Just finished building a PC, installed XP, installed the SATA drivers from a floppy when the XP installation asked for them and the rest of the installation completed without a problem on a 80 Gb Samsung SpinPoint P80, SATA300. The PC boots up and everything appears OK. I then installed another hard drive - 250 Gb HGST (IBM/Hitachi) Deskstar T7K250, SATA300.
The Samsung is attached to the SATA 1 header on the A8N32 SLi Deluxe motherboard and the other drive to the SATA 3 header (the graphics card covers the SATA 2 header).
The POST screen recognises both drives. The BIOS also sees both drives (but it lists the Samsung as 3rd IDE Master and the Hitachi as 5th IDE Master). The Windows Device Manger also shows both drives and says the Hitachi is enabled and is working properly.
But “My Computer” shows only the Samsung drive.
Is there something really basic that I have missed to get XP to see the Hitachi drive so I can use it?
TIA