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SATA drive not recognized by WinXP setup

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Patt

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I have a SATA drive (320 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA2 3BG/s 7200 rpm 16MB cache NCQ) which I have successfully attached as extra storage to my current setup. I have backed up all my data, and now want to run WinXP setup on that same drive, but a different partition.

My MB, incidentally is an ASUS A7N8X deluxe.

I have unplugged my old IDE drive, and booted from the WinXP cd, but it no longer recognizes that there is a hard drive attached.

Can anyone offer any help?
 
You may have to change how the SATA controller behaves in the BIOS. Either that, or you need to install the SATA RAID drivers when XP Setup asks if you need any drivers (where it asks for you to press F6).
 
Originally posted by: Brainonska511
You may have to change how the SATA controller behaves in the BIOS. Either that, or you need to install the SATA RAID drivers when XP Setup asks if you need any drivers (where it asks for you to press F6).
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I just stumbled across this as you posted ... I don't have the drivers, and am not sure where to locate them ... any ideas?

Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: Patt
Originally posted by: Brainonska511
You may have to change how the SATA controller behaves in the BIOS. Either that, or you need to install the SATA RAID drivers when XP Setup asks if you need any drivers (where it asks for you to press F6).
Click to expand...

I just stumbled across this as you posted ... I don't have the drivers, and am not sure where to locate them ... any ideas?

Thanks!
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Maybe on Asus's website, you'd need a floppy disk drive and floppy disk to install the Pre-OS SATA drivers. The easiest way though would be to fiddle with the hard drive controller settings in the BIOS and change them from RAID to IDE Mode so you don't need to bother with the drivers.
 
Just solved it by using a floppy with a Silicon Image driver on it ... convulted ASUS website finally led me to it. Thanks for the assistance Brainonska511 ... installation is now underway 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Patt
Just solved it by using a floppy with a Silicon Image driver on it ... convulted ASUS website finally led me to it. Thanks for the assistance Brainonska511 ... installation is now underway 🙂
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Wasn't a problem. Hopefully the rest of the installation will be problem free.
 
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