SATA issue

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I have a 74GB SATA Raptor that I am trying to reformat. I unplugged m
other harddrive and put in the XP CD. When XP CD was starting up,
pressed F6 when it said to load the SATA drivers. Once it finished,
inserted the floppy and selected the correct driver. Then I delete
the entire partition, and created a new 15GB partition using NTFS.
also made a partition out of the remaining space using the same exac
file system. Then I selected the 15GB partition to install XP. I
copied all of the files and then restarted. When it restarted, it wa
like the drive didn't even exist. It wasn't recognized in BIOS, i
didn't detect it on the softmenu startup, and it keeps rebooting fro
the CD and trying to reformat XP. Any idea why after the restart (th
restart after i deleted, created paritions; copied xp files) m
computer won't recognize the SATA? I'm stuck in an annoying loop o
reformating and I can't figure out how to install the copied files o
my SAT

Thanks for your time in advance
Chri
 
ccdeepblue22 said:
I have a 74GB SATA Raptor that I am trying to reformat. I unplugged
my other harddrive and put in the XP CD. When XP CD was starting
up, I pressed F6 when it said to load the SATA drivers. Once it finished,
I inserted the floppy and selected the correct driver. Then I deleted
the entire partition, and created a new 15GB partition using NTFS.
I also made a partition out of the remaining space using the same
exact file system. Then I selected the 15GB partition to install XP.
It copied all of the files and then restarted. When it restarted, it
was like the drive didn't even exist. It wasn't recognized in BIOS,
it didn't detect it on the softmenu startup, and it keeps rebooting
from the CD and trying to reformat XP. Any idea why after the
restart (the restart after i deleted, created paritions; copied xp
files) my computer won't recognize the SATA?
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You sure its the correct drivers for that system/motherboard ?
 
I cant be sure. When I load the floppy for the sata drivers, it has
to pick from. I don't even know the motherboard model number - it'
been a while. But it recognizes the sata drive once the drivers ar
loaded in windows xp's format / repartition screen. Any ideas? Thi
is killing me
 
ccdeepblue22 said:
I cant be sure. When I load the floppy for the sata
drivers, it has 4 to pick from. I don't even know the
motherboard model number - it's been a while.
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Everest should report the motherboard model number,
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

Post that here, it may be obvious from
the motherboard manufacturer's web site.
But it recognizes the sata drive once the drivers are
loaded in windows xp's format / repartition screen.
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Sure, but may fail to do that on a reboot if its the wrong one.
Any ideas? This is killing me!
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Yeah, can be a pain in the arse. Gotta be fixable tho.
 
Rod, you are the man for helping me =

Abit AN
DUAL DDR SDRA
nForce2-U40
extrafeatures: abit microguru, softmenu, sata, rai

So i'm going to go find the drivers, copy them onto a floppy, an
retry it. ill be posting soon
 
In order to boot from the SATA disk, the BIOS has to be able to detect
its existence. Otherwise, it has nothing to boot from. Go into BIOS
setup and look for anything related to the SATA interface.
 
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