Additional HARD disk, PC does not start.

I'm under a Dimension 9200 on Windows Vista Ultimate Edition.

I just bought a 1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green Power drive.  I plugged on one of the locations additional sata on the motherboard and pc market.  I have an IDE installed RAID card normally shows directly after the dell logo, and detects my old three disks IDE and their config raid which is fine.

Reference Dell also provided me with two drives of 320 GB in a raid configuration, using my C drive, which he would then normally detect.  However, when the new drive is connected it just displays an error message, something can not find bios.  I have not disconnected or changed their cables somehow.

When I disconnect the new drive again, the pc boots fine.

I tried to enter in the configuration with the drive connected to change the boot sequence, but it won't let me enter the configuration.  I can enter the installer without a connection, and I assured my normal C drive is the first boot drive, but it still does not work.

I'm not trying to add it to one of the raid configs current sport im, I want just that he's a player, I thought that it would be virtually plug-in, turn on, format and leave, but no luck!

Someone made me what I am doing wrong?

Message edited by BiggyG on 09/09/2008 13:39

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