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Please help me install xp my new SATA drive :)

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imported_myst

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I have a brand new 74gig 10000 rpm hard drive by WD...
I have a ASUS a7v333 motherboard, and I bought a adapter PCI card that lets me use the hard drive.

I installed the PCI card in the 4th slot of my motherboard, what do I do next? Do i have to format the hard drive to fat32 like I would a IDE drive? or should i just boot up my XP cd? Will I need a special driver to install xp?

Thanks!
 
Boot from the XP CD, and press F6 when you see the message on the bottom of the screen. Later windows will ask you to insert the floppy that contains drivers for your controller card. Follow instruction to partition and format your drives and you are all set.
 
Also, do not expose your fresh WinXP installation to any network connections until you have firewall protection to keep the worms from getting in. wormBgon
 
arghhh
after waiting so long for my stupid cd to load the files, windows asks me to install the scsi driver (it lists 3 of them, western digital 2000, 98 and xp, i picked xp) but then when the screen comes up asking which drive to install it on, my sata drive doesnt show up!!!

what did i do wrong?
 
arghhh
after waiting so long for my stupid cd to load the files, windows asks me to install the scsi driver (it lists 3 of them, western digital 2000, 98 and xp, i picked xp) but then when the screen comes up asking which drive to install it on, my sata drive doesnt show up!!!

what did i do wrong?

do i need to format my drive first?
how can i do that?
 
Did the SATA card itself list the hard drive, when it initialized its own separate card-level BIOS? This would be a screen that you would see before your system began booting from your WinXP CD-ROM.

What brand & model of SATA card do you have, by the way.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Did the SATA card itself list the hard drive, when it initialized its own separate card-level BIOS? This would be a screen that you would see before your system began booting from your WinXP CD-ROM.

What brand & model of SATA card do you have, by the way.
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yes it did
 
the brand is "Creative I/O" some no name brand and I cant even find its website online to get drivers for.. windows xp cant even find drivers for this card

 
But the card came with a floppy diskette that has drivers on it, right? Did it come with more than one floppy with drivers, or just the one? You might pull the card back out, threaten it a bit (they fear water and high-voltage shocks), then tell me the brand & model of the SATA chip on the card, maybe it's a Silicon Image Si3114 or whatever.

If the card has a jumper for RAID/non-RAID, choose non-RAID and try again with the floppy.

Bigger picture: you could just pick up a nice shiny ATA/100 or ATA/133 drive and you wouldn't have to deal with this nonsense 🙂
 
SATA = evil 😉 Not so evil on the new hardware where it's often natively recognized like standard ATA drives are, but in your case you have a lot of disadvantages to overcome. Probably the cleanest solution would be to replace your motherboard with an Abit NF7-S2G, as far as the hardware side of it goes.

more SATA infos here
 
Originally posted by: myst
ok i just installed the drivers for xp..
what do i do next?
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Could you clarify here... you did what, transferred the driver files from the CD to a floppy, rebooted, began Windows Setup from CD-ROM, pressed the F6 key at the prompt, gave it the floppy, and Windows Setup sees the drive?

If yes, then 😎. Create a partition, format it with NTFS file system (quick format is fine), and carry on with Windows Setup, making sure that your network cable is unplugged to keep the worms out.

 
no not quite..
i installed the driver in XP
but i still see no new drive or anything :'(

and i still cant get my drive to show up in xp install
 
Originally posted by: myst
no not quite..
i installed the driver in XP
but i still see no new drive or anything :'(

and i still cant get my drive to show up in xp install
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Now right-click My Computer, choose Manage, and go down to Disk Management like in this pic: pic of Disk Management. Your drive will be listed. Right-click the white bar that represents its capacity, create a partition, format it and assign a drive letter to it. Now it will begin to show up in My Computer.

That does nothing to help you install WindowsXP on it, however. I don't think you will be able to install WinXP on it since it's a VIA-based card.

 
Originally posted by: myst
its formatting now 🙂
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🙂
now if i restart with the cd, will it let me install xp on it?
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Nope.
also, do u have icq or anything?
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No, but my response time here ain't far off, is it? 😀 Actually I do need to drive back down to the office to fire off a MiniDV-to-DVD encode job, but hopefully I'll be back in about 45 minutes.

 
You are basically going to have to start over again.
In order to install XP on a drive, XP has to fully recognize the card when you boot off of the xp cd, and see the blue screen that asks for the scsi or raid drivers. Find the cd that came with this hardware, and look for a winxp folder that has some .inf files in it, or let us know what exactly card it is, and go to the manufacturers site for a driver installation disk.

Yo.
 
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