serial ATA hard disk not recognised

[David Chapman]

i have built a computer with a gigabyte 7VAXP ultra
motherboard - it has a seagate baracuda SATA hard drive.i
installed windows ME, which works fine - tried to upgrade
to XP - it tells me there is no hard drive installed!
help......

[Pete Baker]

David

You need to specify a "third-party driver" .. to allow XP to recognise the
SATA drive... During an upgrade installation, or a clean installation, that
requires you to press F6 when prompted, and to have on a floppy disk the
SATA driver. If you do not have the required floppy then, for an integrated
SATA controller, the manufacturer of your mainboard should have it available
for download.

Hope that helps
Pete

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"David Chapman" > wrote in message
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> i have built a computer with a gigabyte 7VAXP ultra
> motherboard - it has a seagate baracuda SATA hard drive.i
> installed windows ME, which works fine - tried to upgrade
> to XP - it tells me there is no hard drive installed!
> help......