Windows XP Install doesn't see my SATA drive (got it)

[AmdEmAll]

Ok I just built a computer today for a friend.

Amd Athlon 64 3000+
Gigabyte GA-K8VT800
Samsung 120Gb SATA Drive

Alright, the motherboard only came with a cd containing the drivers no floppy disk.

The hard drive shows up in the via sata bios.

I hit F6 in windows setup to install drivers and my only option is from a floppy.

So I put what I think are the sata drivers on them, from the via 4in1's and there is an error, File \SATA\winxp\viasraid.sys caused an unexpected error (18) at line 2108 in d:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.

Dunno what to do. The hard drive is brand new, never formatted or partitioned.

 

[MDE]

You probably have the wrong drivers on the floppy. Copy the SATA folder (or whatever the drivers on the CD are) onto a floppy and try those.

 

[AmdEmAll]

I looked on the cd, I see nothing about SATA. So I downloaded the via sata raid drivers for this chipset, put the sata folder on the floppy and I still get the same unexpected error.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Eh how stupid. It is so picky looking for the files. I got it to work the sata folder was inside another folder, so setup couldn't figure that out. Windows is installing now. :beer:

 

[kursplat]

good work :beer: