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Hi, forgive my poor terminology, I'm not too pc literate.
My pc is in for repair, so I took my old one from the attic. This has IDE connections. I couldnt see any SATA connection on the motherboard, so I bought a card which gives SATA outputs.
I followed instructions and installed in a spare slot on motherboard.

The small CD that came with it appeared to not work, so I searched online for drivers.

All spears ok and the yellow triangle is gone from device manager.
What I cannot do, is see my SATA drive that I connected to board.

Drive has lead and power connected

I do not understand what RAID is.

I have noticed that the red and green leds on new Sata card do not light.

Any ideas where to even start?

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Hello buddy, I see nobody jumping on this question so lets see what we can figure out here. I am going to assume you are trying to installl a hard drive in you older computer. First off raid stands for Redundant Array of Independent Drives. I don't think we need to worry about that now. If you have done something in bios to have it say you are running raid 0 or raid 1 or 5 please repost as to what it says. Just need a little more info. If it is a hard drive you are installing, was there one already in the "old unit". What operating system are you running? did you add a hard drive? or did you remove the old one to install the one you are having trouble with? Please repost
 
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Thanks for jumping in.
My current pc was failing (processor I think), so I dug my old Medion budget machine out.
Running XP home, has 2 DVDs, one HDD, card reader etc.
The drives are IDE I believe. Big flat ribbon cable and separate power plugs.

My broken pc had SATA connections, also running XP

I fitted a card to the spare motherboard slot. The card gives SATA outputs and possibly other o/p as well.
I was hoping to grab data of my SATA drive. I can cope with the old machine as it is.

Please let me know if you need more info

Thanks
 
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Now bear with me, you say it has an hdd installed already? and it is up and running? Like this article will say, there is just a tad more then pluggin' that baby in. so be patient.
http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/04/03/how_to_install_additional_hard_drives_in_xp/
 
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I've taken a look in disk management....it doesn't show up.
I can't work out if the serial ATA card is working correctly.


Shows up as a VIA RAID Controller and no yellow warning triangle.

 
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Ok, I just got off the phone with a buddy who still runs xp and had added drives. Yes we believe your card is not configured properly....this is an odd one. you had mentioned on you initial post that your drivers did not load or the cd "did not work". I find it hard to understand that the card could or would put you in a raid 0 configuration. That usually requires a fresh os install. Now, someone like sr-71 or retiredAF may jump right with a perfect solution, but all you diagnostics may help them as well. What is the name and part # of the card you installed? Heck it's sunday and this is very interesting....last question, the driver/software cd is xp compatible? because the next step is to go into bios and see if it is seeing your drive and how.
 
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Oh dear. Sorry for all the trouble.

Firstly, if I am going to have to format my SATA drive, then I best stop now. I thought I could retrieve data from it. I don't want to format it.

If I don't have to, then I'll gather as much information as I can.
The card is a non specific brand...made in China and all I could put my hands on.

It states 'plug and play auto selects IRQ & I/O address', supports PCI IRQ sharing, supports 32-bit PCI bus - specification 2.1, supports Re-mapping to legacy addresses, supports 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT4.0, XP, Linux & DOS

Has two independent SATA ports

I know how to get into BIOS, but haven't seen much in there that I understand :)

Also, there are leds on the card, neither of which I've seen lit
 
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Oh and the mini CD has Ver:SR2 written on it.

I believe the card shows up as VIA technologies, although this may be the driver I've installed


Dev manager has it as RAID controller 3249

 
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