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Kam
wonder are there any specail way to install SATA Maxtor
hard drive (new, clean installation for Windows XP
Professional).
hard drive (new, clean installation for Windows XP
Professional).
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peter
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp
after you press F6...you will be asked to insert the drivers disk
XP will install the drivers and continue with the install.
Make sure you have the right HD configured as boot device in your BIOS.
worked fine for me about a week ago
peter
after you press F6...you will be asked to insert the drivers disk
XP will install the drivers and continue with the install.
Make sure you have the right HD configured as boot device in your BIOS.
worked fine for me about a week ago
peter
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Bob Harris
I built a PC with Seagate SATA drives, but I imagine that
the genral procedure is the same for Maxtor drives:
1. If the SATA contoller on the motherboard (or add-in
card) is also a RAID controler, you will first need to
define a RAID array. This is done at the BIOS level. For
my ASUS P4S8X motherboard I hit CTRL-F when the POST
screen mention the Fastrack controller and Fastbuild
utility. Read your motherboard manual for more info. If
you have only one internal hard drive that will be easy,
one array with one drive in it. However, if you have two
or more internal hard drives, including mixed IDE/SATA,
then you will need to be more careful. By default my RAID
ombines two disks into one disk, also called striping. It
also can do mirroring. To get each disk in its own array
and not connected together, I had to use the advanced
options of the utility. I was not hard, but it was a
necessary preliminary step.
2. Once the motherboard sees the disk(s), you need to
prepare and format them. While XP can do this, I prefer
to use the progams that come with all major-brand disks to
have more control over partitions and formats. I also
chekc the disks before i load anything, even before XP,
using the tools provided by the disk manuacturer. For
Seagate these are called Seatools. For Maxtor they would
be Maxdiag.
3. Early in the XP installation look for a small message
to hit F6 for SCSI or RAID drivers. Even if your SATA is
not RAID, hit F6. Have the drivers ready on a floppy. A
CD will not work. The drivers do not come with the disk.
they come with the motherboard or the PCI add-in card,
which ever you have. If the driver file is too big to fit
on one floppy, it may be that it is not a driver file, but
a self-installing executable that will make the required
floppy. One tricky thin I found was that the driver
floppy had o contain more than drivers. it also needed a
file called OEMSETUP.TXT, which was alos provided by ASUS
in my case.
4. Other disk thoughts and cautions:
a. If the disk is > 128 Gig, it is not supported under
XP, unless SP-1 is installed and LBA is turned on. Also,
if the disk is > 128 Gig, some motherboards may not handle
it, or may require a BIOS update.
b. Some backup software will not work with SATA, or not
work completely. Norton GHOST works in DOS mode, but in
windows mode. Acronis TrueImage does not work in recovery
mode, but will still save images. I assume that in the
near future more low-level software will support SATA. By
the way, officially GHOST does not support RAID, but it
ork on some RAID controllers, including mine.
5. Once installed, an SATA disk is significantly faster
than an ATA/100 (plain IDE) disk. You will be pleased.
the genral procedure is the same for Maxtor drives:
1. If the SATA contoller on the motherboard (or add-in
card) is also a RAID controler, you will first need to
define a RAID array. This is done at the BIOS level. For
my ASUS P4S8X motherboard I hit CTRL-F when the POST
screen mention the Fastrack controller and Fastbuild
utility. Read your motherboard manual for more info. If
you have only one internal hard drive that will be easy,
one array with one drive in it. However, if you have two
or more internal hard drives, including mixed IDE/SATA,
then you will need to be more careful. By default my RAID
ombines two disks into one disk, also called striping. It
also can do mirroring. To get each disk in its own array
and not connected together, I had to use the advanced
options of the utility. I was not hard, but it was a
necessary preliminary step.
2. Once the motherboard sees the disk(s), you need to
prepare and format them. While XP can do this, I prefer
to use the progams that come with all major-brand disks to
have more control over partitions and formats. I also
chekc the disks before i load anything, even before XP,
using the tools provided by the disk manuacturer. For
Seagate these are called Seatools. For Maxtor they would
be Maxdiag.
3. Early in the XP installation look for a small message
to hit F6 for SCSI or RAID drivers. Even if your SATA is
not RAID, hit F6. Have the drivers ready on a floppy. A
CD will not work. The drivers do not come with the disk.
they come with the motherboard or the PCI add-in card,
which ever you have. If the driver file is too big to fit
on one floppy, it may be that it is not a driver file, but
a self-installing executable that will make the required
floppy. One tricky thin I found was that the driver
floppy had o contain more than drivers. it also needed a
file called OEMSETUP.TXT, which was alos provided by ASUS
in my case.
4. Other disk thoughts and cautions:
a. If the disk is > 128 Gig, it is not supported under
XP, unless SP-1 is installed and LBA is turned on. Also,
if the disk is > 128 Gig, some motherboards may not handle
it, or may require a BIOS update.
b. Some backup software will not work with SATA, or not
work completely. Norton GHOST works in DOS mode, but in
windows mode. Acronis TrueImage does not work in recovery
mode, but will still save images. I assume that in the
near future more low-level software will support SATA. By
the way, officially GHOST does not support RAID, but it
ork on some RAID controllers, including mine.
5. Once installed, an SATA disk is significantly faster
than an ATA/100 (plain IDE) disk. You will be pleased.