SATA, Fresh XP Install

[Lurker28]

Seagate Barracuda 120GB SATA HD

I was doing a fresh install, the mobo finds the hard drive in the prompt screen, however windows XP boot disc does not find a hard drive. I've enabled SATA on the motherboard, but still no success...any ideas?

 

[rvnguy]

Lurker28,

you will need to copy your "SATA" drivers to a 3.5 floppy disk.


Boot from the CD and when prompted press "F6" to install the SATA drivers. As you have already enabled SATA in your BIOS, you should then be good to go. For more detail see:

Use of "F6" during XP Install

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314859/

rvnguy

"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[Frank4d]

Many SATA MOBOs come with the drive configured for RAID (default) in BIOS. If you are not using RAID (you aren't if you only have one SATA drive)... set it to IDE mode in the BIOS.

 

[rvnguy]

Frank4d,
beware:

SATA drives are not on the IDE controller. Setting to IDE mode is not the option you want.

SATA does not have to established as RAID.

rvnguy

"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[Frank4d]

I am aware SATA drives are not on the IDE controller. However, in the BIOS setup there is an option for RAID or not. And on many MOBOs that option is called RAID or IDE. If you only have one SATA drive and that option is set to RAID in the BIOS, Windows XP will not detect a bootable hard drive.