Adding SATA drive to replace ATA drive

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I've installed (physically) a Samsung SATA drive. I entered BIOS and enabled
SATA with it set to BASE (?). Windows recognizes the nVidia SATA driver and
the SI SATA driver and their respective controllers but the SATA Drive is
nowhere to be seen. What else needs to be done? I want to get the SATA drive
going because the IDE drive is dying.
 
I'd love to, but it's not showing up.
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DL said:
You Partition/Format it in Disk Management
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Are you doing a Repair XP setup after installing the hardware? The reason I
ask is that I just helped a friend repair his system that has only 2 SATA
drives. The XP Setup process doesn't have native support for installing to
SATA drives. We had to obtain the SATA controller drivers (Intel ICH7) for
his Maxtor SATA drives, put the driver install files onto a floppy (also no
support for reading from a USB flash drive even though the setup 'guessed'
that the flash drive was the desired destination - got the free space
correct!) and use the F6 option so the setup process would obtain the
necessary driver. This was the only way we got the setup process to see & use
the SATA drive.
-steve

RealGomer said:
I'd love to, but it's not showing up.
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Then as 'foozer' says you probably need to do a repair install of win using
the F6 option to install the sata/raid drivers from floppy.
Your mobo manual will have the instructions for using a sata drive - it
varies by mobo and sata controler

RealGomer said:
I'd love to, but it's not showing up.
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Been there, done that. Rebooted from WinXP CD, hit F6, installed drivers from
floppy, rebooted. In Control PAnel, used Add New HArdware, pulled drivers
from same floppy. Both methods implied install was successful. Still no SATA
drive. I need to get it going soon because I'm tired of my PC locking up
solid.
 
Does your mobo/controler require you to configure the drive as JBOD in order
to be used as a single drive?
ie build a single drive array
Some controlers require this.
 
Refer to your mobo manual, it will state as to whether a single sata drive
must be configured as a JBOD array
If this is required it is done in the Raid bios - usually accessed via a key
combination just after the mobo bios post screen

It is also sometimes the case that a single drive must be connected to a
specific sata port.
 
Well, I figured out why the drive wasn't showing up. I found a power lead
with two connectors, so I used one for the drive. Today I decided to start
over and that was when I saw a tag on the second lead theat said "Fan Only".
I'm guessing that power lead was not putting out enough voltage to run the
drive.
So, Control - Device Manager sees the drive, as J. On boot, the Silicon
Image SATA controller sees the device. In the AWARD BIOS Advanced
Peripherals, only the IDE - ATA drives are shown. Windows XP SP2 itself does
NOT show the drive. Could the problem be how I formatted and copied the
drive? I used Ghost to copy the C drive, including the MBR.
 
I forgot to mention. When I used Ghost to copy the C drive, I selected
include MBR. In Administrative Tools - Computer Management, I set the drive
to Active. I noticed my other HD, set with two partitions, is marked as Page
File, not Active.
 
It's alive, Master. It lives! Unfortunately, I didn't at first realize it
because Windows "stole" the drive letter assigned to a shared drive on my
network. So I didn't see at first WinXP had taken a named network drive and
assigned it to a local drive until I noticed the disck size had gone from
100GB to 250 GB.
 
So I take it its all OK

RealGomer said:
It's alive, Master. It lives! Unfortunately, I didn't at first realize it
because Windows "stole" the drive letter assigned to a shared drive on my
network. So I didn't see at first WinXP had taken a named network drive
and
assigned it to a local drive until I noticed the disck size had gone from
100GB to 250 GB.
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All's well in Porkopolis. To think something as simple as making sure the
correct power lead was used. BTW - When I used regedt32.exe (sp?) as
suggested in the KB article, it opened the same app as regedit.exe. Or so it
seemed.
 
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