New Sata Drive: Cannot Install Windows

[Coldkilla]

Alright, I would totally google this but I honestly have no time. My PC is upstairs and it's 40lbs + monitor.. and Im having surgery tomarrow on my knee. I would really like to fix the pc in the morning so (at least for the next few weeks) not have to worry about treking back upstairs after I heal up to endure more stress. And going to sleep now only gives me 5 hours of sleep the night before my surgery so I cant stay up much longer.

This is my situation: Had 2 IDE HDD's, deleted the partitiones and got rid of them. Got a new Sata Drive, plugged the Sata cable into SATA 1, and plugged the CD Drive into IDE1. The PC loads the blue setup screen, and when I say create a new partition it says something about a hard drive not being detected. The odd thing is, in BIOS under hard drives it says something like "IDE ST3320620AS" In which ST3320620AS is the model of the hard drive. So I know its being detected. Also I caught a glimpse somewhere stating a 6 digit number starting with 320 (I have a 320GB SATA HDD), its late and cant remember where I saw it.

I dont have a floppy drive and dont even want to start on RAID because I dont even know what it is -- and dont have time to learn. I want to create a new partition in my SATA drive w/Windows XP.

If yall have any idea's I'll be looking forward to reading all the replys tomarrow and trying all of the suggestions. This will save me so much time tomarrow morning before I leave. Thanks yall.

 

[Lord Evermore]

I'm guessing it might be too late for you to do much with this before you go get surgery, at this point.

You need to supply the mainboard type. Your board may use an add-in chip for controlling the SATA ports. If it does, then Windows requires the driver for the chip on floppy. If the SATA controller is integrated into the chipset as with newer systems, then Windows normally does not need a driver as SATA is software-compatible with standard IDE (but it would if you had the ports in RAID mode).

I'm guessing since you see the drive in the BIOS, that the controller is in the chipset, otherwise you'd only see the drive when the add-in chip BIOS loads after standard POST.

I guess I can't answer the question, so here's a bump anyway.

 

[Coldkilla]

Im leaving now, heres my mobo:

ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Socket 939 ULi M1695

What can I do? Anyone got any ideas? I wont be able to reply for maybe a day or so as I'll be knocked out with sleepers forever.

 

[boomerang]

You should read pages 20 and 21 of your manual.

Depending on how you configure your SATA port, you may need a driver disk.

There is IDE mode and SATA mode. SATA mode needs a driver disk on a floppy.

From what I can gather, there are 3 SATA ports on the board. Two are coupled together for RAID and a single for the usage you require. The single port is capable of SATA2 for what that's worth.

The ASRock site is not cooperating right now for me so this is the best I can come up with.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The on-chipset controllers on that board are SATA 1.5G controllers. There is a single 3G port run from a PCI-Express add-in controller. From what I can see, the add-in port is labeled SATAII-1. I'm guessing you are plugged into that one, rather than the SATA1 connector. You'll get higher burst throughputs on the SATAII port, and no limits due to the old PCI bus connection of other add-in controllers since it's PCI-e, but you'll need to load a driver disk for Windows installation. The built-in SATA1 and SATA2 ports will have reduced burst read/write speeds, but you're unlikely to have any noticeable performance difference, it'll all be stuff you see in benchmark burst tests.

I just read the pages boomerang referred to. The IDE/SATA mode option does also refer to the SATAII port, not to the 1.5G ports. So you either need to move the connection to the other ports, or set it to run in IDE mode, as you've definitely got it plugged into the SATAII port.

 

[acole1]

Setting it to run in IDE mode would be easyest.

Make sure you take off the jumper for that drive to run in SATA2 mode.

 

[lamere]

I had the same problem winxp wouldn't detect my SATA drive. This is what fixed it for me and has worked every time since.

When installing windows right at the beginning it will say "press F8 to install third party SATA drivers" you need to press F8 but also need the floppy disk with the SATA drivers on it already in the floppy drive. After a minute or so it will ask you to select those drivers from a list that it's reading off the floppy. You will have to select one at a time and there should be SATA and PATA options to chose from, usually 4 for me. I install all of them one after the other going down the list to make sure I don't miss anything. After those drivers are installed it will see the SATA drive and start installing windows.
This has worked every single time for me, and believe me, I went throught the exact same thing you are experiencing here.
Hope this helps

 

[Lord Evermore]

lamere: Please, you're new here, try to be the one who changes the world and read all the posts before you post an answer that makes no sense, has been said already, or ignores what has been said.

He doesn't have a floppy drive. And it's already been pointed out that he would need the drivers on a disk during install only if he was running in SATA mode on a certain port, so he can just change that and it'll work.

 

[Coldkilla]

Thanks Lord Evermore heh..

Well after a 10 hour nap, i'm up but wont be able to run back and forth between my computer very frequently.

To recap for the new people:

NO FLOPPY DRIVE
CURRENTLY: The SATA connection is plugged into the Sata1 port. (One of the two black' connections), not the Red' Sata 3 gb/sconnection.

The computer recognizes it as IDE b/c in BIOS it says: "IDEST3320620AS" I believe to the best of my memory. Unless I am wrong. Anyother idea's really appreciated thank you so much.

 

[lamere]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
lamere: Please, you're new here, try to be the one who changes the world and read all the posts before you post an answer that makes no sense, has been said already, or ignores what has been said.

He doesn't have a floppy drive. And it's already been pointed out that he would need the drivers on a disk during install only if he was running in SATA mode on a certain port, so he can just change that and it'll work.

I'm only new to posting on the forums, not lurking them, so no, not really new at all.
Guess my mind was in a fog, early morning posts and me don't mix

 

[Coldkilla]

Somehow i fixed it, its formating now.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The pixie dust needed to recharge.

 

[Coldkilla]

lol yea probly -

honestly i have no idea what i did to make it work. least i know it works, took a really long time to partition a 320gb hdd though

however i got it working, surgery went well but i can barely stand heh, so switchin back and forth between the comp which does and the other that doesnt have the net sucks. ne ways, i appreciate the quick help and none of the "well well well, you lying crip, look it up on google".. erg, thx yall.

 

[thespyder]

I am in the midst of a brand new build:

ASUS P5W DH
Conroe 6600
2GB DDR2 Corsair XMS 800
Geforce 7900 GT
WD Sata Raptor
WD Sata Cavalier
CD Drive
DVD/RW Drive
3.5 Drive

Basically, my question is, am I going to have problems getting started without an IDE drive? Should the system boot from the Windows CD-Rom without SATA support? or is it already loaded on the MOBO?