Windows XP and SATA drives

Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

My SATA had a jumper that had to be set to enable, but the manual was
incorrect on what was enabled and disabled.

I turned SATA on in the bios and set the drive jump to enable. Booted it
installed fine and I partitioned and formatted it and all was fine.


"Matt" wrote in message
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Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

What do you mean "I try to run the installation through my XP disk"..?

XP disc
"Matt" wrote in message
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Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

"Matt" wrote in message

Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

Some [most?] SATA interfaces are not supported by Windows XP.
You need to press F6 at the beginning of the install process (when it
prompts you to do so) and then later SETUP will prompt for you to insert
a disk with the SATA drivers on it.

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Hi Matt

Unless you have a mainboard which includes native support for SATA... which
you don't seem to have... if you did the standard IDE drivers would be
sufficient.

In order to install XP you'll need to follow a particular method to install
the SATA drivers.

You'll need to have the SATA drivers available on a floppy disk ready for
the install process - if your mainboard manufacturer has not supplied a
floppy disk with the drivers you'll find them on your mainboard CD or
manufacturers website.

Make sure that, if you need to copy onto a floppy disk, you transfer all the
files from the SATA driver folder or from the download from your mainboard
manufacturers website - special attention needed to ensure you include all
necessary files.

Check your mainboard manual for the appropriate BIOS settings for booting
from SATA.

As the XP set-up begins you will be prompted to 'Press F6 to specify
third-party RAID or SCSI drivers' - at this point you should press F6 and,
when asked, insert the floppy disk with the relevant drivers. Select the
appropriate driver when asked and continue with the setup. There may be
some delays during this process and the set-up may appear to be continuing
without recognising the key-press - so don't panic.

When successful you'll be able to select the HD to install on. If you are
not given the HD you have not completed the procedure correctly. Check you
are using the correct drivers, have any relevant BIOS updates for your
mainboard, and try again.

Hope that helps
Pete
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"Matt" wrote
Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

"Matt" said in :
Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

If the SATA ports are on the motherboard then it is likely but not
required that the BIOS includes support for them. However, you
obviously must have BIOS configured to enable SATA support. If it is a
SATA card then the system BIOS won't have support for that card. You
will need to hit F6 when prompted at the start of the the Windows
install so you later get prompted to insert the floppy with the driver.
SATA on a card uses its own BIOS as do SCSI cards, and expansion cards
that have their own BIOS get treated like they are all SCSI host
adapters so you are expected to notify the Windows installation that a
driver must be later specified at the point when it starts to hunt
around for mass storage devices (i.e., hard drives).

You are having a problem with the hardware and yet you provide no
details on what hardware you have. Ask vague questions, get vague
answers.


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"*Vanguard*" wrote
"Matt" said
Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

If the SATA ports are on the motherboard then it is likely but not
required that the BIOS includes support for them. However, you
obviously must have BIOS configured to enable SATA support. If it is a
SATA card then the system BIOS won't have support for that card. You
will need to hit F6 when prompted at the start of the the Windows
install so you later get prompted to insert the floppy with the driver.
SATA on a card uses its own BIOS as do SCSI cards, and expansion cards
that have their own BIOS get treated like they are all SCSI host
adapters so you are expected to notify the Windows installation that a
driver must be later specified at the point when it starts to hunt
around for mass storage devices (i.e., hard drives).

You are having a problem with the hardware and yet you provide no
details on what hardware you have. Ask vague questions, get vague
answers.


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Not all answers were that 'vague' Vanguard

Pete
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"Pete Baker" said in :

Not all answers were that 'vague' Vanguard

Okay, so my statement should've been "Ask vague questions, get lots
vague, inappropriate, or irrelevant answers and, if you're lucky, one
that actually directly touches upon your problem." And should have been
followed with, "More details, please."

Even a highly detailed reply is vague if it has no idea against what
software or hardware it applies, like tossing darts overboard at an
unseen target somewhere underwater and not knowing if you're even in the
general vacinity of the target. Knowing the actual hardware - brand,
model, motherboard, etc. - allows for a much narrower range of
guesswork. The poster may only know their brand and model of computer
but, at least, that's something better than nothing.

Most of us guessed at the "F6 at startup" solution while some also
mentioned the possibility that BIOS was not correctly configured. Of
course, none of us thought about asking if the hard drive ever got
hooked up to the SATA port as we assumed that was done and that the
data/control cable was good, and the same for the power cable, and that
the SATA drive actually started spinning. Of the responses that were
there when I read the thread, all were equivalent guesses to mine, and I
consider mine vague, so I consider all the responses just a vague
because they really don't have enough info to know what hardware they
are trying to target. Maybe this, maybe that, could be something else.
More details are needed. Otherwise, generic or generalized help (i.e.,
vague) is all that can be proffered.

To Matt:

You should be able to look at your computer to tell us the brand and
model. If it is custom built or a clone, the freebie AIDA32 utility
will provide some of that information, or you might tell from the
purchase order showing the various parts that went into the custom box
(or you could call the jobber that built the custom box). AIDA32 can
even come in handy on name-brand boxes since many, like Dell, merely
sell based on a features list rather than on a fixed set of components,
so you don't really know what's inside the box.

Anyone know of other or better utilities, preferrably free, to suggest
to posters on how to obtain specific and useful information about their
system (so they can then tell us volunteers)?

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Matt wrote:
Has anybody had any trouble with the XP installation not
recognizing Serial ATA hard drives? It seems for some
reason that when I try to run the installation through my
XP disc it does not see the hard drive Ihave installed.

Hi,

you need the SATA driver from your manufacturer. During Setup
press F6 key to install additional drivers must be on a 3,5"
disk.

If you want to install it on an exeiting XP System plug-in your
card start XP and insert the driver disk/cd. Then it will work.

Anton