Hellwhore BC prog, you dont have to know the CMOS setup b4 you know what to do,let an error msg be your guide. Get ittt....
Yes, you would need to know the CMOS settings, since I'm fairly sure that is where the drive would be disabled, or the setting changed from the universal default of [Auto] which you recommend it be changed to. Unless you are actually referring to using the "HDD IDE autodetect" feature of many motherboards, which would be a flawed technique for many reasons.
It adds them to the Table as Drive type 47, and specifies the disk geometry explicitly. While this will function as long as the same drive is present, it will cause issues when replacing drives or swapping master/Slave arrangements, as the computer will now be accessing the devices using the wrong geometry. I've personally seen this cause an entire hard drives data to be corrupted. Additionally, since using the "Autodetect" feature simply uses the same information returned by the default [Auto] setting in the BIOS, it provides over using that option.
Last but most importantly, as specified previously, most autodetect options are related to IDE drives (since SATA, as far as I'm aware, has it's own PnP mechanisms), which should completely preclude any such recommendation.
This is almost surely an issue between XP and SATA, which was already rectified, by somebody who bothered to read and comprehend the entire post, and additionally was aware of the issues XP has with SATA drives:
Ah, SATA.
You may need to slipstream the motherboard SATA drivers into your Windows XP installation source and burn a new CD. Use nLite for this purpose:
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part1.html
Hellwhore BC prog
Awww, he gave be a pet name... I'm touched. Can't even be bothered to use the underscore or the full name even, which confuses me further. Was it intended towards me? Or his cat,Bee C. Prague? One can only guess...
Hmm. Bee C. prague is a good name for a pet, I'm writing it down... Oh, I already have. nevermind.
Another Squall? 
Squall will just use the
emoticon if he is angered, he doesn't give pet names.
