thanks, but the comp knows its there as it can see it in the bios when i try to select the boot up sequence i'll try to make sure that it is connected.
at first i thought it was because my mother board has four sata ports, two standard (black) and two raid (red) but switching over has made no difference.
also there is mention of fasttrak 378 driver which comes up as no bios installed for it?
and the problem is the xp boot up after you select enter for a fresh install thats when the message appears that there is no hard drives connected or drivers arn't installed
has any of this made any sense?
thanks for your time

ar now i did remove the jumber beacuse it's oem i couldn't tell what was master and i wanted to set it up as a single drive also i would format it if windows could see it but it doesnt seem to exist tried the check new hardware and that was no good
thank you for your support
have you ny other suggestions? :cry:

yea but i dont which jumper setup to put it on have you an idea?
there is no picture or notices on the label ethier?
arrrggh!!!!!!