HOW TO DETECET SATA DRIVEES IN MSI MS-6799

The designers of SATA aimed for backward and forwardforward compatibility with future revisions of the SATA standard.[citation needed] To prevent interoperability problems that could occur when next generation SATA drives are installed on motherboards with legacy standard SATA 1.5 Gbit/s motherboard host controllers, many manufacturers have made it easy to switch those newer drives to the previous standard's mode. For example, Seagate/Maxtor has added a user-accessible jumper-switch, known as the Force 150, to enable the drive to be switched between 1.5 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s operation. Western Digital uses a jumper setting called OPT1 Enabled to force 1.5 Gbit/s data transfer speed (OPT1 is enabled by putting the jumper on pins 5 & 6). Samsung drives can be switched to 1.5 Gbit/s mode using software that may be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Upgrading a Samsung drive in this manner requires the temporary use of a SATA-2 (SATA 3.0 Gbit/s) controller while programming the drive.

The designers of SATA aimed for backward and forward compatibility with future revisions of the SATA standard.[citation needed] To prevent interoperability problems that could occur when next generation SATA drives are installed on motherboards with legacy standard SATA 1.5 Gbit/s motherboard host controllers, many manufacturers have made it easy to switch those newer drives to the previous standard's mode. For example, Seagate/Maxtor has added a user-accessible jumper-switch, known as the Force 150, to enable the drive to be switched between 1.5 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s operation. Western Digital uses a jumper setting called OPT1 Enabled to force 1.5 Gbit/s data transfer speed (OPT1 is enabled by putting the jumper on pins 5 & 6). Samsung drives can be switched to 1.5 Gbit/s mode using software that may be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Upgrading a Samsung drive in this manner requires the temporary use of a SATA-2 (SATA 3.0 Gbit/s) controller while programming the drive.

Good day,try to remove all hard disk, if not try to change the sata cable...thakns

Windows XP does not have embedded SATA drivers.
Please click on this link for instruction on installing Windows XP on SATA hard drives :-
http://www.fixya.com/support/r4335035-installing_windows_xp_sata_hard_drive

if you have SATA HD, and can you see the drive in the BIOS? if yes, good and let's troubleshoot. if no, and you've definitely connected (and tried re-connecting) data and power cables, the HDD could be bad.

if you see the drive in the bios then try to install windows vista or windows 7, because in some of systems SATA drives can not be detected by XP

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disable native sata support in bios and ur issue will be resolved.

I think this is your board, K8MM-V. The following is the link to all drivers and info regarding said mobo:

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=173

Yes it can support upto 2 SATA drives and 2 IDE drives.

Do you have an IDE hard drive fitted as well.
If so remove it as I have found out that unless setup properly IDE and SATA do not mix

try bios settings it may be set for a particular hard drive not yours and not on auto detect set for auto detect