bios/os does not recognize sata drive

[waylnway]

Greetings
I have a 300gb seagate sata drive that I can not get the bios or windows to recognize. I have it plugged directly into the modstream 520 psu and into the asus sli premium mb in slot one for sata does it matter which slot it is plugged into? There is a dark blue and a light blue power connector on the psu does it matter which of these it is plugged into I have it in the light blue. I have 2 IDE discs running a dual boot system xp sp2 and x64. Any suggestions as to how to get this running would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Wayne.

[joeMan]

In the BIOS settings, do you have the SATA controller enabled and set to IDE mode?
if it is set to RAID or disabled then nothing is seeing it or recognizing what it is yet.

Also, within your OS's have you gone to START> Administrative Tools> Computer Mgt.> Disk Mgt. and introduced the drive to the OS?

[waylnway]

no I had not tried either of those. I will though thanks alot.

[waylnway]

I was just a little too anxious. If I would have explored the bios a little more thouroughly there is a setting for NV raid function, where there is a setting to enable Sata port 1,2 or 3,4. Thanks Joeman for explaining the OS info now the drive is up and running.
Sweet! :rock: :rock:

[joeMan]

You da man :rock:
Have fun.