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Old 09-13-04, 04:53 AM Thread Starter   #1
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How to install WinXP home onto a SATA Drive (no IDE)????


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How do I install Windows XP Home onto a Serial ATA Drive?

I am building a new PC and dont have any IDE drives. Windows XP home (and pro) reports cant find hard drive.

I did a quick google but could not find any Seagate SATA drivers to install during the XP setup (pressing F6).

A article says to press F6 and insert disc with SATA drivers to install XP onto a SATA drive.

Seagates site is not much chop

Please help?
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Old 09-13-04, 05:03 AM   #2
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go into the bios and make sure all raid is turned off, then retry without trying to install any drivers from a floppy, you shouldn't need them if it's just a single drive, I had the same problem recently when I built my A64 system

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Old 09-13-04, 07:17 AM   #3
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You'll need to go to the MB manufacturer's site (or the site of the SATA controller manufacturer i.e. Intel, Highpoint, Sil, etc.), in order to locate and download the SATA controller drivers...Seagate won't have them. Even when connecting only one drive to the SATA controller, you'll need to have the controller drivers on a floppy ready to install...otherwise Windows setup won't be able to recognize the drive.


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Old 09-13-04, 09:41 PM   #4
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my sata drivers came on my motherboard CD.

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Old 09-14-04, 05:55 AM   #5
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you MAY have to tell your motherboard the boot order. If you dont allow for the RAID controller to be the 'primary' controller installing the floppy wont work. Be sure the BIOS settings allow the RAID array to be the 'first boot drive'. Also be SURE you have the RAID controller 'enabled' if it is on the motherboard. If you do not enabvle the RAID/SATA controller the install will not work. Then while installing Windows press F6 as instructed and insert the floppy you created from the manufacturers website. This will be possibly a (.zip)file or (.exe)file you will download from the makers of the SATA RAID CONTROLLER (more than likely the maker of your motherboard)(not the HDD drive maker)and create a floppy disk with it. That will be the floppy XP installer asks for when you boot set up XP and press F6.


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just make if boot from cd start to install windows press f6 and then load the sata drivers then it will format and install on your sata drive. But you must press f6 right at the begining of the windows install or it wont ask for the disk to load them. Your motherboard should of came with the sata drivers but if not here is the site to get them from. I dont know where exactly they are but my brother found them there.

http://www.siimage.com/products/starterkit_sii3112.asp

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