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| Thread ID: 65053 | 2006-01-05 22:54:00 | Installing XP on a SATA drive | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 418553 | 2006-01-05 22:54:00 | Hi All I am looking at purchasing a couple of large SATA drives to replace my ageing and small-capacity IDE drives and then doing a fresh reinstall of Windows XP Pro on the 1st SATA drive. My motherboard (Gigabyte 8IK1100) supports SATA and has 2 SATA connectors – SATA 0 & SATA 1. From the preliminary research that I’ve done on the topic it would appear that I may have some problems in getting XP installed on the primary SATA drive. By the looks of it I need to enable my SATA connections (through the BIOS) as SATA 0 & SATA 1 and not have them set as either ‘disabled’ or ‘remapped’ as IDE primary and/or slave and hit F6 when I’m doing my XP install and install 3rd party drivers via a floppy disc. The difficulty that I have with this is I haven’t had a floppy drive in this PC for ages and I’m not inclined to have to install one just to get SATA drivers installed for the SATA drives to be recognized! From my reading I understand that if I have an XP Pro install disc that has SP2 included I don’t need the floppy driver workaround – is this correct and are my abovementioned assumptions correct or is there another way of achieving a hassle-free SATA-based install of XP? |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 418554 | 2006-01-05 22:59:00 | No, if you use SATA in RAID, you have to enable RAID in the BIOS, and then extract the RAID drivers, (from the mobo cd), to floppy FIRST, before anything else . SP2 doesn't fix this . The RAID drivers usually have to be installed during the XP install, NOT after XP has been installed . If you're not going to use RAID, then you don't need the drivers for RAID . Just as long as the BIOS detects both, XP will see both once XP has been installed . (if you're not going to use RAID) . They'll run like normal hard drives . Just make sure both have power connectors . The header/s on the mobo only supplies data, it doesn't supply the power . With some (or most) mobos, SATA is 3rd and fourth master . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 418555 | 2006-01-05 23:09:00 | Not srue about Raid. I did a system build a week ago. SATA with no jumpers are jsut connected up. Windows CD boots up, its able to automatically detect the drive and install on it. No floppy required. RE: Raid on ours its via Bios and there is also a windows software as well. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 418556 | 2006-01-05 23:13:00 | If you're not using RAID, XP will install as it would with IDE hdd's. No RAID drivers required. Just as long as the BIOS detects the SATA'/s. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 418557 | 2006-01-05 23:19:00 | Thanks for that advice. So just to make sure I understand things correctly ... As long as I have set the BIOS to enable/detect SATA (and not going to use RAID) I should be fine -- primary SATA drive will be the one on SATA0 I presume?? |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 418558 | 2006-01-05 23:26:00 | Thanks for that advice. So just to make sure I understand things correctly ... As long as I have set the BIOS to enable/detect SATA (and not going to use RAID) I should be fine -- primary SATA drive will be the one on SATA0 I presume?? Correct. XP should install on SATA 0, or whichever one you make the boot disk. No SATA RAID, no drivers required at ALL. And just as long as the BIOS detects the 2nd SATA, XP should detect it, and once you format the 2nd SATA thru disk management, it (the 2nd SATA), should appear in My computer. I dont think it matters, which SATA header u connect it to, just as long as you select the right SATA to boot from in the BIOS. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 418559 | 2006-01-05 23:38:00 | thats not neccarly true. some of the SATA chipsets require drivers to be installed before windows, some don't. just follow the motherboards instructions. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 418560 | 2006-01-05 23:40:00 | Well, maybe . BUT the mobo's I've installed XP on (with SATA), have never needed drivers, unless its in RAID . Which are mostly ASUS mobos . Only way to find out, is to try it . If it doesn't work, then u need a floppy and the SATA drivers . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 418561 | 2006-01-06 00:01:00 | why not just install the drivers anyway? is it going to hurt it? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 418562 | 2006-01-06 00:04:00 | As Ali said, he has no floppy. So can't install drivers, even if he wanted to. And doesn't want to use a floppy. Unless something like a USB key works, if he's got one. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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