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Windows does not recognize SATA drive.

thespeakerbox

thespeakerbox

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I had a RAID Array with 2x 250gb WD drives. I've moved those 2 drives out to my media server, and I'm turning the old PC into an front end HTPC

I now have a single 200gb, but when I plug it into any SATA ports, it doesnt work. I deleted the old RAID array and used the auto setup on the promise contoller to create a single drive stripe array. My bios and computer recognize the drive, but when I try to load windows XP i get " WINDOWS COULD NOT DETECT A HARDDRVIVE"

I dont know what the problem is. Can someone help out?:

Specs:

AMD 3200+
Asus k8v se deluxe
 
During the initial Windows setup, you need to press F6 when prompted to "Press F6 if you need to load third party drivers", then when prompted a few minutes later, put in the floppy driver disk for the RAID controller (or the motherboard's onboard SATA controller) so that Windows Setup knows how to communicate with the drive attached to the controller.

If you don't have the disk itself you can usually download the drivers from the manufacturer's web site.

If you don't have a floppy drive, you'll either need to get one, or slipstream the RAID drivers into a Windows installation CD. If you decide to go this route, I recommend using nLite to do it. You can do it manually as well (good instructions on this site) but it takes some time to do it properly.
 
I had a similar issue and what I had to do was set SATA to something like Single drive or I think it was IDE mode in the bios and not raid, then I was able to install windows on it. Also in my case since my motherboard was older I had to put a jumper on the drive to set it to 150 Mbs instead of 300.
 
SATA drives don't have jumpers on.

If you want to setup RAID you must install the drivers in the way described by Fardringle.

I had exactly the same setup and set my SATA drivers to IDE mode in the bios and everything works fine. Apparantely a striped RAID can offer faster performance but I wanted mine as hd1 = windows and hd2 = data
 
Originally posted by: rikd
SATA drives don't have jumpers on.

If you want to setup RAID you must install the drivers in the way described by Fardringle.

I had exactly the same setup and set my SATA drivers to IDE mode in the bios and everything works fine. Apparantely a striped RAID can offer faster performance but I wanted mine as hd1 = windows and hd2 = data
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SATA drives do have jumpers.. my drive does have a jumper to run in 1.5GBPS mode instead of 3.0
 
I only have 1 Sata drive, and it does not have jumpers. So im guessing it's a Sata 1.

There are two sets of drivers from asus. Promise and VIA. VIA is a large file ~7.2mb. The promise file is 67KB, which will fit on a diskette, and therefore what I should use during the F6 part of the install process. I'm going to try it again , and see if it will work. Otherwise, I'm going to set my computer on fire and throw it out the window 😀
 
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