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hi,
i recently bought hardware to replace everything in my pc apart from power
supply and case and floppy drive. i have purchaesd a SATA drive from micro
direct (well, i bought everything from micro direct lol), it didnt come with
drivers.

where would i get the drivers from and as i have 2 disk drives could i get
a copy on disk so i can keep the xp disk in the pc?

Thanks,
Richard
 
Confused said:
hi,
i recently bought hardware to replace everything in my pc apart from
power
supply and case and floppy drive. i have purchaesd a SATA drive from micro
direct (well, i bought everything from micro direct lol), it didnt come
with drivers.

where would i get the drivers from and as i have 2 disk drives could i
get
a copy on disk so i can keep the xp disk in the pc?
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The SATA drivers would have come with the motherboard or the SATA controller
card if you have a separate one, not with the drives.

I don't understand your last question.

Malke
 
i mean with the motherboard disk i have, can i use my old disk drive to load
it up when required during XP, while the new disk drive has the XP OEM home
edition disk in?
 
Confused said:
i mean with the motherboard disk i have, can i use my old disk drive to
load it up when required during XP, while the new disk drive has the XP
OEM home edition disk in?
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I'm so sorry, but you are still not making yourself clear. Are you asking if
you can dual-boot two separate Windows installations? If that is what you
are asking, the answer is yes. Naturally you will need to install the two
separate operating systems and have your SATA drivers on a floppy for each
install.

Malke
 
sorry for confusing you,
right, i have an oem XP home disk and a motherboard installation disk for a
clean installation with pratically a brand new pc.
i have two disk drives, so when go through BIOS and start the installation
with the XP disk in 1 disk drive. When promted to install the motherboard and
SATA drivers would i just insert the motherboard disk in the second disk
drive and it should read?

thanks,
Richard
 
Confused said:
sorry for confusing you,
right, i have an oem XP home disk and a motherboard installation disk for
a clean installation with pratically a brand new pc.
i have two disk drives, so when go through BIOS and start the
installation with the XP disk in 1 disk drive. When promted to install the
motherboard and SATA drivers would i just insert the motherboard disk in
the second disk drive and it should read?
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You don't install the motherboard drivers during the operating system
install. You install them afterwards. You do install the SATA controller
drivers (which will be on the motherboard driver cd) at the very start of
the operating system install. You will see where there is a prompt at the
bottom of the screen to Press F6. You will need to have the SATA drivers on
a floppy. It is ridiculous that XP requires the extra drivers on a floppy,
but there you are. If you don't have a floppy drive, borrow or buy a usb
one. Then put the SATA drivers on a floppy disk.

Malke
 
could i do that by using my dads pc and copying the driver files for the SATA
from the cd on a floppy?

thanks for your help,
Richard
 
i have just checked the disk and it only has an IDE driver and LAN driver and
another driver, would the IDE driver run the SATA HDD aswell?
 
Confused said:
i have just checked the disk and it only has an IDE driver and LAN driver
and another driver, would the IDE driver run the SATA HDD aswell?
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No. Does your motherboard have SATA connectors? If not, how were you
planning on attaching the SATA drives? If this is a new motherboard with
SATA connectors, refer to the manual that came with it and/or the
motherboard mftr.'s website for instructions about the SATA drivers.

Malke
 
i have SATA connectors (2), there is no info on the driver or installing SATA
HDD. It just explins what is on the motherboard and what can connect to it,
it also says somethings about the new BIOS but no info on SATA. i have
checked the website but no joy. I don't know what to do lol.

Thanks,
Richard
 
I rechecked the Abit CD and i have found the SATA driver folder but its
contents are just over 9MB, is there no way of using the SATA for
installation and install the drivers later? as the option of a floppy is not
good.

contents of folder SATA:
180OB (folder)
964_180 (folder)
965 (folder)
Floppy image (folder)
RAIDAP (folder)
Win98me (folder)
data1 (cabinet file)
data1.hdr (hdr file)
data2 (cabinet file)
engine32 (cabinet file)
layout (bin file)
setup (application)
setup (configuration settings)
setup.boot (Boot file)
 
Newer Motherboards need RAID drivers, not SATA drivers, on F6.
Settings need to be made in the BIOS setup. (boot order, drive order)
XP SP2 will pick them up as such,

Confused Student wrote:
|| i have SATA connectors (2), there is no info on the driver or
|| installing SATA HDD. It just explins what is on the motherboard and
|| what can connect to it, it also says somethings about the new BIOS
|| but no info on SATA. i have checked the website but no joy. I don't
|| know what to do lol.
||
|| Thanks,
|| Richard
|| --
|| Confused
||
||
|| "Malke" wrote:
||
||| Confused Student wrote:
|||
|||| i have just checked the disk and it only has an IDE driver and LAN
|||| driver and another driver, would the IDE driver run the SATA HDD
|||| aswell?
|||
||| No. Does your motherboard have SATA connectors? If not, how were you
||| planning on attaching the SATA drives? If this is a new motherboard
||| with SATA connectors, refer to the manual that came with it and/or
||| the motherboard mftr.'s website for instructions about the SATA
||| drivers.
|||
||| Malke
||| --
||| MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
||| Elephant Boy Computers
||| www.elephantboycomputers.com
||| "Don't Panic"
 
The cd should give you the option of creating a floppy for the SATA
drivers.....I suspect they may well be in this folder:

Floppy image (folder)
 
i thought that aswell but i got confused inside the folder as this is what it
contains:
964_180 (folder)
964plus180(181) (folder)
965_965L (folder)

and i cant find a makedisk.exe everyone says you use it to create the floppy
but i can't find one anywhere. (i have an abit SG80 and there is'nt anything
on the CD or on website)
--
Confused


Jane C said:
The cd should give you the option of creating a floppy for the SATA
drivers.....I suspect they may well be in this folder:

Floppy image (folder)
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What happens if you let the Abit cd autorun, as if you were going to
install, as opposed to browsing it? There may be a menu option on the
interface for the creation of the driver floppy disk.

--
Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation.
Confused Student said:
i thought that aswell but i got confused inside the folder as this is what
it
contains:
964_180 (folder)
964plus180(181) (folder)
965_965L (folder)

and i cant find a makedisk.exe everyone says you use it to create the
floppy
but i can't find one anywhere. (i have an abit SG80 and there is'nt
anything
on the CD or on website)
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tried it, there is only the options of installin IDE, USB 2.0 and something
else drivers, manuals (which don't help) and the utilities are acrobat, flash
and something else. other options on the auto run are a link to the website
(which also doesn't help) and an option to browse the CD.

im beginning to think abit is useless but of what i've heard they have a
good reputation. This is really starting to do my head in now as i can't even
create a floppy for the installation.
 
umm in the folder called SATA in the motherboard disk, it has loads of raid
drivers folders named as numbers which i named in my last post. can anyone
plz tell me what they mean?
 
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