Formating a Sata 160gb HDD

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i didnt know which category to put this in

Hello i have just bought a new graphics card for my computer but my mother board was not good enough to run it due to it didnt have pci express 2.0 in it so i went out and bought this bundle http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=228209

Then i noticed on the graphics card it said it needs a 500 watt power supply to run so i googled and it turns out 400 w is the real recommendation so i got a xpower 400w psu

then my HDD ide would not boot up from the drive so i got a Sata HDD 160 gb and hooked it all it up it now detects it all but still doesn't run and now the cdrom wasn't detected so i could not put the xp disk in and format the new drive

Notes:
the old Ide HDD already had windows xp formatted onto it freshly
ive tried booting up the computer up using floppy disk and USB but they both need CDROM (Which is not detected) to be found

 

[Zatharus]

1) If your IDE hard drive had Windows installed on it when it was on other hardware, then it will not work with your new build. You will need to re-install.

2) Do you see the drives listed in the BIOS? Most BIOS have some sort of display to show you what hardware is connected to which bus (IDE/SATA).

3) Which graphics card and PSU did you get? A little more information would be helpful.