cannot install to SATA drive

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New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First
Generation drive.

Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install
on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic
from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why won't
motherboard recognize the drive? Does it need a BIOS upgrade?
 
badgolferman said:
New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First
Generation drive.

Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install
on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic
from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why won't
motherboard recognize the drive? Does it need a BIOS upgrade?
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Latest BIOS? Floppy with SATA drivers?
 
badgolferman said:
New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First
Generation drive.

Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install
on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic
from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why won't
motherboard recognize the drive? Does it need a BIOS upgrade?
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Look in the manual at the BIOS settings. There's an option in one of
them to prioritize SATA.
 
Conor, 9/23/2005, 9:44:09 AM,
Look in the manual at the BIOS settings. There's an option in one of
them to prioritize SATA.
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SATA has been prioritized as #1. It will not recognize the drive still.
 
Derek Baker, 9/23/2005, 8:58:02 AM,
Latest BIOS? Floppy with SATA drivers?
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I don't know if the BIOS is the latest. There is a SATA driver disk,
but what good is that if the BIOS doesn't even see it, much less get to
the point where drivers are to be installed?
 
badgolferman said:
New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First
Generation drive.

Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install
on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic
from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why won't
motherboard recognize the drive? Does it need a BIOS upgrade?
Click to expand...

Does the SATA controller have a [RAID] BIOS? Have you initialized the RAID
array (even if only 1 HD, some controllers need this step)?
 
badgolferman said:
SATA has been prioritized as #1. It will not recognize the drive still.
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Is there an option to enable the SATA Boot ROM as there is on some of
the Abits?
 
John Weiss said:
badgolferman said:
New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First
Generation drive.

Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install
on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic
from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why won't
motherboard recognize the drive? Does it need a BIOS upgrade?
Click to expand...

Does the SATA controller have a [RAID] BIOS? Have you initialized the
RAID array (even if only 1 HD, some controllers need this step)?
Click to expand...

Well my first thoughts were "let's try to educate this person" but
..............
Firstly please forget all that crap about "showing up in bios" stuff
.......... that's last century stuff.
The bios shows hardware on the two IDE channels so why would a SATA item
show up?
It won't show up in bios utility or on the bootup screen AT ALL.
Treat your install as a SCSI disk.
Do the "install SCSI driver now" bit on start of install.
Until you change the old way of thinking it is pointless even asking for
help..................
Use Google..... there are countess threads explaining how to change your way
of thinking but you need to try it even if you think it's wrong.
 
Make sure you set the boot disk priority as sata in bios and also you must
ENABLE "RAID ROM"
I have the AN7, you should also have that option in the bios, "advance"
screen.
hope this helps
 
BruceM said:
John Weiss said:
badgolferman said:
New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First
Generation drive.

Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install
on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic
from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why won't
motherboard recognize the drive? Does it need a BIOS upgrade?
Click to expand...

Does the SATA controller have a [RAID] BIOS? Have you initialized the
RAID array (even if only 1 HD, some controllers need this step)?
Click to expand...

Well my first thoughts were "let's try to educate this person" but
.............
Firstly please forget all that crap about "showing up in bios" stuff
......... that's last century stuff.
The bios shows hardware on the two IDE channels so why would a SATA item
show up?
It won't show up in bios utility or on the bootup screen AT ALL.
Treat your install as a SCSI disk.
Do the "install SCSI driver now" bit on start of install.
Until you change the old way of thinking it is pointless even asking for
help..................
Use Google..... there are countess threads explaining how to change your
way of thinking but you need to try it even if you think it's wrong.
Click to expand...


Many items like this ???
http://www.hothardware.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=18&threadid=22321&enterthread=y
 
let me correct myself, Sorry about this. you must go in
intergrated peripherals
-Onboard PCI device
- ENABLE SATA ROM



Frank said:
Make sure you set the boot disk priority as sata in bios and also you must
ENABLE "RAID ROM"
I have the AN7, you should also have that option in the bios, "advance"
screen.
hope this helps
Click to expand...
 
Firstly please forget all that crap about "showing up in bios" stuff
......... that's last century stuff.
The bios shows hardware on the two IDE channels so why would a SATA item
show up?
Click to expand...

Because my clueless ****wit friend, on Abits I've HAD experience with,
with SATA it shows up as a third IDE channel and lists the drives.

It won't show up in bios utility or on the bootup screen AT ALL.
Click to expand...

WRONG.
 
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