Installing SATA as a primary drive on Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe

[ManOnFire]

I was running on an IDE hard drive , and bought a new SATA hard drive. Obviously I want my SATA as a primary disk, however it won't boot unless there is a windows cd , or the computer is dual boot, with another OS running on the IDE.

Now I was doing some research and I found out I must install some drivers for the mobo, which i should make from the mobo cd. However I have 2 options :

Nvidia raid
Silicon Sata raid

Am I on the right track ? I mean I just want to install a sata hd not a raid system ... on the other hand i don't see any other options

can anyone please help!

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[Navid]

You don't need drivers. You should not enable RAID if you do not want RAID.

Disconnect your IDE drive.

Go into the BIOS and disable RAID.
Go into the boot priority list and place your SATA drive in the boot list.

Now, install XP.

Now, reconnect your IDE drive. Go into the BIOS and make sure that your SATA drive is ahead of your IDE drive in the boot priority list.

You should be OK now.

 

[niji1875]

remember install xp for SATA edition, or click F6 when setup for SATA driver.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: niji1875
remember install xp for SATA edition, or click F6 when setup for SATA driver.

What do you mean?
Do you mean XP pre-SP1 did not have SATA drivers?

Anyway, it is an excellent idea to make sure that the XP you install is SP2. Even if your XP CD is not SP2, you can slipstream it and make one.

 

[xtknight]

You don't need F6 drivers for the nForce controller because it emulates PATA (AFAIK they don't even have F6 drivers for it). Nor do you want to install the buggy NVIDIA native IDE/SATA drivers. But you do need F6 drivers if you wish to use the Silicon adapter.

 

[dfuze]

I just did the same thing earlier in the week (even w/ the same mobo). Just unplug the IDE hard drive(s) and then install XP on your SATA drive. If you don't unplug the IDE drives, it installs some files on it and you get the non-boot problem. You don't need to change any of the settings in the BIOS.

 

[lyssword]

Try using hdd image copy software, copy entire partition (from ur ide drive) to ur new sata, make sure it is a primary/boot for your new drive.