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Installing Windows XP SATA Drive

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CeilingHoles

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I have a 120GB Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drive that I will be using on Asus K8N-E's built in chipset SATA (not the extra four). Can I just boot from the windows CD normally since its built into he chipset or is there something extra I gotta do? Thanks a lot for helping a n00b in need 🙂
 
Although I'm not 100% sure, I think you will likely need the SATA controller drivers on a floppy. Just because the SATA ports are a part of the chipset, it doesn't mean (to me) that it will be supported by XP out-of-the-box. Certainly give it a shot. Can't hurt, right? 🙂

If you want to be really snazzy in the future, you can re-master your XP install CD to include drivers not currently built into the OS. http://unattended.msfn.org/

-SUO
 
If there's no raid controller then there's nothing you need to do (provided of course it's native). However, most of the new boards come with a raid controller added on, in which case you do need the drivers for the raid controller for Windows to see the drive.

Otherwise, with no raid controller, they'll just show up as third, fourth, fifth etc. master drives in the bios and windows will see them just fine.

Edited to be a little less confusing.
 
You must have gotten a floppy w/ drivers when you bought your mobo. You'll need to hit F6 while windows is loading when it says to. Then, put the floppy in, and install the drivers you need. voila it should work like a charm.
 
Originally posted by: Kenazo
You must have gotten a floppy w/ drivers when you bought your mobo. You'll need to hit F6 while windows is loading when it says to. Then, put the floppy in, and install the drivers you need. voila it should work like a charm.
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Note: my k8v did not come with said floppy, I had to make it using the CD that came w/ the board. There was a make disk util on the CD to make it easy tho', so if you don't have a disk check the mobo's CD.
 
Originally posted by: Dowfen
If there's no raid controller then there's nothing you need to do (provided of course it's native). However, most of the new boards come with a raid controller added on, in which case you do need the drivers for the raid controller for Windows to see the drive.

Otherwise, with no raid controller, they'll just show up as third, fourth, fifth etc. master drives in the bios and windows will see them just fine.

Edited to be a little less confusing.
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its not RAID specific even though thats what it states. its any hard drive controller, be in PCI based IDE, SATA, or motherboard based SATA. if the chip was made recently then chances are you will need a floppy with drivers to boot off of it.
 
Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
Originally posted by: Dowfen
If there's no raid controller then there's nothing you need to do (provided of course it's native). However, most of the new boards come with a raid controller added on, in which case you do need the drivers for the raid controller for Windows to see the drive.

Otherwise, with no raid controller, they'll just show up as third, fourth, fifth etc. master drives in the bios and windows will see them just fine.

Edited to be a little less confusing.
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its not RAID specific even though thats what it states. its any hard drive controller, be in PCI based IDE, SATA, or motherboard based SATA. if the chip was made recently then chances are you will need a floppy with drivers to boot off of it.
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>>That's not true at all, go to any manufacturer's knowledge base. SATA Drives are bootable with no drivers, and an add-on SATA drive can be added in Disk Management. You need RAID drivers for RAID functionality, that's all. SATA and PATA are software compatible, they look exactly the same to the OS.
 
Originally posted by: Sahrin

>>That's not true at all, go to any manufacturer's knowledge base. SATA Drives are bootable with no drivers, and an add-on SATA drive can be added in Disk Management. You need RAID drivers for RAID functionality, that's all. SATA and PATA are software compatible, they look exactly the same to the OS.
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If that was the case why did my three SATA based motherboards ALL need a drivers floppy to install Windows XP?
 
Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
Originally posted by: Sahrin

>>That's not true at all, go to any manufacturer's knowledge base. SATA Drives are bootable with no drivers, and an add-on SATA drive can be added in Disk Management. You need RAID drivers for RAID functionality, that's all. SATA and PATA are software compatible, they look exactly the same to the OS.
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If that was the case why did my three SATA based motherboards ALL need a drivers floppy to install Windows XP?
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I saw a good explaination of this some time ago, but all I can remember is that it has something to do with better performance if not configured like an IDE drive.
 
Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
Originally posted by: Sahrin

>>That's not true at all, go to any manufacturer's knowledge base. SATA Drives are bootable with no drivers, and an add-on SATA drive can be added in Disk Management. You need RAID drivers for RAID functionality, that's all. SATA and PATA are software compatible, they look exactly the same to the OS.
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If that was the case why did my three SATA based motherboards ALL need a drivers floppy to install Windows XP?
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