Check and verify the manual or support website for your model#. Provided you have SATA ports, then enable them in the bios. I exclude any added SATA card. Depending on how your bios addressing this issue it maybe further enabled by using some "legacy" toggle or similar, wording varies from brand to brand. Also, any RAID setup may not support or is another area which may not support it. However, if you have XP as the OS, that isn't supported directly during an install, you need the "driver" during OS install, follows the <F6> prompt. If you have the factory install discs, then if SATA was part of the orginal setup, then I assume it should have been supported, etc.. Any other install you need to directly check whatver is being, since you didn't provide your full details in order to see what's what.
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Hello,
I have an IBM Thinkcentre 8173KVC. It detects IDE drives just fine. It won't detect the SATA hard drive. Is there a way SATA is disabled? The DVD drove works fine on the IDE. The SATA hard drive is not detected in the bios, or in windows setup. I tried different cables, different drives, etc. Please let me know of ways I can fix this.
Thanks,
Tanner

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