hard-drive problem

I'm kind of new to this so bear with me; I recently bought a new SATA hard-drive for my computer with a K8T800 chipset.

The master hard drive has been working through SATA the entire time with the setting set to IDE instead of RAID in the BIOS.

However for some reason the computer just isn't detecting then new hard-drive, and when it's plugged in, I get an opaque WinXP loading screen before the computer restarts. When this drive is unplugged the computer functions fine.

I've read some things about RAID and am unsure whether I need it to use to SATA drives.

Thanks.

 

If your new hard drive has a Serial ATA data transfer interface, your BIOS should be set to reflect this....IDE is a totally different interface requiring vastly different data cabling and BIOS settings(but can be run in conjunction with Sata).
Raid is a seperate issue where data can be written to two seperate physical drives at once (Raid 0) therefore utilizing dual bus capabilities for effectively twice the speed. The BIOS see's the 2 drives as one!

http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/pc_sata_second_boot.shtml

Regards...