See to it that your dvd/cdroms are recognized by the bios. Have you checked the jumper settings of your cdroms? Try to check in the bios if the ide controllers (primary and secondary controllers) are...

Does your computer detect the card own bios? The card bios will post or appear on the screen upon starting. You will need a floppy disk drive to install a card driver.

Try connecting it first in your computer. Set your new ide hdd as master in the primary controller and temporarily remove your sata drive then boot your system just to see if the bios detect your ide...

Be sure the ide hard disk drive is spinning. If not, try powering it up with different power connectors.

Check the ide hdd into another computer.

since your data in the hard disk was already lost, try to delete and format your hard disk, and install again winxp on it.

To make it easy, slave the new hard drive to the primary hard disk in the primary controller and the new dvdrw to the dvdrom in the secondary controller.

Did you flash your bios before? If yes, go back to the previous version.

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shyam_etrx: just google and you will find several helpul sites.

Okay... Glad it worked......

Set the bios in default settings and be sure the hard disk drive is detected in the bios. If not, try to remove the drive and install it again in its bay.

If the above did not work, your drive...

Remove the firewire driver, if any or remove it from the Device Manager. With the computer off and unplugged, remove and install again the firewire card. Let windows detect and install the driver.
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Change DMA transfer mode of your DVDrom and cdrom to PIO mode (Device Manager - IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers).

Install the game in different computer. Check what will happen.

Remove and reinstall...

Without your new drive installed, does your system run again without any problems?

Was your new drive provided with a "secure connect sata cable" from the manufacturer?

Jumper it by shorting...

Place or set the jumper cap to pins 5 and 6 in your new drive.

It's not your motherboard model. Download the Belarc Advisor program in this link.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html#faq

Post here the system model, main circuit board, operating system,...

Make sure the volume control is not set to mute or not lowered.

Go to Control Panel, Multimedia.and make sure the "Default Drive For Playing CD Music" corresponds to your DVD-ROM drive under CD...

I do not know what motherboard you have. Make and model of your motherboard, please? Make sure the sata controller is enabled in the bios.

If the problem persists, try replacing a sata cable, or...

Are the hard disk drives c and d both sata? But like you said the d:\drive has not yet been recognized by the bios. What you need to do is unplug and plug them again all the cable and power connector...

I agree with you... I got some ideas from you. I will try somewhat drilling holes on it someday.

ramjo is right.. Try "Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser" utility. Add some protection, put a password on it. But be careful..... always remember your password...

P.S.

Done that 2x before in two hard disks but all failed to partition the good side.

In addition to the above post:

Enter the bios setup first. Navigate and make it sure that both primary and secondary ide controllers are enabled.

I did that process before but sad to say I did not use the hard disk anymore after trying to partition the good side.

If I were you, do scandisk. Backup all your files first before anything else.

With the computer off and unplugged, open your computer case and be certain that the cable and power connector of the d:\drive are not loose, and snugly and properly seated to their corresponding...

The drive you are working now was formatted in ntfs before so fdisk recognized it as non dos partition. You should delete the non-dos partition in fdisk. Or use a disk utility from the drive...

Does the windows not recognize the d:\drive or else?

Meanwhile, start your computer in safe mode. Check if you are able to read the d:\drive and copy all your files.

Pick one Sata II data and power cable on this link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=sata+II+data+and+power+cable

Hope this may help you.

Not sure but it was a driver issue. You weren't able to install windows if you have a faulty hard drive. Remove the drivers or programs one by one until you find the culprit.

Okay, thanks also for posting your solution.

Try swapping or try other power connector. I am sure there is a loose socket on the part of your hard drive.

Maybe the power connector and ide cable are not properly seated in their sockets.

Yes, it is.

As far as I know, sata I and II are backward compatible but try to set your sata drive to normal operation mode (3Gbit/s). Remove the pin jumper in the jumper block.

If it still...

I think you don't have service pack installed in your system. Meanwhile, install service pack 2. Then go to disk management.

Okay. that's good. All is well.

If your motherboard supports SATA II. I think you did not set your sata hard disk drive at 300MB/s.

It is normal to have "Safely Remove Hardware" icon on taskbar.

So you have 2 hard disk drives, one 120GB sata and 500GB ide hard disk. How about your cd/dvd roms?

Okay, don't bother your sata anymore. Just concentrate on your new hard disk, set it as cable...

Okay, what I have seen in your setup were the following:

1. Your sata drive is your boot drive where the winxp is installed.
2. Your 120GB (attached to the last connector of the cable)...

Jumper or set your new drive in cable select settings. Don't use master or slave configuration.

Use the bundled burning software of your dvd drive.

Navigate to the bios. Look for the "On-Chip Serial ATA" settings I think it is under Features Setup Page and set it at "Enhanced Mode".

Hope this helps.