Sata Hard Drive

[Niccie]

Help urgently needed, please
Firstly my apologies is this is at all difficult to understand, when it comes to PC's most of the time I know what im doing if I have the PC infront of me but I struggle with the technical computer jargon therefore im not very good at explaining what I mean.
Here goes anyway, im trying to change my Mum's IDE HDD to a SATA HDD but I am struggling to pick up the SATA HDD in the Bios, even when I leave the IDE HDD in and put the SATA as a second HDD I can still not pick up the SATA when PC is turned on, although it does then give me error code 10 on the VIA VT8237 RAID conroller in device manager. The SATA does not currently have an OS on it as it is brand new. as are the leads and cables im using. The IDE HDD has Windows Vista Ultimate on it which is also the OS im wanting to put on the SATA HDD as i know XP will not go on it unless I have the sata drivers on a floppy disk. I have had this issue with my own PC but can't recall how I resolved the problem as not exactly sure what is was I did, this leads me to thinking that its a settings or driver issue rather than a hardware one.
I hope I have provided enough information for to be able to advise me were I might be going wrong. Looking forward to hearing from you as already pulling my hair out and wish to have my Mum's upgraded PC up and running as soon as possible.
Many thanks for your time, eagarly awaiting your replies .

[Raptor]

Hi Niccie and welcome to Digital Forums!

Make sure you read the rules and don't forget to be pleasant as nobody likes an asshole

Enjoy your stay !!!

[Mickey]

You wont get replies here, this is the introduction section. If you read the Digital forum Rules you would have seen this

i will move this to a section where it might get help with.

[TotallyRandom]

hey wellcome to the forum

Code 10 Means the Device is not installed in windows.

If you are looking to put the XP on the new SATA Hard drive you will need the driver for the windows XP install on a floppy Drive. (from The VIA web site)

Boot to the XP CD Press F6 for additional RAID/SATA Drivers will then ask for the floppy.

Then The XP install will then see the VIA card/HDD then isntall as normal