Cant Get Computer To Recognise S-Ata Drive

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Hey all,

I knew this would happen, so I shoulda stuck with buying an IDE drive, but here goes.

Installed my S-ata Drive into the S-ata 1 slot of my motherboard (Asus A8V Delux) and suprise suprise it doesnt even know its there.

Anyway to get it working?
 
I assume it's just a slave drive? And you already have OS installed on another drive?

If so, load drivers from motherboard CD.

And check all BIOS settings.
 
Me__2001 said:
i think he's building his new PC so it will be the master
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Hmm, then it's up to Win XP install disk to find the drive, correct?

If so, it will be a BIOS setting, so RTFM and I'd guess don't have RAID as default setting.

But I'm not familiar with that board, so not really sure.

And maybe the RAID drivers have to be installed from a floppy disk during the setup (press F6). The disk can be made from motherboard CD.

If no floppy drive, bit of a stalemate, if that's the case :(
 
Flops is right, if the board has a RAID controller then the driver will need to be installed during setup before Windows can see the drive.

J
 
Techy said:
oh just read the last bit.

Put the drivers on a cd rather than floppy.
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Techy, does that work? Putting RAID drivers on to a CD?

I'd always understood Win XP setup will only find a floppy disk with RAID drivers on during setup.

I do hope you're right, as that's the only reason I keep floppy drives in my machines.
 
Sorry fellas, shoulda explained abit more:


Im not using the s-ata drive as a master, i have my ide for that, its just going to be my slave to games.

I've had a thorough brose through the bios and cant see any tel-tail signs about s-ata, ill have to check the mob disc right soon, ill tell ya what happens if i find owt.
 
Reef, I feel reall bad as I was one who said you didn't need the floppy. I'll dig through my Asus stuff again and see if I can suggest anything.
 
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