second hard drive not recognized by bios?

[joem40003]

MB is chaintech Mk8t890, AMD Athlon 64 3000 @2Ghz,  512 mb ram.  Windows xp Pro v2002  sp3.  Phoenix bios,  integrated perif--on chip sata enabled, sata mode --ide.  New hard drive is 2Tb WD20EARSSP.  Any ideas on getting my bios to recognize?  thanks,, joe

[truenorth]

Have you enabled the SATA port  where the device is plugged into? truenorth

[joem40003]

thanks truenorth--answer would be not that I know of--can you tell me a little more about how I might?

[Computer_Commando]

Bad cable, bad connection, bad drive.

[truenorth]

You need to enter your BIOS and usually i believe your SATA ports will listed under "advanced" and however many you have (SATA ports i mean) will be listed there. Determine which one your new sata drive is connected to (if your lucky and your already existing HDD is also a Sata and you only have 2 then it will be the other one). They are numbered from 0-X (X being the number you have on the MOBO) So if you have 4 ports they will be from 0-3. If in doubt enable them all and the only result at boot will be that any not occupied will denote no SATA drive found for those not occupied.On a Dell that i did this on there were only 2 available and they were numbered on the MOBO. Hope this helps. truenorth

[joem40003]

thanks for the help--I think I have an antique mobo  with no support and no way to upgrade bios--going to cut my losses and clone this one to a smaller sata drive on another machine--thanks again--joe

[Computer_Commando]

What size was the old hard drive?