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How to install SATA drive?

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algae

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I have an old A7N8X Deluxe motherboard currently with an IDE drive that I use for backup but I need to install a new SATA drive that will contain the OS. Can someone refresh my memory on how I get the pc to recognize the new drive and then how to get the bios set to boot to it first, etc. ?
I tried just plugging it in but it isn't showing up the list of available drives.
Thanks for any help.
Gary
 
HI Blain,
It doesn't show up in the bios or in disk management. Also I've tried plugging in another SATA drive that I have in both SATA ports and it doesn't show up either. I haven't tried another cable but I will. Is it possible that the controllers went out?
G.
 
^ This, the A7N8X has an add-on Silicon Image SATA controller which is most likely just not turned on in the BIOS.
 
Gary,

I have still have that same board, that makes two of us!

That board was made back when SATA/RAID was brand new. You have to provide the controller drivers using XP boot cd, if that's what you're using. XP boot cd will prompt you to press F2 to install third party drivers, after which you need to insert a floppy with the proper files on it. Your board should then detect SATA drives and enable RAID sets.

The drivers should still be around, I found them about a year ago when I reformatted.


algae said:
I have an old A7N8X Deluxe motherboard currently with an IDE drive that I use for backup but I need to install a new SATA drive that will contain the OS. Can someone refresh my memory on how I get the pc to recognize the new drive and then how to get the bios set to boot to it first, etc. ?
I tried just plugging it in but it isn't showing up the list of available drives.
Thanks for any help.
Gary
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If you want the SATA disk to be your system disk, you could try cloning the old IDE disk to the SATA disk, then remove the IDE disk, boot to the XP Install CD, and perform a "Repair Install" of XP. When you attempt the XP Repair Install, you'll need to provide XP with drivers for your SATA controller using a floppy disk unless your XP Install CD has the needed disk controller drivers added to its driver database, perhaps using NLite.

Assuming your SATA controller is enabled, the cloning could likely be done with something like CloneZilla, which would probably be able to see both the IDE and SATA controllers on that motherboard.

If your motherboard's SATA controller is capable if IDE Emulation then you could try changing your XP's disk controller to the generic Intel IDE drivers and then cloning the IDE disk to the SATA disk. But the XP Repair Install is the guaranteed way to do this.
 
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