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Installing XP on new SATA HD a "no go"

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BukkY

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Installing XP on a PC with SATA HD.

Friend brought home a fast 40Gb SATA drive, plugged it into the onboard connector of his mobo (ECS Eliregroup 755-A2). Windows setup starts to run through its paces and then stops at a screen telling us that no hard drives are available, check the connectors, power and such. We re-seated the connectors and no go. The Raptor SATA HD had no disks with it, the mobo manual doesn't give us noobs a clue.

It's XP pro SP1 or below I believe.

Any advice on how to proceed?
 
Is the SATA controller enabled in the BIOS? Is the drive being detected by the motherboard? That's job 1 here 🙂 Your motherboard owner's manual may be helpful.
 
Also, looking at ECS's site, I see the 964 SATA controller is RAID-capable. You may need to define the drive as a one-disk array. Hit the Manuals link near the right and they've got a manual for the board, and also one for the SATA controller. I'd grab them myself but I'm on dial-up 🙁
 
Is the SATA control turned on in the bios? Does the bios recognize the drive? If they do, then most likely the SATA contoller requires the drives for windows to find it, you can dowload the SATA raid drivers from here.
 
The SATA is visible in bios. But I don't really know what I'm talking about. We don't even have a floppy on the machine, maybe could borrow one. The Raptor came with no CD and no Floppy, sealed new in packaging.
 
You will need to have a floppy, when installing windows, you press F6 when prompted and insert the floppy with the appropriate drivers, windows will look only to a floppy drive, so a cd or anything else won't work. It is possible to make a windows cd with the drivers slipstreamed however.
 
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