Adding SATA to existing XP system for A7N8X MB

[ppanagos]

: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, and it shows up in the bios boot sequence and as working in device manager (both the SATA controller and drive). XP's computer manager and even the Seagate maintainence software see the 160GB drive (I can run diagnostics on it), but windows explorer and the Seagate install/formatting software do not.

What should I try next ?? I'd appreciate suggestions.


Also, the ASUS website seems to be unavailable so have been unable to get latest Silicon Image controller drivers (3112), similarly the SI website won't let me connect to download them either. Are others haveing this problem ?

 

[imported_Phil]

You have to initialise & format the disk.

Right-click on My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management. Right-click on the new SATA drive, Initialize. Then right-click on the new area of free space & make a partition. Choose Quick Format, hit Okay, wait. You're done.

 

[ViRGE]

You can grab the latest SATA drivers here. They have nothing to do with your problem directly(DopeFiend provided the solution to that), but they offer better performance than the old drivers that come on the install CD.

 

[ppanagos]

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