Serial ATA being recognized as IDE HDD

[mylogon]

Hi. I have a Samsung R60 + laptop, unmodified. It came with a 160gb S-ATA HDD, but it would appear that the laptop is only recognising it as a IDE HDD. This hasn't been a problem so far, but i have just tried to install iATKOS, which requires a S-ATA HDD and it cannot see the partition the i have created for it at all.
i looked into my bios to see if i could find any info, and i looked at the boot sequence, and i have:
1 - IDE CD/DVD
2 - IDE HDD
etc
etc.
Now, ive taken off the bottom panel and looked at the HDD and it clearly states that it is a S-ATA drive and the connections back that up.
This is really doing my head in now. All help will be appreciated. If you need anymore information on the laptop, i will try to find out as much as i can.
Thank you,
Luke

ps.
here is a picture of my HDD - if it's any help...

[homer]

look in your BIOS again, there should be an option somewhere along the lines of "recognize SATA HD's as IDE".

[mylogon]

heh. i looked in my bios and had no such luck, so i went to restart and 'Bootmgr' is missing. for some reason theres no repair button on my installation, so im on with reinstalling windows... bugger

[patio]

This is still puzzling as the bootmgr has nothing to do with how it recognises a hard drive installed in the system.

[mylogon]

the bootmgr was a new symptom, but thats resolved now. still the burning issue of the IDE/S-ATA confusion. i read somewhere else that there is a thing called 'IDE emulation' that manufacturers are incorporation these days. any thoughts on the matter?

[patio]

There is no hash in SATA...S-ATA is redundant.
IDE emulation would depend on how old this system is...

[mylogon]

wow. nearly forgot all about this.
has anyone heard of any solutions for such a problem?

thanks,
luke

[Dias de verano]

There is no hash in SATA.

There is a hyphen though

[patio]

There is no hash in SATA.

There is a hyphen though

I appreciate you pointing that out...