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My SATA harddisk is detected but cannot be used

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NervousNovice

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I just finished building my new pc. I use a Asus A7V600 mobo with the latest BIOS 1006. I also have a Seagate 80G SATA harddisk. I connected my harddisk. For the IDE, there's only a dvd-rom in primary- master.

I am positive that my harddisk is plugged in and is detected. The Asus has an utility to setup RAID and I checked that it showed me there's a 74G HDD in SATA1 port (I'm not doing any RAID though, only 1 hdd).

However, it seems that my SATA shows up nowhere else (my BIOS boot sequence "IDE hdd" is "none"). I tried to install my WinXP from CD. It loaded and did some prelimary steps and then told me that no harddisk was found and told me to exit it.

By the way, when I turn on my pc, it does some POST and said no system boot stuff is found. There's no "C:\" command prompt. It just asked me to put a system boot disk and press a key. I don't know if that's what it should be.

Should I be expecting something like "C:\" appear if the SATA harddisk is detected?
How can I tell the pc (and the WinXP CD) that I'm using a SATA hdd and asks it to go find the hdd?

Please help. I'm so dead this time. 🙁
 
I went to Seagate website and downloaded a software called DiscWizard Starter Edition. It created 2 floppy disks for me to boot when I restart my new pc. I followed the steps and that software seems to install an utility or a driver for my harddisk.

After that, when I tried to turn on my pc (witn no OS), it ended up a "NTLDR is missing" error. I checked Windows website that it occurs when upgrading from old version of Windows to WindosXP (and I don't have an OS yet...)

I restarted my pc and put in my WindowsXP CD. The "no hdd found" error still exists. You guys suggest me to download a "3rd party driver" into a floppy disk and hit F6 when I'm installing. I don't know where to get such driver. Can anyone tell me where?
 
Hi, i had same problem, but just because i didn't have an floopy drive. Who does, btw ? Erm, Ok, ok 🙂

Just use your motherboard sata controller floopy disk (i suppose your board manufacturer released that in the bundle) when windows xp asks for special devices controllers during the installation. Simple as that. Don't have the disk ? Download it from your manufacturer site.

Don't have a floopy drive ? Get one, i did.

g/l
 
Originally posted by: phanatix
Hi, i had same problem, but just because i didn't have an floopy drive. Who does, btw ? Erm, Ok, ok 🙂

Just use your motherboard sata controller floopy disk (i suppose your board manufacturer released that in the bundle) when windows xp asks for special devices controllers during the installation. Simple as that. Don't have the disk ? Download it from your manufacturer site.

Don't have a floopy drive ? Get one, i did.

g/l
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The Asus A7V600 mobo doesn't come with any floppy disk. I checked Asus website and there's nothing I can download for the SATA.
 
NervousNovice, throw the A7V600's support CD into a working system and see if it has a utility called Makedisk.exe on it. If so, run it... its function is to make driver diskettes for the VIA SATA controller.

Once you've made the diskette(s), start Windows Setup from CD-ROM. The first blue screen says to press F6 if you have yada yada. Press F6 at that time. Once it's got its stuff unpacked, it'll prompt for that driver diskette that you made. Feed it the diskette and follow the prompts.

After that, your system will proceed with Windows Setup and reboot, and at that point your motherboard will need to be set up to boot from the SATA drive. You already know how to navigate in the motherboard's BIOS, right? So head over to the Boot menu, and see if you can get it to show the SATA drive in the Hard Drive line. If not, then escape from the Boot menu, go over to Advanced, scroll all the way down to I/O Device Configuration and go into that, and ensure that SATA Boot ROM is set to Enabled.

You did define your drive as an array in the VIA SATA controller's separate BIOS too, right? If not, follow the instructions that start on page 3-8 of the manual. 🙂 Good luck!
 
UPDATE to the above: Looking again at the A7V600's "Boot" menu options, I see that #4 is "Boot Other Device" and one of its options is "SCSI Boot Device." If you can't get the SATA drive to show up in the Hard Drive line, then choose SCSI Boot Device in the "Boot Other Device" line, since Windows (and the motherboard) will regard the SATA controller as a pseudo-SCSI device.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
UPDATE to the above: Looking again at the A7V600's "Boot" menu options, I see that #4 is "Boot Other Device" and one of its options is "SCSI Boot Device." If you can't get the SATA drive to show up in the Hard Drive line, then choose SCSI Boot Device in the "Boot Other Device" line, since Windows (and the motherboard) will regard the SATA controller as a pseudo-SCSI device.
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I confirmed that, after fixing the problem, that the "Boot from SATA ROM" won't show up in Advanced in BIOS and the IDE in boot sequence is also "none". However, by setting "Boot from other" as "SCSI/ATA adapter" it will work.
 
Originally posted by: NervousNovice
Originally posted by: mechBgon
UPDATE to the above: Looking again at the A7V600's "Boot" menu options, I see that #4 is "Boot Other Device" and one of its options is "SCSI Boot Device." If you can't get the SATA drive to show up in the Hard Drive line, then choose SCSI Boot Device in the "Boot Other Device" line, since Windows (and the motherboard) will regard the SATA controller as a pseudo-SCSI device.
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I confirmed that, after fixing the problem, that the "Boot from SATA ROM" won't show up in Advanced in BIOS and the IDE in boot sequence is also "none". However, by setting "Boot from other" as "SCSI/ATA adapter" it will work.
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Others will do Searches and find this thread and appreciate that you documented that for them 😎 I'm glad to hear it's coming together now! 🙂 Make sure to get your defenses up against that stupid Sasser worm before bringing it online. If you're behind a cable/DSL router that has firewall capabilities, you'll be ok, but if not, get ZoneAlarm onto it before getting hooked up to the Internet 🙂 The Resources page in my photo guide has links to that and also the free AVG antivirus software if you need some.
 
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