Installed XP, but SATA undetected

[ski_utah]

XP detected my WD 80 gig SATA drive and Windows was successfully installed. Only problem is that the bios does not detect the hard drive. What do I do? Do I need an updated bios? Neither my sff or harddrive came with sata drivers, where can I go to get one (if that is the problem)?

System Specs
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Biostar 210p
Athlon 64 3000
512 mb
WD 80 gig sata

[PerfectCr]

XP detected my WD 80 gig SATA drive and Windows was successfully installed. Only problem is that the bios does not detect the hard drive. What do I do? Do I need an updated bios? Neither my sff or harddrive came with sata drivers, where can I go to get one (if that is the problem)?

System Specs
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Biostar 210p
Athlon 64 3000
512 mb
WD 80 gig sata

The BIOS will only see IDE devices. The SATA drive is most likely on its own controller, which can be viewed from the SATA controllers BIOS setup, which is different from the BIOS you access at POST.

Drivers are for windows, and you access the BIOS before windows begins loading, so that will not have the drive show up. The drive will never show up in your regualr BIOS.

If it installed and its working fine I would not worry about it. I assume the disk that came with the IDEQ has SATA drivers on it, but usually they are not necessary unless you have a RAID setup. With one drive, they shouldn't be necessary.