SATA HD not detected by XP

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Tom H

I am doing a new install with the following: Gigabyte GA-
81K1100, P4 2.6, Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120gig SATA, Radeon
9200, 512Mb DDR Kingston @ 400mhz. My question is how do
I get windows to recognize the SATA HD? during windows
set up it prompts me to hit F6 to install 3d party
drivers, which I have on floppy, but windows continues to
install to no avail. It then says that no hard drive
detected? duh. Any help out there?

Tom
 
More info please....

Is the drive formatted? Is the drive recognized in the
bios? Jumper settings? When you hit F6 to load the
drivers, at some point during the setup, prior to loading
the files to your drive, it should ask you to insert the
a disk in the floppy drive. Are you being prompted to
insert a floppy at any point? you should be... I know
this sounds silly, but you really have to press F6 before
the message disappears.

Anyway, once you get the 'insert floppy' message, it goes
pretty smooth.
 
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