raid/sata driver disk(s)?? a7n8x-e deluxe

[imported_bushman]

I just got an oem a7n8x-e deluxe and ditched my a7v880. I installed xp on an old IDE drive, but I really want the speed of the sata Seagate Barracuda I have. the driver disk that came with my new board doesn't seem to have any "makedisk" application that would make a driver disk. I know I could probably muster the right files from the sata driver folder, but don't know exactly which ones. I can see the txt.oem file and some others, but I'd definitely rather get the good advice of this forum. can anyone help? Thanks

 

[Trashman]

If you go in device manager does it show a sata controller installed??
If you installed all motherboard drivers correctly....you "should" be able to connect that SATA drive to mobo, and windows should have no problem detecting it....not really sure what you mean by "makedisk". only time i could see needing a sata driver disk, is if you were doing a fresh install of windows on the sata drive, but since you installed it on a ide drive, and windows is installed, no special disk would be needed.

edit---so i would just plug that sata drive in, if windows sees it no problem then just use Seagate Tools to copy windows over from the IDE drive to the SATA drive, change boot sequence in BIOS....boom, you now have windows loaded and runnin on the SATA.

 

[imported_bushman]

Yes, I was able have windows recognize my sata drive after the raid driver install, but for some reason everything slows down to a crawl. It might be because I didn't format so some kind of conflict is happening between the old via and new silicon image drivers. whatever. I actually wanted to do a fresh install of windows to this Barracuda, start anew. so that's why I mentioned "makedisk". the a7v880 driver cd had an app that made me a raid driver disk. I'll just go to Silicon Image's website and download the zip. thanks