Run a sata drive as main boot up drive. Xp on ide cant see new sata drive to format or install Windows 7?

so what is the 1st drive, and is it IDE or SATA.
or is one a
why are you using XP is it 32bit or 64? ill answer for 32..
its a dead OS,totally dead,and virus magnet and the MS PnP severs are shut down.
XP also MUST have the SP3 installed or the THING cant find any modern, SATA chips and many other devices.
im looking at your MOBO now,
it has 4 sata jacks
1 floppy
and 1 IDE jack let me guess this is what Drive one, IDE (pata)
is plugged in , then you add a new sata drive to the old sata ports
and XP pukesssss, as all XP does (cept mine)

SSDD. Same stuff different day,
so you can either use w7 like all savvy folks do
or find the driver missing that MS cant find, XP is dead.
but wait XP needs a Floppy drive to load the correct driver.
but if XP is running now, we dont need that only on XP installs.
ive no idea on what sata chip is there, in our shop
we scan it to find that and HP does not tell this.
Pentium D processor
Intel 945G Express
i think this is it , the 945G
load this driver from HP

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-compaq-dc7600-convertible-minitower-pc/472276

32bit

File name:
sp38488.exe (2.0 MB)

Try setting the jumper on the IDE hard drive to SL (ie slave).

If the new hard disk is a SATA hard disl then the problem is that XPinstallation CD does not have a SATA driver, unless you have a SATA drive on adisk etc. and can install the driver when XP asks for a hard drive driver then,XP cannot detect the hard disk and therefore won't install XP.The FIX.Go into the BIOS anddisable the SATA drive (enable IDE emulation), this will make XP think it is aIDE/PATA hard disk. Then you can install XP normally. When Windows hasbeen installed then install all the device drivers (including the SATA driver),then shut down and boot up and got into the BIOS and enable the SATA drive.http://www.fixya.com/support/r4335035-installing_windows_xp_sata_hard_drive

The problem is your computer uses a SATA hard drive and windows XP doesn't naitively support SATA. You have three options around this.

1. Go into BIOS and if you have disable SATA/AHCI and set it to SATA/IDE emulation mode
2. Download nlite http://www.nliteos.com/download.html and download sata drivers from intel's website and build your own windows XP disc and incorporate the sata drivers into it. Then use this disc to install.
3. Download VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/ and install XP in a virtual machine to run on top of Windows 7

Windows XP will go end-of-life in 2014 and then Microsoft will no longer make software that is compatible FYI.
Comment if you need any additional assistance.

Missing NTLDR file.
To repair missing orcorrupted system file/s, please click on this link and follow my instructions :-
http://www.fixya.com/support/r4482455-repair_windows_xp

The problem is that XPinstallation CD does not have a SATA driver, unless you have a SATA drive on adisk etc. and can install the driver when XP asks for a hard drive driver then,XP cannot detect the hard disk and therefore won't install XP. The FIX. Go into the BIOS anddisable the SATA drive (enable IDE emulation), this will make XP think it is aIDE/PATA hard disk. Then you can install XP normally. When Windows hasbeen installed then install all the device drivers (including the SATA driver),then shut down and boot up and got into the BIOS and enable the SATA drive.

Sorry, it sounds like your hard drive failed. It is either that, or your XP install CD has an error. If it is the hard drive, it is easy to replace. Take it to your local PC techie and he/she will put a new hard drive in for a lot less than a new PC. Check out eBay as the cheapest place to buy a replacement hard drive; there are two types of hard drives for laptops - SATA and IDE. Got to buy the "right" one.

ok get a windows 7 disk and turn of the computer and ad the hard drive switch on the computer and set it to boot from disk (seems windows is broken on the 500gb hdd) then boot from disk and install windows 7 to the 500 gb hard drive and set in the bios the boot select for the hard drive (if you use win xp more then make that boot primary) then go threw all the rigmarol of installing windows 7 to the 500 gb one and your done it will have bootable hard drives and will offer a choice when first switched on

If you mean boot from cd with xp pro during setup you will have the opportunity to format drive either fat32 or ntfs use ntfs
I have never done it but if you can do it partition your hard drive so that you can save personal file and programs on second partition then if you have to format drive again your files on second partition will not be lost

All you need is the hard drive manufacture's setup software. Flashing you're bios is not the answer. On each drive (SATA & IDE) is the name & model number. Go to the Mf's site & download the free setup software, tools & utilities. Most sites will list software you can download to creat a bootable floppy disk or software to creat a bootable CD. Run the software on the SATA drive. Than unplug the SATA data cable & connect one IDE at a time. Again down load the Mfg's setup software. Do the same for the other IDE. Disconnect the data cable for the IDE drives. Do a fresh install of windows. (DO not allow windows to format the drive)! Just install windows & the motherboard drivers. Than update windows. Durring reboot press & hold the power on button on the PC untill it powers off. Connect the two IDE drives. Check the pin settings on the IDE drives. Set AS; Primary IDE drive 1 as master with a slave. Set IDE two as a slave drive.
Check the bios Boot setting. Make sure the SATA drive is listed in the boot order. Save & exit the PC. Windows should boot just fine.

Good Luck!
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Mike