Motherboard with IDE connectors and no SATAs

[Guest]

I have an old motherboard with IDE and no SATA connector on the board itself. I bought a SATA card and installed in the PC and I got two SATA WD 500GB drives on installed. When I boot up the system it see the drives but when I install Windows Windows is saying that it can't find the drives. So how can I make this work? Will I need to buy a new motherboard with SATA connectors on it?

 

[Mekugi Ana]

I'm not sure about Vista or Win7, but if you're installing WinXP, you need to create a driver disk for the sata card (files and instruction should be available in the documentation/driver cd or the manu. website). The windows installer doesn't see the drives, because it can't talk to the sata interface card. Once you have the driver disk ready, you'll need to hit F6 or F8 (i forget which) when the installer asks to load 3rd party drivers during the boot process. If everything goes well you'll see your drives