Windows XP Installation not recognizing HD

[uyR]

User's trying to install Windows XP on new HD. When user is asked to choose HD it shows unknown device.

HD is SATA II WD 500gb. Is it because the drive is SATA II?

 

[Ploper001]

You need to have the SATA drivers on a floppy disk (or USB Flash Drive in Vista, not sure about XP) - at the beginning of the installation it'll say "Press F6 to load third party RAID or SCSI Drivers" at the bottom, or something to that effect.

 

[wolluf]

Yes - it has to be floppy drive for XP (only alternative is to build a slipstreamed install Cd with the drivers included).

 

[Ploper001]

What kind of world are we living in where we still have to have PCs with floppy drives just to install Windows lol?

By the way, why doesn't at least Vista come with SATA drivers built in (just like 95+ had IDE drivers)?? Seems ridiculous to me, but then there may be a good reason I don't know about...

 

[wolluf]

Ploer001 - Vista DOES come with SATA drivers built in (I for one nagged them during beta testing as they weren't there for a long time) - and it will take them off usb memory stick or CD/DVD if you do need to supply them (which will always be the case for some hardware)

 

[linney]

How Do I Install Windows XP On A SATA Hard Drive"

http://www.google.com/search?q="How...ft:&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&sa=N&tab=wg