I got a new WD6400AAKS OEM hard drive today and had a question about installing this in my Dell XPS 400 as a second hdd. Since I've never installed a SATA hdd before (only IDE on my old computer) I was a little confused (the WD6400aaks came with no jumpers)
I plugged in my new hdd into the sata port in my motherboard, plugged in the power cable, turned on all the sata connectors in the bios to ON and my hdd is not showing up. When I was turning on all the SATA selection to ON in the bios, when I got to SATA number 3, the screen went black so I rebooted the computer and it said "no disk found, press f1 to continue" and after I pressed f1, the computer booted into windows XP home fine but my new hdd doesn't show up anywhere.
Are there drivers I need or something I'm missing here. Any help would be appreciated.
I plugged in my new hdd into the sata port in my motherboard, plugged in the power cable, turned on all the sata connectors in the bios to ON and my hdd is not showing up. When I was turning on all the SATA selection to ON in the bios, when I got to SATA number 3, the screen went black so I rebooted the computer and it said "no disk found, press f1 to continue" and after I pressed f1, the computer booted into windows XP home fine but my new hdd doesn't show up anywhere.
Are there drivers I need or something I'm missing here. Any help would be appreciated.