WD raptor problems

Borg81

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I am having problems getting windows to install on my raptor. My computer has the raptor, and a regular 250GB ata hard drive hooked up. When I go to install windows it only gives me the option to install the OS on the 250GB drive. Do I need to cahnge some of my motherbaords settings for serial ata, or do I need to do something different when I am installing windows?

Thanks in advance.
 

johnjkr1

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Is the raptor serial ATA? If so, you need to press F6 during the xp install so you can give it the serial ata adapter drivers. Otherwise it will only see your parallel ATA drive.
 

Borg81

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thx for the responses. Yeah its serial ata. So I press F6 and install the drivers. Do I also need to have windows XP with service pack 1 for it to recognize the drive or does pre-service pack XP recognize serial ata.
 

johnjkr1

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As long as your raptor isnt over 136gb, it should be seen just fine. And since the biggest raptor I know is 74, you should be ok.
 

jsu

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to get my sata hdd to work (on a shuttle sb61g2) i had to go to hdd setup in the bios and set it to sata
 

InlineFive

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And make sure to keep the IDE drive unplugged when installing Windows on an IDE drive!
 

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Originally posted by: PorBleemo
And make sure to keep the IDE drive unplugged when installing Windows on an IDE drive!
What? :confused:
 

MDE

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He meant to unplug IDE drives while installing Windows to the Raptor.
 

Mavtech

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I have WinXP Pro installed on 2 Raptors. I have the Asus P4C800DX mobo. I had to go into the bios and put the SATA hard drive as the #1 hard drive so it shows up in the boot order. (it replaced the IDE drive in the boot order) Then, Windows recognized it in the OS setup.