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Installing Win XP on SATA drive...Asrock 939 sata2 board

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Sandan

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After pulling my hair out for a day I finally figured out how to install XP On a WD250Gig SATA drive on my Asrock 929 SATA2 board...But I have an unsuspected problem. I had to load sata drivers in order for XP to recognize the drive. Aparantly XP doesn't have native support for SATA. Anyway I did that and it worked but the only option was to add sata raid drivers and in the bios the drive needs set as a raid setup in order to boot to it. With this setup on my second drive which is Vista 32 on a separate SATA drive I can't see the drive where XP is installed. If I go back to the bios and set the XP drive as nonraid I get "error loading operating system" but I can boot to my Vista drive and can see the XP drive. Any thoughts how to fix this?
 
Did you press F6 when you first load the windows setup? You need to load the drivers from a floppy disk. Are you trying to use RAID? You dont need to use raid to get XP on a SATA drive. Raid requires at least 2 hard drives anyway, and usually when you set up a raid array, it will delete the data on the disks, so be careful with that.
 
Yes I did press f6 to load the drivers. And I am not using Raid. I followed the directions exactly on the Asrock cd to install XP on an sata drive. The problem is that when you create the floppy related to f6 from the Asrock cd the only option is to create with SATA raid drivers. They do give an option before setting up the operating system Do you want to use the Raid function...I said no.
 
How do you get it to boot into Vista after you get that error message?

Forgetting the drive visibility issue for now, how did you intend to boot into either of the Operating Systems? What method did you intend to use?

What is the exact model of your motherboard and what ports are these respective drives plugged into? What I'm leading up to is that if you have 4 ports available, you'll probably want these drives on ports that cannot be Raided together.
 
Originally posted by: Sandan
Yes I did press f6 to load the drivers. And I am not using Raid. I followed the directions exactly on the Asrock cd to install XP on an sata drive. The problem is that when you create the floppy related to f6 from the Asrock cd the only option is to create with SATA raid drivers. They do give an option before setting up the operating system Do you want to use the Raid function...I said no.
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You'll probably still want to create the floppy disk with the SATA RAID drivers and provide them to Windows setup. Even if you aren't using the RAID features of the controller, that floppy will likely contain the necessary SATA controller drivers that Windows needs to continue with the setup.
 
i dont understand why a sata driver is needed to load xp sp1a and latter to a sata hard drive, i see this problem posted alot, i have never, not ever had to load a sata driver to an 865/875 & 975 intel chipset mobo setup as non raid, this problem is from incorrect bios setup and not taking the time to read the manual and follow the setup as outlined, imo. :roll:

both xp and vista loaded in a dual boot natively, never even asked for a driver disk.
 
Originally posted by: blazer
i dont understand why a sata driver is needed to load xp sp1a and latter to a sata hard drive, i see this problem posted alot, i have never, not ever had to load a sata driver to an 865/875 & 975 intel chipset mobo setup as non raid, this problem is from incorrect bios setup and not taking the time to read the manual and follow the setup as outlined, imo. :roll:

both xp and vista loaded in a dual boot natively, never even asked for a driver disk.
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It really depends on the SATA controller. Many SATA chips have a legacy compatibility mode that allows them to work with Microsoft's default IDE driver (I know this was the case with nForce controllers, but probably Intel as well). I don't know what chip the Asrock has, but if it does not support legacy compatibility, Windows XP SP1/2/3 won't have a driver for it.
 
Wow, Some good thoughts. Mr Chad...I did create and use the floppy with the Motherboard SATA drivers. It only contained SATA raid drivers not SATA controller drivers separately. But, I looked on the cd and there are sata controller drivers which I will install through the XP operating system. There was no option to load these drivers with the f6 function.
 
boomerang. To boot into windows I reboot and go to bios and point it to the drive where Vista is. My intent was to have a dual boot system using Vista Boot Pro. But in Vista since I can't see the XP drive I can't get XP recognized by Vista Boot Pro. Another weird thing is when I have the SATA drive set to Raid and boot into Vista in addition to not seeing the XP drive my 2 DVD drives don't show up. But if I go back to the Bios and identify the XP drive as non-raid I can't boot to it...but I get into Vista and I can see all my drives.....Go figure.
 
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