New Hard Drive not Detected

[imported_Severed]

I just bought a new 160GB Hitachi SATA hard drive to replace my old 80GB IDE one and I'm having trouble getting the XP install disc to recognize it.

I've already partitioned and formatted the new disk with a program that came with it, and I can see it in My Computer and can store data on it. It also shows up in the BIOS and during the POST. However, when I go to install XP on it (booting from the XP CD) it doesn't detect it. I tried making a floppy with the SATA/RAID driver to use when it gives the "F6 for a third party driver" message, and it loaded the driver just fine, but still didn't detect the drive. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[bruceb]

Did you load the Drivers for the Motherboard SATA Chipset or pci SATA Card ? ?
That would be the first thing I would check ... also recheck your bios settings
for the SATA Drive

 

[imported_Severed]

I loaded the motherboard drivers that I got off the ASUS website (obviously I have an ASUS motherboard.) I looked through the BIOS and didn't see anything that looked like it should have been enabled; like I said, the drive shows up in the BIOS in the boot priority settings and whatnot as well as when I boot off the old hard drive, but it won't detect when I try to install XP.

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: Severed
I loaded the motherboard drivers that I got off the ASUS website (obviously I have an ASUS motherboard.) I looked through the BIOS and didn't see anything that looked like it should have been enabled; like I said, the drive shows up in the BIOS in the boot priority settings and whatnot as well as when I boot off the old hard drive, but it won't detect when I try to install XP.

If you're installing the RAID drivers and trying to install windows on a single drive, that will fail.

 

[imported_Severed]

I used the only drivers I could seem to find on the ASUS site and just figured that it was for both SATA and RAID drivers.

EDIT: From what I've read, ASUS just calls their SATA drivers RAID drivers.

 

[boomerang]

What's the model of your Asus board?

Edit: For reasons I can't explain, I have had problems in the past similar to yours when partitioning and formatting outside of the XP install. I would suggest using that same utility to write zeros to the drive. Many of them will write to the beginning and end of the drive and the process is quite quick.

Then, do your partitioning and formatting from within the XP install when prompted. If you create a smaller partition than the full drive capacity initially, you can deal with the remainder of the space from within XP afterwards using Disk Management.

Regardless, still tell us what model of Asus board you are using.

 

[imported_Severed]

Actually, instead of downloading the thing ASUS labeled as the driver floppy, I downloaded the normal driver packe. It was around 7 MB, which is why I didn't bother to try it before, but I opened it and extracted just the drivers out and used them instead, and it worked just fine. Thanks for the help anyway!