Asus K8V SE Deluxe SATA Question

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-- Paul --

Hi,

I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP
on it.

Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this
so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place.

The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives,
and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found.
It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine,
even though that too is a SATA.

I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA
disk thats plugged in

Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the
BIOS.

Many Thanks
 
-- Paul -- said:
Hi,

I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows
XP on it.

Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected
this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's
place.

The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE
drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk
found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots
fine, even though that too is a SATA.

I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new
SATA disk thats plugged in

Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the
BIOS.

Many Thanks
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you have the have the SATA drivers on a floppy disc and you therefore must
have a floppy disc drive.

when Windows is booting into the install prog look at the bottom of the
screen and it will say something to the effect of press F6 to boot from
floppy........this then loads the SATA drivers and the install will continue
on its way.

dj
 
-- Paul -- said:
Hi,

I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows
XP on it.

Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected
this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's
place.

The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE
drives,
and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found.
It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine,
even though that too is a SATA.

I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new
SATA disk thats plugged in

Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the
BIOS.

Many Thanks
Click to expand...

if windows boots from the 200g sata drive why don't you just put the 500g
sata drive in and use both drives the 500g drive for storage.

oy you can format 500g drive and copy contents of c: drive to it and if you
have partition magic you could make the partion on the 500g drive active
then reboot job done
 
darklight said:
if windows boots from the 200g sata drive why don't you just put the 500g
sata drive in and use both drives the 500g drive for storage.

oy you can format 500g drive and copy contents of c: drive to it and if
you
have partition magic you could make the partion on the 500g drive active
then reboot job done
Click to expand...

that's NOT what op asked.............
 
Yes Baby said:
you have the have the SATA drivers on a floppy disc and you therefore must
have a floppy disc drive.

when Windows is booting into the install prog look at the bottom of the
screen and it will say something to the effect of press F6 to boot from
floppy........this then loads the SATA drivers and the install will
continue on its way.

dj
Click to expand...

Thanks for your help.

I do seem to remember using f6 when I originally installed this system,
although it was about 3 years ago.

These SATA drivers, are they provided by the manufacturer of my new 500gb
HDD, or by Asus, who manufacture my K8V SE Deluxe mobo?
 
darklight said:
if windows boots from the 200g sata drive why don't you just put the 500g
sata drive in and use both drives the 500g drive for storage.

oy you can format 500g drive and copy contents of c: drive to it and if
you
have partition magic you could make the partion on the 500g drive active
then reboot job done
Click to expand...

Thanks for your help.
I need to reinstall XP as it's playing up. The 500GB disk added on for
storage would not therefore work and neither would moving the current
install to the 500gb and setting it as active.
What may work, perhaps, is if I format my current 200GB and then attempt to
install XP on that. As the system has no problem booting from this disk
that should work, unless, after I've reformatted, I can't boot from that
disk as I've overridden the driver or something like that ?#?!

Any clues on this?
Will the 200Gb be visable if I reformat it and attempt to then install
Windows on it??

Cheers
 
-- Paul -- said:
Thanks for your help.

I do seem to remember using f6 when I originally installed this system,
although it was about 3 years ago.

These SATA drivers, are they provided by the manufacturer of my new 500gb
HDD, or by Asus, who manufacture my K8V SE Deluxe mobo?
Click to expand...

they should be on the cd supplied with the MoBo, if not then they will be
available at the MoBo manufacturers site.
 
-- Paul -- said:
Thanks for your help.
I need to reinstall XP as it's playing up. The 500GB disk added on for
storage would not therefore work and neither would moving the current
install to the 500gb and setting it as active.
What may work, perhaps, is if I format my current 200GB and then attempt
to
install XP on that. As the system has no problem booting from this disk
that should work, unless, after I've reformatted, I can't boot from that
disk as I've overridden the driver or something like that ?#?!

Any clues on this?
Will the 200Gb be visable if I reformat it and attempt to then install
Windows on it??

Cheers
Click to expand...

if you can still boot into the 200g sata drive install partion magic and
reformate from there is will tell restart your pc or you can create partion
magic boot disks you did not say if you had a floppy drive.
 
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