Loading drivers for OS on a SATA. 3

[Doodaddy]

I'm installin XP Pro on my SATA Hard drive. Ok, I have the RAID drivers on the floppy. My floppy is in working condition and my keyboard is recognized and works.

Some reason when it says to press F6 to load third party SCSI or RAID drivers, it doesn't respond and just acts as if I didn't press anything.

I was told that it isn't supposed to respond immediately when I press F6, that the menu to load the drivers will come later? I come to a screen where it says to load in the disk for drivers into the A:\. When I press enter for them to load, I get a "please wait" message, and then nothing. Right back to where it was.

I try to finish the installation, but the setup says it can't find any hard disks?

What am I doing wrong?

 

[paparazi]

Doodaddy
One SATA drive? cannot run a raid configuration.

You need to install your SATA controller drivers at F6 so that once into setup your hard disk is detected and your O/S can continue to install.

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[garebo]

This only has to do with the floppy. Some floppy drives are fussy or a bit out of specs and sometimes you have to make a few of the same install disks to try in your floppy drive. One may work and another may not. You find this a lot doing win98 boot disks, they work fine on one pc and wont work on another pc, so you make up a few of them to have on hand when this happens so you can just put another one in. Im not saying that is your problem but sometimes this does happen. paparazi's answer defines the actual problem you are having now.


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[Doodaddy]

Oh, well I thought was RAID drivers. I understood the purpose, just didn't have the words for it I guess.

I've remade the disk a few times, I guess I'll go buy a pack and make several of the disks and we'll see how that goes.

Thanks! This helps a lot!

 

[Freestone]

It has been awhile since I've done the F6 sequence, but I don't think it's enough to just press Enter when prompted to load the disk. If I recall correctly, you must first press the letter S in order to select the driver then press Enter.

 

[garebo]

Another thing i should point out. Again, it has to do with floppy disk drive. They do get "out of spec" and wont read any floppies at all or very few. There are a lot of mechanical parts inside as well. So its possible that your floppy disk drive is either pretty much on the way out. So perhaps borrowing one to find out would be a good idea. Or try transferring a small program on a floppy and see if your drive will read it. That may work but its possible that your floppy drive wont read a floppy disc made by another floppy drive from another pc. Thats where the "out of spec" comes in, I believe.


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[Doodaddy]

Well, I was skipping the part about being prompted to press S. I was talking about when I thought the problem lied.

Well, as far as the floppy drive goes, I built the computer in January and all the parts were new then. The only time I've used the floppy was to load the drivers for the SATA last time. I can check to see if it's still good. I was assuming so.

 

[garebo]

If its that new it likely is good then, but, still you can have the prob where the drive doesnt like one particular disk that you put in and will accept another. Just something to remember and try out when having a problem like this.


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[wolluf]

The only time I've used the floppy was to load the drivers for the SATA last time

Does this mean you have previously successfully loaded the drivers during an XP install? If so, what's changed since then?

PS. Try creating a win98 boot floppy (

http://www.bootdisk.com)

& see if machine will boot from it - should tell if floppy drive is working or not.

 

[Doodaddy]

Well, I couldn't remember how I did it last time. But I know what was different this time though..... It might would have helped if I plugged the floppy in right. I had the IDE cable in backwards.

Well. I feel rather stupid right now. The problem is solved.


Originally problem was a modem shorted causing the computer to freeze during start up. I think it's a motherboard problem, buy a new one, install it. Nothing. Eventually track it down to the modem. Go to install then it was the problem we were talking about.

But, everything is fine now. I'm back to full speed. Thanks for everything guys.

 

[garebo]

Dont worry, we all do these things, lol.


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