,

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong, please? I'm trying to add a
300 GB SATA HDD to an XP Pro unit which already contains three IDE HDDs.
I've tried every way I can find to create and format any sort of partition
on this drive - and all methods have failed ('all' being DISKPART, Computer
Management in 'Control Panel ... Administrative Tools', Partition Magic 7
and Windows Explorer - where sometimes the drive appears, then it doesn't,
then it does again. All I get at the end of an attempt to format the drive
(by any method) is 'format unsuccessful' or words to that effect. SATA is
enabled in BIOS, and is set to IDE rather than RAID ... all I want to do is
to use the drive as a large scratchpad for video projects, formatted under
NTFS.

Any light that anyone can shed would be most welcome - I'm stuck, and
have been for a week.

Cheers,

Philip


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