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If u can open the cpu cabinet, check on the motherboard if u have a slot as shown in the left picture.. if it has, then u can connect the sata hard disk. if not ur motherboard only has ide connectivity.
Its dependaple on mother board is there sata port colored in RED at nearer to pci slot than you can attach up to 500gb of sat but you have to also expand your RAM as your HDD increase
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If your hard disk is a SATA disk then - The problem is that XP installation CD does not have a SATA driver, unless you have a SATA drive on a disk etc. and can install the driver when XP asks for a hard drive driver then, XP cannot detect the hard disk and therefore won't install XP. The FIX. Go into the BIOS and disable the SATA drive (enable IDE emulation), this will make XP think it is a IDE/PATA hard disk. Then you can install XP normally. When Windows has been installed then install all the device drivers (including the SATA driver), then shut down and boot up and got into the BIOS and enable the SATA drive.
IDE, also known as PATA is the older style of technology. SATA is the newer style.
(Parallel ATA Serial ATA )
The beauty of SATA is not only the faster speed, but if you connect a SATA cable (Data cable) to ANY SATA connector on the motherboard, BIOS will find the device.
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) will find the harddrive with the operating system on it, first. Then it will recognize that you have a second SATA harddrive also.
(BIOS looks at both SATA harddrives. When it finds the one with the operating system on it, BIOS will disregard the other SATA harddrive)
You have to make IDE drive as slave. For this put the jumper to slave in IDE drive. Possibility of CMOS battery is rare, but you can confirm it by checking your system time in BIOS. If system time is ok then there is no problem in CMOS battery and you need not to replace it.
Could be a problem with SATA drivers. Just try to disable sata support by entering bios setup if applicable. OR Find the drivers for sata device and install
Hello all. I have the same issue. My MB is 845G [P4 2.4 Ghz] and SATA harddisk I need to install is Seagate 250 GB Baracuda with 3.0Gb/s interface, I belive which makes this HD as SATA II. So for this motherboard should I prefer PCI cards which support SATA II over the supports SATA I [these are cheaper].
As far as I know and saw from asrocks website your motherboard does NOT have a SATA connector so the installation wont be possible without buying a addon pci sata controller card witch is around 10-30 usd or 10-20euro.
good luck and if there is anything else let me know.
If u can open the cpu cabinet, check on the motherboard if u have a slot as shown in the left picture.. if it has, then u can connect the sata hard disk. if not ur motherboard only has ide connectivity.
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