Can't install SATA Drive

My old EIDE hard drive died on me so I went and purchased a new drive. I noticed that my motherboard had two SATA connectors so I decided to go with a SATA drive.

I plugged it all in but when I turn on my computer the Windows XP installation doesn't recognize it and the BIOS doesn't give an option to select a SATA drive.

My motherboard is a K8T Neo from MSI. Heelllpp.

Yeah, there have been many times in that past that I've wished I had a floppy disk drive. The people who put my computer together were morons apparently. Every part in my computer has died except my RAM. My hard drive was only the most recent thing, so I imagine my RAM is next.

So naturally they wouldn't install a floppy drive.

And then they went out of business so I can't even complain to them or try to get some money back. So annoying.

ANYWAY, can't create a bootable CD. Only floppy disk.

Any other ideas? The software that came with my HD can't detect my HDD and just gives me instructions on how to install.

NOW, the nice thing about this is that I can just take this all back to Best Buy tomorrow and swap it out for a EIDE. It might be slower, but I've been using EIDE all my life, so maybe I wont notice?

That isn't to say you guys should give up yet though. I am sure a genius idea will come to one of you eventually.
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