250 gb western digital sata HD

**creospace** · #1 1st Oct 2006, 01:38

SO i have a 250 gb western digital sata HD and I brought a serial ata pci host adapter.

I've got he hsot adatper working (i think) but i cnat seme to get it to talk to or recognise the HD.

Hardware is not my speciality I only do websites.

Any advice please what i do next?

Gary

**Hybr!d** · #2 2nd Oct 2006, 12:16

First things first... is the PCI card definatly working correctly, have you checked in device manager?

Dave.

**creospace** · #3 3rd Oct 2006, 08:25

Hmm whilst I dont' directly know what i'm looking for especially if it's missing my guess using common sense is that it's not there :(

I'll try replugging it in. The strange thing is when I first installed it windows picked up a 'mass storage device' as if it had found it.

According to the instructions it doesn't need a driver if using xp.

Gary

**Hybr!d** · #4 3rd Oct 2006, 08:29

Try unplugging the PCI card then boot up, then boot down and plug it in again then boot up.

Windows should pick it up.

**creospace** · #5 4th Oct 2006, 06:58

I think it worked, I moved it to another pci slot and all is ok. To be honest I didn't know about initialising a disk drive so I learnt that too.

Now I have lots of room for my media centre :)

Gary who's great with websites, databases and the like but not so hot on hardware :)

**Hybr!d** · #6 4th Oct 2006, 07:03

Good news mate, glad its working.

8)

**creospace** · #7 4th Oct 2006, 07:08

Yep, so thanks for the tip :)