Re: SATA drive setup help please.



Phillips wrote:
You should have a whatever.inf file on the floppy - don't bother
finding setup.exe. You can right click the .inf file and click
Install in the commands drop down menu; if you want to see what's in
the .inf file, click the Edit command in same menu list. Also, you
can install the .inf via Hardware Wizard.
Otherwise, if you did not install HDD yet:
Install the hard-drive (HDD), boot and open BIOS. You should find
the new SATA HDD installed - but might be presented as an IDE HDD -
pending your mobo and BIOS. Navigate BIOS and check if there is a
SATA (controller) enable option - theree might be none but the SATA
Raid option which you don't need. If you have to install the
controller, you might need to reboot. Pending your mobo setup, you
might need to install HDD drivers in Windows first... but very
unlikely. After HDD is 'seen' in BIOS' start XP. The Hardware Wizard might
discover the new HDD - unlikely, though, since the HDD is not
formatted for XP; if the Wizard finds it, just feed it the drivers
from the floppy - find the .inf file.
If Hardware Wizard does not start, go Control Panel/ Administrative
Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management and you should see your
SATA HDD there. Right click and check Properties or Format options.
Use the same format as for the other HDD(s) you have installed; NTSF
is recommended at least for safety reasons.
Michael

Ok, first of all the drive is already installed and formatted. It is
however not installed as SATA and saves extemely slow. I have the floppy
that came with the MOBO with several .inf files and did read that these must
be in a folder C:Program Files\Intel. Here I have placed many other files
DLed from Intel site. I have always gotten hardware detection error so per
your instructions I will now go into BIOS and look for the proper
configuration there. Then after reading your post several more times I hope
everything will be in order.
Thank you very much for your help and I will post back with my results.

Regards.

John





"John" <ModelMan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have floppy with MoBo RAID drivers and need to know how to
install. I have Googled to no end about the process. I see no setup
files on floppy that I can run. I try booting with XP CD but system
refuses to work. Anyone have any tips?

Thanks
MM


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