GA-K8NF-9, Windows XP, Sata

[basinga]

Hi

I have a K8NF-9 with a single IDE Drive and Windows XP sp2 installed and doing well. I came into a 80gb Maxtor STA so thought I would pop it in and use the space. Having installed the drive, and configured BIOS to SATA 1, I figured windows would do the rest - no such luck - BIOS recognised the drive but Windows did nothing more that reinstalled the CK840 driver.

Recongfigured as a Spanning Raid Drive (via F10 setup;what else can you do with a single drive!). Windows found the raid controller and installed the SCSI Adapter, but still won't recognise the drive. At this point figured was missing something so thought I would see if anybody could give me a hint!

Thanks


Basinga

 

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Originally posted by: basinga
Hi

I have a K8NF-9 with a single IDE Drive and Windows XP sp2 installed and doing well. I came into a 80gb Maxtor STA so thought I would pop it in and use the space. Having installed the drive, and configured BIOS to SATA 1, I figured windows would do the rest - no such luck - BIOS recognised the drive but Windows did nothing more that reinstalled the CK840 driver.

Recongfigured as a Spanning Raid Drive (via F10 setup;what else can you do with a single drive!). Windows found the raid controller and installed the SCSI Adapter, but still won't recognise the drive. At this point figured was missing something so thought I would see if anybody could give me a hint!

Thanks


Basinga

With only one drive, all RAID option should be disabled. No drivers necessary for SATA as this motherboard, or rather the chipset, has native SATA support. If the drive is brand new, then once booted into windows, you have to go in disk manager and setup the new drive.

This option is in computer management in the administratives tools, IIRC.