New mobo won't see old hard drive

[jimm57]

HI All,

Just replaced my sons mobo with an MSI P965 Neo with an Intel P4, 3 Gig, and a gig of DDR2 ram. The shop I bought the  new stuff at put it together and made sure it worked before we left. I get home and install new mobo and hook up to old hard drive. The bios doesnt see the drive when I do an auto detect. Do I need to click on a switch or a jumper someplace? It sees the drive and the dvd on the boot, but comes up with no op system found.  So I called the shop I bought the board from. He said that I need to run the Win XP set up disk and maybe even wipe the drive. Windows doesnt like the old sys board, and cant recognise the new stuff? I cant even get the CD to read to the drive, dont get that far. The CD is set as the first bootable device, but we dont get that far.

Any help is mucho appreciated. Thanks, Jim

[757200ba]

HI, i dont know if it is the same problem but something similar happend to me.What you have to see is if there are 2 jumpers on the hard drive bacause one of them must be configuring that HD has a second master i know is strange but if you read the manual from your HD you will see.Before i changed mine the only thing that the MOB could 'see' was the secondary Hd and the cd roms.
Hope it helped, tell us if it worked
Cheers

[ozzy72]

It could also be that one drive is SATA and the other PATA (or if the other rig was seriously old SCSI, but somehow I doubt this). You can't run the two different types on the same cable. Worth checking what is written on the drives and also what drive types your MOBO supports.