Installation XP on K8V with 1 Maxtor SATA HD

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I have an ASUS K8V MoBo with an AMD Athlon XP 64 3000+ processor and a Maxtor
80GB SATA hard disk.

I want to install Windows XP Professional. How do I do this?

TIA

André
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I have an ASUS K8V MoBo with an AMD Athlon XP 64 3000+ processor and a Maxtor
80GB SATA hard disk.

I want to install Windows XP Professional. How do I do this?

TIA

André
(e-mail address removed)
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When I try to install XP, at the moment the installation really must begin, I
get the message "Windows can't find a valid hard disk". the only thing I can do
is rebooting, with the same result.

Thnx

André
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At the start of windows setup during a blue screen you are invited to press
F6 to install drivers.
From what you are saying, you may need to provide drivers for your SATA
controller at this point.
You can usually configure SATA to take the place of an IDE channel. Not the
best as it puts the problem off rather than fixes it.
The method should be documented in the manual or on your mobo CD.
I suggest you check for later drivers as well.
- Tim
 
André

I had the same problem, I installed on a Hitachi SATA drive. What you need to
do is be able to access a computer with a floppy. The reason for this is the
windows disk doesnt come with native support for SATA drives, drivers have to
be loaded to do this. Go here to find the drivers, I've included some basic
instructions from what I did and what the readme file says to do.

Also when you do your setup in bios make sure you have the SATA drive selected
as the second boot device. You shouldnt have any problems getting in to the
install process from here. Good luck

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=310

Download the zip file and extract it to a folder you can easly locate (the
desktop is usualy a good place).

Open the folder you extracted the files to.

(these directions are from the readme file you'll find in the zip)

Copy all files and directories of DriverDisk\SATA folder to a floppy disk.

Make sure following directories and files are copied into floppy disk.

A:\
\2003IA32
VIAsraid.inf
VIAsraid.sys
VIAsraid.cat
\Win2000
VIAsraid.inf
VIAsraid.sys
VIAsraid.cat
\Winnt40
VIAsraid.inf
VIAsraid.sys
\WinXP
VIAsraid.inf
VIAsraid.sys
VIAsraid.cat
Txtsetup.oem
VT8237


* Boot system from OS installing CD-ROM.

* Make sure VT6420 BIOS is executed by the system BIOS when POST.

* Press "F6" when OS installer starts running.

* Insert floppy disk.

* Choose the OS device driver wanted for loading.

* Install OS.

* Run setup.exe after OS is installed.
 
I ran a single SATA drive in my config.

Here's my final setup:

Win XP Pro
Seagate 120 on SATA1 port

in Bios (press delete at startup to access it)
ADVANCED
ONBOARD DEVICES
OnBoard Promise Controller [enabled]
Operating Mode [Onboard IDE Operat]

Only 1 of the three SATA/RAID drivers provided by ASUS on the download page

http://usa.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=K8V Deluxe

would allow Win XP Pro to see the drive in order to format and install the OS to it.

6420raid_210a.zip Version 2.10A Date 2003/10/22
Description VIA VT6420 (VT8237) SATA RAID Driver Package Version 2.10a WHQL.
OS Win2K / WinXP / Win2003

I used the create disk feature in the zip here to make the driver disk,
started my XP install, hit the F6 SCSI/RAID driver add,

(I know you're not making a RAID, neither was I)

and then followed the driver addition instructions.

The drive then appeared in the available drives list for installing the os.

After the O/S is installed, I get "VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller" in device manager
under the SCSI/RAID Controllers section.

***
I ALSO have a "RAID Controller" under the "? Other Devices" section. I have
disabled this item to prevent confusion for myself down the road.
***

Fairly straightforward -would be simpler if the manual was more clear about how
to do it.

If you're not RAIDing the multiple drives then I'd say this should also work for two
independent drives the same as for my one on SATA 1 and SATA 2

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I went with the via controller instead of the promoise controler, but it'll
work the same way.

You can download the lastest drivers for the via SATA chipset at
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=310
unzip them and put them on a floppy disk (theres a read me file that outlines
how to do it)

When loading windows, make sure the floppy is in the drive and when Windows
setup asks if you want to install a scsi/ raid driver hit F6. Windows see the
SATA controler as a scsi driver from what I see so this is why its listed as
such. It'll access the floppy drive and prompt you as needed for the correct
driver. From there its a normal install.

Its pretty straight forward once you realise the extra steps you need. Good
luck.
 
## Installing Win XP -SATA drive on SATA1 port:

in motherboard Bios
ADVANCED
ONBOARD DEVICES
OnBoard Promise Controller [enabled]
Operating Mode [Onboard IDE Operat]

As of this week (Feb 16th-22nd 2004) there are three SATA/RAID related drivers on the downloads page:

http://usa.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=K8V Deluxe

There was only one that would allow my installation CD of Win XP Pro to see the SATA drive. This driver is necessary in order to format and install the OS to that drive. The ASUS download file was:


6420raid_210a.zip Version 2.10A Date 2003/10/22
Description VIA VT6420 (VT8237) SATA RAID Driver Package Version 2.10a WHQL.
OS Win2K / WinXP / Win2003


I used the create disk feature inside the zip here to build the driver disk, started my XP install, hit the F6 SCSI/RAID driver add,

(I know you're not making a RAID, neither was I)

and then followed the rest of the driver addition instructions.

In the end, the drive appeared in the available drives list for installing the OS onto.

After Windows XP was installed, in device manager I get "VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller" under the SCSI/RAID Controllers section.

I ALSO have a "RAID Controller" appearing under the "? Other Devices" section. I have disabled this item (right click - select disable) to prevent confusion for myself down the road. I am not running a RAID and shouldn't need it.

more information about RAIDs:
http://www.redundantarrayofindependentdisks.com/

I have since been told that other people have had success with at least one of the other drivers where I did not. I have tried ALL three. The one I listed is the only one that worked for me.

In the end, once I knew what to do, the final process was fairly straightforward but it would be simpler if the manual was more clear about how to do it from the start. There is a FAQ answer that outlines something similar for the A7V600:

http://www.asus.com/support/faq/qanda.aspx?KB_ID=84897

If you're not RAIDing multiple drives then I'd say this process should also work for two independent drives the same as it did for my one drive.

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