installing sata hard drive

[mightyesoj11]

Hi I am for the first time installing a brand new 74 gb sata raptor in my Asus P5AD2 deluxe, I'm then going to install xp as my current hard drive sux and is going in the trash. I've never installed a new sata hard drive b4 and was wondering if anyone could give me some info on how to do it. Thanks for your help.
-Joe

 

[TheStu]

if you got the drive retail there should be a disk in the box with the drivers. If you didn't get it retail then go to Western Digital's website and download the SATA drivers for the Raptor onto a floppy (if you ahve the drive) or burn them to cd. Then when you go to install XP as soon as the screen goes blue at the bottom it will say press F6 if want to install a 3rd party SCSi driver (or something really, really similiar to that) press F6 and then follow the on screen instructions.

 

[jackschmittusa]

The sata drivers come from Asus. You either got a floppy with the mb, or the mb cd has a utility for creating the floppy which you will use when prompted during installation. Be ready early in the installation when prompted to press F6, it won't wait long.

 

[mightyesoj11]

Thank you, but kinda got 2 answeres, which drivers would be the best to use and do I have to format the drive? How best to do that, the old hard drive I formatted was only 10 gig and I used Fat32??

 

[jackschmittusa]

TheStu was wrong. The drivers needed for setting up XP are for the mb sata controller. XP will offer to format the drive during installation. NTFS is the more robust format and is the prescribed choice for XP.

 

[WPFossil]

You don't always have to press F6 to install XP to a SATA drive (I didn't). This is especially true of the newer mobos.

 

[helpmeout]

I don't have time to check your board, but if it has the Intel ICH5 chip, just plug you SATA drive into SATA 0 on the mobo, leave mobo at default. XP has the SATA drivers, the drivers on the mobo CD or floppy are for RAID configuration.

 

[Grunt03]

what MB are you useing?

 

[Rookie]

Originally posted by: helpmeout
I don't have time to check your board, but if it has the Intel ICH5 chip, just plug you SATA drive into SATA 0 on the mobo, leave mobo at default. XP has the SATA drivers, the drivers on the mobo CD or floppy are for RAID configuration.

I am a P5AD2 Premium user. SATA 0, no drivers needed. Have fun!

 

[helpmeout]

Grunt03, if your question was directed to me, I have an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe.


From what I've neen reading, Asus has the best mobo setup for SATA. I replaced my Abit IS7 with this board because the Abit BIOS was driving me crazy while trying to get SATA set up.

 

[mightyesoj11]

Thanks for the help everyone, I have an Asus P5AD2 Deluxe