A8V Delux and SATA - WHICH DRIVER :0( ???

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Rich Keeling

Hi all

I really hope you can help me out here. I'm trying to install Windows XP on
to my new machine. I have a single SATA drive plugged in to the SATA1 black
connector on the motherboard and a DVD on the IDE connector. I have no wish
for RAID or anything like that so I have disabled the Promise controller in
the BIOS. My problem is I have no idea which makedisk.exe to use from the
setup CD so I can install XP on to the single SATA drive. Can anyone please
give me basic step by step instructions and file locations etc to allow me
to do a fresh install?

Any help very much appreciated.

TIA

Richard
 
Rich Keeling said:
Hi all

I really hope you can help me out here. I'm trying to install Windows XP
on to my new machine. I have a single SATA drive plugged in to the SATA1
black connector on the motherboard and a DVD on the IDE connector. I have
no wish for RAID or anything like that so I have disabled the Promise
controller in the BIOS. My problem is I have no idea which makedisk.exe
to use from the setup CD so I can install XP on to the single SATA drive.
Can anyone please give me basic step by step instructions and file
locations etc to allow me to do a fresh install?
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Use the VIA driver. It's in the following directory on the CD.
\drivers\viaraid\6420raid\driverdisk\makedisk
 
KC Computers said:
Use the VIA driver. It's in the following directory on the CD.
\drivers\viaraid\6420raid\driverdisk\makedisk
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Hi, thanks for replying. I've done that and have a device in Device Manager
under SCSI devices (off the top of my head) an item called VIA RAID driver -
is this the correct one?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Richard
 
Hi Richard!

Rich said:
Hi all

I really hope you can help me out here. I'm trying to install Windows XP on
to my new machine. I have a single SATA drive plugged in to the SATA1 black
connector on the motherboard and a DVD on the IDE connector. I have no wish
for RAID or anything like that so I have disabled the Promise controller in
the BIOS. My problem is I have no idea which makedisk.exe to use from the
setup CD so I can install XP on to the single SATA drive. Can anyone please
give me basic step by step instructions and file locations etc to allow me
to do a fresh install?

Any help very much appreciated.

TIA

Richard
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Yeah, it says RAID all over the place.
But it's the the same only driver even if you use it as a single disk
(or two as JBOD) without using the RAID feature.

HTH /Ola J
 
Thanks :0)

Ola A Johansson said:
Hi Richard!



Yeah, it says RAID all over the place.
But it's the the same only driver even if you use it as a single disk (or
two as JBOD) without using the RAID feature.

HTH /Ola J
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