sata instalation?

[kgiang03]

I JUST GOT MY NEW SATA HARDDRIVE AND TRIED INSTALLING IT WITH A CLEAN INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS XP. NOTHING IS WORKING. I WAS TOLD TO TAKE OUT MY OLD IDE HARDDRIVE SET UP MY NEW SATA HDD AND START THE COMPUTER SO IT BOOTS FROM A CD. THEN WHEN IT STARTS TO BOOT WNDOWS XP ASKS TO HIT F6 IF I NEED TO INSTALL DRIVERS FOR MASS STORAGE DEVICES WHICH I DO. BUT WHEN I HIT F6 IT WONT GO TO THE SCREEN I NEED TO SET UP THE BIOS DRIVERS WHICH I DOWNLOADED FROM ASUS (THE TYPE OF MOTHERBOARD I HAVE). IT THEN GOES THROUGH THE INSTALLATION OF XP AND AT ONE POINT IT SAYS NO MASS STORAGE DETECTED WOULD YOU LIKE TO INSTALL AND CONTINUE I HIT YES AND THEN IT RESTARTS AND THE PROCESS REPEATS .... I NEED TO HIT F6 TO GET THE NEW DRIVERS ON SO THE THING RECOGNIZES MY SATA HDD HOW DO I DO THAT? IM A NEWBEE SO I NEED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS SPOON FED TO ME IF ANYONE CAN HELP. PLEASE!:frown:

 

[NumbaJuan]

you should be able to load your sata drivers on a floppy and hit f6 when asked during insallation. this might help

 

[fredtam]

Maybe it is because your shift key is stuck.
system specs?

 

[kgiang03]

sorry computer specs are : amd athlon 3200, asus a7n8x-e deluxe, ati radeon 9600 tx, 512 ram, toshiba dvd, generic cd-rw, old maxtor ide 20gig, and a new samsung sata 160 hdd that i'm trying to install, running windows xp pro from my old hdd. trying to install new hdd and install windows xp and use that as my primary drive to boot from. but like i said trouble getting it recognized need direction,

 

[SpunkyJones]

Are you using a USB keyboard? If so, try using a ps/2 for the installation process.

 

[fredtam]

Not real familiar with amd boars but I know if you do not have "on chip sata" turned on in the bios it will not let you F6 and will continue with XP installation.

 

[Fuchs]

If you bought the SATA drive retail it shoudl come with software and a floppy for doing what you're asking.

Do you have onboard SATA on your motherboard? If so you just need to set your computer's BIOS to Boot to the sata channel first.

If the bios see's the drive just go ahead and boot to an xp cd and choose that drive as the install drive, you should be ok.