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Can't reformat Raptor SATA Hard drive on Asus K8V

RussianSensation

RussianSensation

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Hi my friend brought over his system comprised of:

A64 3000+
WD 36 Raptor
Asus K8V

He had some issues with the computer and he wants me to reformat it for him. Since I do not have experience dealing with SATA drives, every time try to boot off windows XP CD into boot configuration, it says the hard drive was not found, press F3 to continue to exit setup.

In the BIOS, the options say Primary and Seconday IDE drives ... Not found, which makes sense to me since we do not have any IDE drives. Windows boots perfectly oK normally, and the hard drive is detected upon start up. I don't understand why I cannot do a windows repair or reformat the hard drive and why does it tell that no storage device is found in boot configuration, when I can normally boot into windows?

Any input would be appreciated.
 
Get the wd tools and use that to format the drive. Just make sure you got the sata drivers on a floppy for when you reinstall windows.
 
The only tools I found for WD is the Silicon 3112 for WD drives, but that is not what I need because I have FastTrack Promise controller on the motherboard. I just dont understand why the windows boot configuration is not allowing me to install the windows operating system over the old one and says that the hard drive (storage device) was not found. So how did the person who originally assembled this SATA system install windows onto it in the first place. Am I missing a floppy or a disk that contains the drivers that are necessary to install the operating system on the SATA hard drive?
 
Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
You need the hit F6 at the very start of the XP installation and load your motherboard SATA drivers
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Yeah I did that and nothing happens....the motherboard didn't come with SATA driver floppy disk so I am assuming that pressing F6 causes loading of data "from nowhere" in my case. Or you are saying F6 should load SATA drivers from the motherboard chipset?

Should I just download this Promise SATA376 Driver V1.00.0.26 (ATA Mode) , put it on a floppy and then insert the floppy and press F6 when prompted? (Assuming I connect the SATA drive to that controller)

OR

Use the K8V CD and go to SATA/VIA and download the Chipset driver from the CD that way and make a floppy from it? (Assuming I connect SATA drive through VIA chipset)

The way I am understanding it is that now I just have to create a floppy disk with the drivers of the chipset on the motherboard and use those during the installation..right?
 
You dont need your motherboard CHIPSET drivers, you need the drivers for your onboard SATA on a floppy ( AKA what F6 prompts you for )
 
Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
You dont need your motherboard CHIPSET drivers, you need the drivers for your onboard SATA on a floppy ( AKA what F6 prompts you for )
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OK what i am trying to tell you guys is:

I dont have SATA drivers on a floppy because they didnt come with the motherboard OR the hard drive.

Furthermore, I do not know where to get them, because the only drivers available from asus website are VIA VT6420 (VT8237) SATA RAID Driver Package Version 2.20D WHQL, but I am not installing RAID. Besides they are 7mb, so how am I supposed to fit them on a floppY?

However, there is a PromiseTrak controller on the motherboard that has 2 SATA ports besides the 2 VIA ports and the website has a driver for it Promise SATA376 Driver V1.00.0.26 (ATA Mode) 969kb. Should I then physically remove the cable from VIA ports and connect that SATA hard drive to the PromiseTrak port, install the drivers onto a floppy and press F6 when promted theN?

That is why i don't know what to do. I wouldn't keep asking you guys 10x if I had the drivers on a floppy. The main problem is I dont know what drivers the F6 function wants from me - motherboard SATA chipset drivers OR hard drive SATA drivers. If it's motherboard drivers, I dont know which ones to use. If it's hard drive drivers, I cant find them on the Western Digital website.

My friend lives 1.5 hours away from me, so the reason why I keep asking is that I cant just try this myself because I have to tell him what to do first. So it'd be better if i had an idea instead of telling him try these 10 options.
 
Sounds like the hard drive is setup as the first boot device. Change the bootup device order in the BIOS so that the CD/DVD drive is first to go or IIRC hit F8 during bootup to manually select the available bootup device.

P.S. Ignore this if you already made it into Windows XP's blue screen setup. This was assuming you were attempting to boot into Windows XP blue screen setup and are stuck in DOS.
 
Furthermore, I do not know where to get them, because the only drivers available from asus website are VIA VT6420 (VT8237) SATA RAID Driver Package Version 2.20D WHQL, but I am not installing RAID. Besides they are 7mb, so how am I supposed to fit them on a floppY?
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The 7MB file is correct. There's a utility IIRC labeled makedisk.exe or similar within that 7MB's which will allow you to make a floppy driver disk and it works for standalone drive installations too regardless of it's RAID labeling.


However, there is a PromiseTrak controller on the motherboard that has 2 SATA ports besides the 2 VIA ports and the website has a driver for it Promise SATA376 Driver V1.00.0.26 (ATA Mode) 969kb. Should I then physically remove the cable from VIA ports and connect that SATA hard drive to the PromiseTrak port, install the drivers onto a floppy and press F6 when promted theN?
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Only if you want to use the Promise SATA ports instead. If you want to use the Promise instead make sure standalone ATA mode (non raid) is selected within the BIOS along with said appropriate drivers.

The main problem is I dont know what drivers the F6 function wants from me - motherboard SATA chipset drivers OR hard drive SATA drivers. If it's motherboard drivers, I dont know which ones to use. If it's hard drive drivers, I cant find them on the Western Digital website.
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Motherboard drivers

Specifically SATA controller drivers
 
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