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>> I'm trying to swap a SATA hard drive from a defunct desktop into a
>> working desktop (Sony VAIO VGC-RA840G) that has no hard drive. The
>> defunct computer and its hard drive have been sitting in a basement
>> for about 2 years collecting dust.
>>
>> After installing the drive according to instructions from the Sony
>> website, the BIOS only shows the 2 DVD drives being detected.
>>
>> Primary IDE Master [Sony DVD RW D]
>> Primary IDE Slave [HL-DT-STDVD-ROM]
>>
>> The Hardware tab of the BIOS shows:
>>
>> SCSI-0: ST3160023A5
>>
>> which is the correct model of the newly installed 160 GB hard drive.
>>
>> The overall installation was easy. I've never installed a hard drive
>> before so I'm wondering if I missed setting something properly. I
>> noticed a set of jumper pins on the hard drive but there was no
>> plastic jumper on them to set as Master, Slave, or Select, and I've
>> read that SATA drives don't need to be jumpered anyway.
>>
>> Any help with troubleshooting this issue will be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>
>If it's how you say in the first part of your post, the error
>upon boot would be that there is no boot drive detected (or
>something like that). Is that what happens?

I think so.

>Or does it start
>to boot but Windows fails to load because all of the Windows
>drivers installed on that drive don't work with all the new
>and different hardware?

There's no boot because there's no operating system installed. Right
now I just want the drive to be detected so I can install Win XP MCE
from a boot CD.