Hard drive dilema

[Dav1d]

I got a new 1TB hard drive at a nice price online, and when I got it installed, windows XP says it's a floppy drive, but I haven't even formatted it or anything yet. Odd.
Around 15 minutes after messing around in my BIOS to try to get my PC to boot from a Ubuntu DVD I had so I could format the HDD as NTFS, one of my old hard drives decided to die. It was on it's way out anyway, but I'm not exactly happy.. Although I've managed to salvage what I can, I can't format my new HDD properly and my C drive has around 519mb of space left. Any ideas on what I can do? I tried a nifty little program called "partition logic" to try and format, but it didn't boot. I can't remember what the error was exactly but it said it failed to load a certain file from the disc.

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H
New HDD: Hitachi DeskStar 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM - Ebuyer

Windows says it's SCSI but it's just SATAII..
Any help would be appreciated.. I've tried everything I can think of.

[Bastinka]

I was wondering where you went for so long.

Too bad I already suggested what I had in mind on Skype, sorry to hear it didn't work out after ~4 hours David

[ryland]

Do you have another computer that you can put the hard drive in to see what if that says its a floppy.

[Anticept]

IIRC SATA uses SCSI technology....

Also, XP doesn't understand SATA, you need to install the drivers for your SATA controller and chipset.

[ryland]

IIRC SATA uses SCSI technology....

Also, XP doesn't understand SATA, you need to install the drivers for your SATA controller and chipset.

XP does too.

[Solece]

Lol XP...

[Dav1d]

Do you have another computer that you can put the hard drive in to see what if that says its a floppy.

I haven't tried that yet, thanks ^^

IIRC SATA uses SCSI technology....

Also, XP doesn't understand SATA, you need to install the drivers for your SATA controller and chipset.

I built my brother's PC and that uses SATA II. I didn't have to install any drivers to use it then..
Come to think of it, I think I had to install some drivers for my SATA DVD burner.. I'll look into it. Thanks

Lol XP...

Really helpful. If you don't have anything helpful/nice/constructive to say, please STFU

EDIT: If this doesn't work out I'll just buy windows 7..

[Wodden]

If this doesn't work out I'll just buy windows 7..

You don't have to buy it. You can download and use it for free, until March 2010.

[nath2008uk]

I don't see the point in Windows 7.
Doesn't it take up more resources like Vista did?

[Dav1d]

You don't have to buy it. You can download and use it for free, until March 2010.

I'll have to buy it sooner or later..

I don't see the point in Windows 7.
Doesn't it take up more resources like Vista did?

I don't think so. If by resources you mean hard drive space, then yes. I don't think it uses up more RAM to run it though.
It runs faster and is more stable than vista anyway.