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After deleting the partition on the SATA drive a restarting the installation, windows does not see the drive at the time of choosing where to install a new version of XP. The drive is set up as drive 0 in the RAID setup and the BIOS sees the drive. I also loaded the SATA drivers using F6. Any...

I thought that since I was able to use my SATA drive when I was still using my ATA drive as the boot drive, the Promise Controller's BIOS must have been setup correctly. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try as soon as I can (later today if possible). Thanks.

I deleted the partition (the only one on the SATA drive) and started installation over. It did not even see the SATA drive even though I had loaded the drivers for the SATA drive by pressing F6. Hmmmmm !!

I went to update my BIOS and it turns out that I already have installed version 1007 of the BIOS (my board is version 1.04, by the way). So, back to square one !

Thanks for the reply. I did have SCSI enabled as a boot device in the BIOS. I'll try the BIOS update. I've done it once before successfully so hopefully it will not be an issue.

My appologies: The MB is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe; 512MB RAM 160 GB Seagate SATA Drive Pioneer A-105 DVD- RW Using the built-in SATA interface on the MB I'll have to check to make certain but the BIOS is...

I've followed the forum for some time on how to install a SATA (160GB SEAGATE in my case) as the boot drive for XP so I thought that I was ready to give it a try. I've tried two approaches to the installation (you'll see why two shortly). In the first approach I disconnected my ATA drives (one...

Thank you for your suggestion and responses. Its working great now.

:frown: I'm close but not successful yet in getting my Seagate 160G SATA drive installed. I enabled the SATA jumper on the ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe MB, windows XP (already on my IDE system drive) saw the new hardware, installed the original Silicon Image 3112 SATA drivers supplied on the ASUS CDROM...