Single sata drive detection problem

Ok here is my problem that I am pulling my hair out over.
I purchased k7n2 delta ilsr and a sata 10000 WD raptor drive yesterday.
I am trying to install the single drive in my system and the os will not detect the drive.
This is the steps I have been taking to no avail.
1.  On  boot up pressing ctrl f  to set up a stripe raid array (required even if there is only one drive)
2. reboot and boot to western digital data lifeguard tools and format the drive.  (This program sees the drive just fine and says its functional.)
3.  Reboot and set the bois to boot to os cd, reboot and run the w2000 cd and hit F6 when prompted.  Then it prompts me to install the promise 376/378 fastrack drivers which I do and it installs them.  then it leads me to the prompt to install the os and it says setup did not find any hard disk drives installed.
I have tried many variations of this to no avail, what am I missing?

I romoved the jumper in the jumper block with no change, the floppy drive installs the promise drivers fine, I d/l the larger file folders  for the promise drivers with no change.
the drive is attached to sata1, I moved it to sata 2 with no change.
The only thing I can think of is a bios setting I am missing, I cannot see the drive in the bios only when I boot to the wd utility.
My other thought is according to the mobo manual it says to fdisk and format rather than using the data lifeguard utility I am using to format.  I do not have the files to boot to dos, fdisk and format the drive.  I made a msdos boot disk in xp and transfered format and fdisk to the floppy but the command in dos does not work.  format ???? to where there is no drive designation.

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