Gigabyte motherboard wont recognize new drives

[gianca401]

Hello,i made the mistake of installing win 7 beta on all my computers. as the beta is expiring i purchased 2 copies of win7 home edition upgrade.then i found out that ms does not allow downgrades to the beta.They truly suck and cause great pain.
now i am attemping to mount a new hard drive ti install xp and upgrade to win 7 but my gigabyte gama78gmds2h mobo refuses to recognize 3 differant known woking hd.this same machine once had 4 hd on it working fine.
i have installed a new 500 gb western dig hd as only drive and attemped to boot on xp disc to no avail also reflashed bios to no avail please help..gc

 

[sturm]

If they are SATA drives you will need to press F6 during xp install to load the SATA drivers first. Then the xp install should see the drives.

 

[gianca401]

thanks for the quick post
tried as suggested..bios shows a blank hole at sata port the new drive is connected to. the computer out of 4 different dives installed with varying cables known to work only recognizes the one drive that has win 7 installed?????????
been building computers since 386's and never saw this

 

[gianca401]

If they are SATA drives you will need to press F6 during xp install to load the SATA drivers first. Then the xp install should see the drives.

i think i posted my response as a reply