SATA Installation

[MacAttack]

I just purchased a Seagate Sata 120GB drive. I installed it and the setup utility sees it. I can configure it with the Seagate DiscWizard. Then, when I go to install WinXP, it cannot see the drive.

At post, I get the line that show no IDE HDDs. The RAID section shows that there is a 120GB Seagate HDD in the primary. There is none in the secondary. I went into the RAID section of BIOS and it sees the one drive. When I try to "Create RAID set", I get a message that there are not enough single drives to create a RAID set. I don't want to use this is a RAID configuration. I want to use this as a lone HDD until I can get another one.

I am at a loss of what to do to get WinXP installed. I have a LeadTek K7NCR18D Pro II (Deluxe Limited) motherboard. The specs say that it has SATA Raid 0 & 1 support. I am not completely sure what that means, but I am guessing that I am required to have 2 drives.

Any info is appreciated.

 

[MacAttack]

Well, I thought about deleting my stupid mistake above, but I figure I should leave it there is case someone else is a stupid as I am.

The Sata drive is seen a SCSI device from WinXP (I think NT and 2000 do the same). You will need to press F6 at the beginning of the Installation startup to add additional SCSI device. You need to create a diskette (if not provided by the mobo vendor) with the SATA drivers to install.

Pretty simple if you already knew or had this information.

 

[Gravity]

Thanks for your solution. SATA drives have been problematic when used as primary/solo drives in new installations. Your directions are among the first I've seen posted.

Again, Thanks!