New hard drive not recognised

Hi,

I had to install a new hard disk(Maxtor 500 Gb SATA), but cannot install XP (or Ubuntu), because the disk is not recognised. How can I make it recognised?

Thanks

If it is sata you need the sata drivers for it.
If it is an older system it may not recognize such a large drive.
We need more information
What kind of computer exactly? what type of harddrive was in it?

Does the bios recognise the disk?
What motherboard do you have?

The previous disk was a Maxtor 160 Gb SATA. It's a MSI K8T motherboard and the BIOS does not recognise the disk.

K8T Master2 FAR(MS-9130)
K8T Neo-FIS2R(MS-6702)
K8T Neo-FSR(MS-6702)
K8T Neo-V(MS-7032)
K8TM-ILSR(MS-6741)

5 flavours, 3 basic versions.

Can you see any of that data on the mobo?

K8T NEO and below that MS-6702 ver 1.0

So may be this one

but I think it is this one

Take a look at the pictures, which one matches your motherboard - they are different.

Downloads are here One of the bios updates specifically addresses the onboard raid and sata rom.... but download the latest bios and flash to that.

NooNoo, I think the pictures are the same, but I will have a closer look tomorrow and let you know.

Thanks!

A side-by-side for comparison purposes. Lower left corner has the greatest difference.

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Thank you, it's the left one (NEO FSR).

ok so this is the board click on the bios tab on the page to download the bios version 7.1

Downloaded it and put it on a floppy, restarted the PC, but then nothing happens?

Instructions for manually flashing are here:

http://www.msicomputer.com/support/BIOS_AMI.asp

Read carefully, ask questions if in ANY doubt.

Will do it, but just found out the floppy drive is not working properly (it's the PC of my kids.....). We'll continue!

You can flash in Windows, just don't use the live update!