Have bought Maxtor 160GB SATA drive for additional storage on WinXP PC.
SATA is enabled in BIOS. Motherboard is P4TSP-D2
Do I still need to install SATA drivers if there is no operating system on it? If so, how? since I am not installing XP, and all posts I have found say "F6 during install".
Strange thing is:
Can see it in Device Manager and Disk Management.
Tried to format drive to NTFS a couple times using Disk Management. It gets to the end and says "Windows could not complete formatting", and then it is no longer visible anywhere.
After reboot, disk is visible again in Device Manager and Disk Management.
SATA is enabled in BIOS. Motherboard is P4TSP-D2
Do I still need to install SATA drivers if there is no operating system on it? If so, how? since I am not installing XP, and all posts I have found say "F6 during install".
Strange thing is:
Can see it in Device Manager and Disk Management.
Tried to format drive to NTFS a couple times using Disk Management. It gets to the end and says "Windows could not complete formatting", and then it is no longer visible anywhere.
After reboot, disk is visible again in Device Manager and Disk Management.