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| Thread ID: 44095 | 2004-04-06 12:32:00 | Installing SATA hdd | kyo98 (932) | Press F1 |
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| 227797 | 2005-03-19 06:56:00 | it can be done www.google.co.nz plenty of info there..... it might involve making a cd with a driver on it.... |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 227798 | 2005-03-19 07:11:00 | Yer it depends on what mobo u have. And whether u want to use raid. You SHOULDN'T need drivers for 1 SATA by itself. Only if u use 2 SATA in RAID. Thats when u need a floppy or cd with the drivers on it (which are usually on the mobo cd). BUT you have to extract them first off the CD. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 227799 | 2005-03-19 18:33:00 | I finally, after a few failures and terrible guides that were either vague, specific to one type of driver, or took a lot of very advanced knowledge on the part of the reader for granted, found a great tutorial for adding drivers to an XP install CD that seems to work and could be easily applied to my SATA controller. Onlike other guides I found, it actually explains what parts of the tutorial are specific to the example driver it uses, and what to change if you're using a different one. The process was a bit involved, but was straightforward, only took about half an hour and my new install CD seems to recognize my SATA drive. Certainly more desirable than going out and buying a floppy drive that I'll probably never use (this is literally the first time I would have used a floppy drive since at least 1998). Anyway, if anyone else is still having trouble, here's the link to the tutorial: www.maximumpc.com Only one minor detail about the tutorial that I'd edit: In the second to last sentance, where it says "Open the folder and add its entire contents to your CD image.", I'd substitute it for the sentance "Open the folder and add it's entire contents, EXCEPT for the Microsoft Corporation.img file you created". When I tried to add this file to Nero, it caused Nero to crash repeatedly, and leaving it off of the CD doesn't seem to negatively affect it (the purpose of the file is to let Nero make a bootable CD, and it doesn't seem to have to be included in the contents of the CD itself). Hope this helps anyone who's still having a problem. |
iteration2 (5494) | ||
| 227800 | 2005-03-20 07:34:00 | Hi Kyo98, Next, as long as you have configured the BIOS to recognise the drive (which it looks like you have), you will need to load the SATA driver during Win XP load. At the start of the Win XP setup, press F6 to load additional drivers and insert the SATA drivers on a floppy disk when requested. Miami You only need the drivers if you are setting them up as RAID devices. If you just want to see them as standard drives then just use your BIOS to set the option. I will usually say something like Enable SATA AS. |
Big John (551) | ||
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