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| Thread ID: 44095 | 2004-04-06 12:32:00 | Installing SATA hdd | kyo98 (932) | Press F1 |
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| 227787 | 2004-04-06 12:32:00 | Hi this may sound like a stupid question but how do you install a SATA hdd? I tried to install one the other day but couldnt see it in bios nor WIN XP setup to see it either. Could someone post a step by step info to installing one? Not sure of jumper settings either nor how many cables are supposed to be plugged in the back of the sata hdd I have an AWARD bios but how do you detect it in there? What i have done so far. Installed it into the bay, plugged power cable & one cable from back of hdd to sata 1 on the MB. Partitioned it & formatted it. Tried installing windows after this but setup can't see the hdd. Bit of a mess eh Any help would be appreciated |
kyo98 (932) | ||
| 227788 | 2004-04-06 20:31:00 | Hi Kyo98, I feel your pain!! :_| I have just gone through the same process myself. The first point to make is that there are NO jumpers with SATA drives. As for cables, you are correct with two. 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. What do you do if you have no floppy drive? That I don't know. Assuming you do have a floppy drive, your mobo support CD should have the SATA drivers and/or a utility to create a floppy for use during OS install. Any more questions, feel free to ask. I am still battling with my system, but I am learning with each fight. :D Cheers Miami |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 227789 | 2004-04-07 00:48:00 | Hey, Thanks for some good info this will help a lot. First how do you get the bios to recognise the sata hdd? I haven't even got past this yet =\ kyo |
kyo98 (932) | ||
| 227790 | 2004-04-07 00:59:00 | Obviously this will be BIOS dependent, but you will need to find look for something like IDE Configuration. Within that category you should have the option to select Enhanced Mode instead of Legacy Mode. You will then need to tell the BIOS whether to support enhanced mode on SATA, PATA or both. I'm not entirely sure on that one, but suspect if you have a mixture of IDE and SATA drives, you may need to select the both option. When you restart, your BIOS should see the drives. Cheers Miami |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 227791 | 2004-04-07 02:36:00 | To make my SATA drive the install drive I had to unplug the standard IDE drive before windows XP woul allow me to install onto the SATA as a boot drive. Once installed I then plugged the IDE drives back in and everything went sweet. If you are installing WinXP or 2000 then you will need to press F6 during install to load 3rd party ScSI device drivers. And as said before depending on your bios you will need to enable SATA devices in the bios first. |
Odin (227) | ||
| 227792 | 2004-04-07 02:49:00 | What motherboard do you have. On mine I have two Sata connections. 0 & 1. 0 is the primary. In Cmos settings you must have "Sata enabled" selected. Set your master disk to AUTO, and bios should find it. With a gigabyte board sata will re-map itself through primary IDE and drive will be shown in bios as primary IDE. Also if , like me , you have an early m/b (6 months) you may have to flash your bios for the drive to run properly. I bought my comp in January without an O/S so I had lots of fun and games getting it to work and when I did bios had a lot of trouble finding the drive. A bios dated 25/12/03 fixed the problems. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 227793 | 2004-04-08 21:06:00 | How about letting us know how you got on. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 227794 | 2004-04-21 01:42:00 | Hey thanks for all the help I had to find some drivers to put onto a floppy & do it that way with the F6 option during installation kyo |
kyo98 (932) | ||
| 227795 | 2005-03-19 02:42:00 | I'm having the same problem. However, I do not have a floppy drive. Are there any alternatives, or do I need to go out and buy one before I can use my SATA HD? I've a Gigabyte motherboard, and SATA is enabled in Bios. I've also got an IDE drive with windows installed, though I'd eventually like to be able to take it out and put it back in the other computer and use the SATA as the boot drive in this one. | iteration2 (5494) | ||
| 227796 | 2005-03-19 02:49:00 | I've wondered what you do with no floppy drive. Lots of new PCs do not have them now - well, at least Dell?HP sort of new ones anyway. I'd borrow one. Just connect it temporary and then give it back after you're set up. Have to say my new board (A8N) has a lovely BIOS setup for sATA. Also I set up an K8N the other week and it had the new BIOS for sATA, I don't know if it even used the floppy as I left the room while setup was just starting and although I had the floppy ready in the drive when I came back in it was miles past that part. If it did it didn't ask for it. I liked it anyway :-) |
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