SATA Not working?

[beware]

I got a new sata drive (first time using one). When I go to make it my primary booting device i cant. I have an Asus A7V600 With the latest bios. When I go into the SATA part of the bios it wont let me do anything except press ESC. Any ideas? This is driving me nuts.

 

[natto fire]

Might check the motherboard to see if there is a jumper to enable SATA. My Asus mobo had one, and was defaulted to disabled. It was really close to the actual controller chip on the mobo.

Edit: And welcome to the forums

 

[Woody419]

Enter BIOS
Go to:
Advanced Menu - Onboard Devices Configuration - Onboard Raid Controller - Enabled - IDE Mode
Change Boot Sequence to make SATA drive first boot device
SATA/RAID Drivers need to be installed before XP can install if you are doing a clean install - instruction sheet on how to put drivers on a floppy should have been included with mb.

 

[beware]

Thank you for the replies, and thanks for welcoming me

I've tried your advice, I looked in the bios and there is no such menu.

http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt600/a7v600/e1372_a7v600b.pdf
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt600/a7v600/e1357_a7v600.pdf

Duno which manual is the one for mine , i assume theyre both the same. I looked in there to see if they recommended anything. Also, another problem I get when I access the sata menu [after the bios posts it goes to another menu that says press tab to view raid info]
I go into the menu it says press f1 for options enter to select and esc to exit. It displays my drive, but wont let me do anything except esc.] I updated my bios to the current one, and i'm still at an awe. Also, I was gonna try to use norton ghost to clone my current windows hdd to the new sata and get it to boot. Like woody said, i need the drivers when installing windows from start i need the drivers, i dont have a floppy drive. So yeah. Unless I can get windows to read them from a cd drive im screwed.

 

[Woody419]

Opps, sorry about the bad menu, the pdf files were offline last night so I winged it from my Asus bios. You definately need a floppy to install the drivers during a clean install. Did you post this in the motherboards forum? Might be more help there. I don't know if SATA drive will boot in XP without the ATA or IDE RAID controller drivers loaded.

 

[Woody419]

You could spend weeks researching how to do this:
http://tinyurl.com/6t7gh

OPTION #1
You can't make the SATA a primary boot until you format have an OS on it.
Make SATA drive a secondary master and format
Clone OS to secondary
Remove old drive
Make SATA primary master
Boot to new SATA drive
But you still need the drivers or it may not boot
Put old drive back in
Configure as secondary master
Format
You did backup all your date, right?

OPTION #2
Buy a floppy for $12
Clean install
Copy data
Time saved: weeks

 

[beware]

Okay, I got a floppy drive, downloaded the drivers and installed windows. As soon as I took the IDE drive off the board windows will no longer boot. Any ideas how to get windows to boot the SATA? Apparently it used to display the OS boot menu. I don't know how to make just the sata drive boot. This is driving me nuts! Any ideas would be appreciated!

 

[Woody419]

Time to get to know one of your local computer nerds? It sounds like a simple configuration problem, but we can't see what you are doing wrong. If someone could sit down in front of your machine they could figure it out in 5 minutes. You gotta know somebody who would help.

Leave the old IDE drive out of the computer and try this:

Set the BIOS to boot from cd-rom
Boot from the XP disk
You pressed F6 when prompted from the status line "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver"? You have 6 seconds to press the F6 key.

You can find the rest of the directions here.

 

[beware]

Yeah, i've done that. Now when I go to install windows on that "partition" -- i even created a new one and i get this error saying that windows cannot install because its not a comptable partition? Its formated in NTFS. Wtf do I do now? It installed fine last night.

 

[Woody419]

How many partitions are now on this new drive? Why not make the disk just one big fat happy partition. Start fresh.

If you get an error message, you have to write down EXACTLY what it says, then type that message into Google and you will have your answer.