New Hard Disc Won't Boot

The original 40GB hard drive on my Fujitsu Siemens desktop failed and I fitted a new 320GB SATA drive with a 3 port PCI SATA adapter. I have tried to partition, format and install XP Pro using the recovery disc that came with the PC. It seems to work OK until it gets to the stage where the CD attempts to boot from the hard disc. If I remove the CD at that point it comes up with "Operating system not found". If I don't remove the CD it justs starts again from scratch with the windows installation. I have an old hard disc with Windows 2000 installed and I tried putting that in the PC. It detects the new drive and can send files to it so it looks like the adapter card is working OK. It also detects the Windows folder and its contents. The odd thing is though, if I try to install 2000 on the new drive the Windows 2000 CD does not detect the drive. I'm told that it could be that the new drive is not being made bootable. I've tried the partitioning and formatting several times with the same result. I'm wondering whether to try formatting remotely from the Win 2000 system using DOS. The adapter card does come with a driver CD and a fairly unhelpful instruction leaflet. It talks about putting the driver onto a floppy disc so it can be installed during windows installation. The trouble is I don't know which files are the driver and the whole folder for my card is over 20MB so it's too big for a floppy. This might not be needed anyway. The card is also a RAID controller so the driver may only be needed if using the RAID facility.
Any advice much appreciated.

 

Sometimes in BIOS you have to choose to boot up with that particular drive.
Unsure if BIOS will be able to see the drive because of the PCI SATA adapter (theoretically it should though).

 

That may well be the problem. BIOS lists devices connected to the IDE ports but perhaps does not look anywhere else for drives.

 

The raid card may need the drivers installed during the windows setup by pressing F6 when the setup prompts for it.

Plus if you're using a recovery cd, that is most likely not an installation disk, but, just a cd to recover adamaged windows install and to restore it to factory defaults.

Unlikely but possible as I had to do this myself, If you have a WD or Seagate drive, you may have to use a jumper on pins 5/6 to limit the drive speed to 1.5 mb/s rather than 3mb/s, some motherboards like mine dont support the 3mb/s speed for sata drives for some reason.