serial ATA drive install

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Bob Knight

I have a new motherboard/processor with no OS installed.
I bought a new SATA hard drive (Seagate 120MB). The HD
part number is visible on boot-up, but Windows XP install
program cannot find it. I have tried changing the boot
sequence up. SATA devices are enabled in the "integrated
peripherals" section of the BIOS. How can I make XP see
the hard drive?

Thanks in advance.

Bob
 
For most SATA drives you need to press F6 early in the XP installation
process and then provide drivers for the SATA controller on a floppy disk
(not on a CDROM). However, the message to do this talks about SCSI and RAID
drivers, and fails to mention SATA. Further, the message appears for only a
few seconds early during the installation process, and can easily be missed.
You obtain the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer. Thye are probably
on a CDROM (or floppy) that came with the motherboard. Of course, you
should always check for new drivers at the motherboard support website,
download and use those, if available.
 
Ditto. Couldn't have said it any more clearly. Once the
Serial ATA drivers are installed from the floppy, you
will still have to check the BIOS settings. On my
motherboard (Gigabyte) you also have to choose which type
of serial drive you're using, "Base" vs. "RAID". You
should choose "Base" if you're just using one hard
drive. Confusing, isn't it?
 
fyi: I recently installed a Maxtor 120gb SATA drive (and
Maxtor SATA-ATA/150 controller bd) and the driver did
show up as an SCSI driver -- OS was Win XP-Pro. The only
problem I had was that the MaxBlast3 config software
crapped out as soon as I'd try to run it, so the Maxtor
support people took me through the XP config process to
partition and format the drive.

-----Original Message-----
For most SATA drives you need to press F6 early in the XP installation
process and then provide drivers for the SATA controller on a floppy disk
(not on a CDROM). However, the message to do this talks about SCSI and RAID
drivers, and fails to mention SATA. Further, the message appears for only a
few seconds early during the installation process, and can easily be missed.
You obtain the drivers from the motherboard
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manufacturer. Thye are probably
 
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