Reinstall WIN XP on SATA Drive

Sennaha · Post by **Sennaha** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:12 pm

I am going to break down and do a fresh install on Win XP. I have the BIOS set to boot off of CD. Windows starts the installation process, then says it can't find a hard drive. In the BIOS it recognizes the all Hard Drives. The Hard drive is a SATA Western Dig. 74GB Raptor. I'm sure it is something simple. This is my first machine using a SATA drive. I did look for a driver on the WD site for the drive, but just saw some tools etc. I think I have to hit the F6 button and load something, but I want to be sure. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks

123cool · Post by **123cool** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:34 pm

on your driver disk for the motherboard there should be a option to create a floppy, this floppy contains the driver for sata, press f6 on installation and insert the floppy install the driver and things should be good to go.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:36 pm

Originally posted by 123cool
on your driver disk for the motherboard there should be a option to create a floppy, this floppy contains the driver for sata, press f6 on installation and insert the floppy install the driver and things should be good to go.

He said it.. You need to load the SATA drivers for your mobo's raid controller in order to use the SATA drive on the install.

GL!

eGo

Sennaha · Post by **Sennaha** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:40 pm

I just did that, thanks. Unfortunately it did the same thing. I am going to make the disk again.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:08 am

driver disk for the motherboard there should be a option to create a floppy, this floppy contains the driver for sata,

Not that long ago, maybe a year, we were discussing how useless floppies are and many people not having floppy drives any longer. I have 4 computers but only 1 floppy drive in the house. I think it still works

So to use newer system boards are we going to have to start installing floppies again or is there another option like burn to CD?

I have not checked floppy prices latelly but I would geuss it's as cheap to waste a CD for 1 meg as it is to buy a floppy disk, maybe less.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:21 am

You can buy a USB Floppy Drive and just use it as needed. All modern mobos support a USB floppy in BIOS.

Most modern mobos also don't require seperate SATA drivers. More and more of them are using the generic SATA driver that comes with WinXP SP2, then you install the mobo manufacturer's driver once Windows is up and running.

Finally, you can also slip-stream the drivers onto a WinXP install CD.

Windows Vista supports loading SATA drivers from the CD, hard drive, USB or other device from a clean install.