Windows 7 does not see SATA drive

I just upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 and now cannot access the SATA drive that I use for storage. I desperately need help to access this drive.

Any help will be appreciated.

I've seen suggestions on the use of upgrade instead of the custom installation, but upgrade XP to 7 is not available.

It doesn't matter anymore that I managed to blow a capacitor on the motherboard and had to replace the guts of the machine. The new motherboard had no problem see the SATA drive. Of course, he can't see that the IDE drives so I traded one problem for another.

With all this, I made a whole new computer, which I'm sure that will soon show it's own set of problems.

Thanks for the help. And you can mark this resolved.

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