Re: ide disk not found on SATA port

thfc1882 wrote:
I hope someone can help me with this - my brother just bought a new
motherboard, processor, memory and case and has put it all together.

We've only now discovered that the board had 1 IDE port and he only
has an ATA HD plus a dvd drive and cd burner. So, he bought a IDE
to SATA adaptor so he could plug his ATA HD into a SATA port (of
which there are 6).

Here is the problem - the IDE HD already has XP installed so is his
boot drive, but it's not being recognized on startup.

Any clues what we are doing wrong or how to get the disk recognized
and booting?

All help gratefully received!

Is it recognized at all in the System BIOS?
If not - there's your issue - nothing to do with HP - and more than likely -
not going to work.

More information would be needed to troubleshoot - like the make/model of
the drive and make/model of the motherboard...
Although - to be truthful - if the motherboard is not recognizing the
drive - your problem most certainly is not a Windows XP one.

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