Re: SATA drive setup help please.



Phillips wrote:
1. Go to Intel website and download the latest drivers for your
chipset; there's a Chipset Info utility on same site that you can use
to identify Intel hardware. Be sure to download the XP versions.
1.a You might have an older SATA (1.0) controller while your HDD is
NCQ; hence, your NCQ HDD might go "off-line" and needs a few secs to
wake up - while XP freezes.
2. Check that the SATA cable is correctly connected in the SATA Port
0 (you should have 2 or 4 SATA onboard ports); try another SATA cable
also and make sure the SATA cable is not touched by other cables that
might press it when you install the case door/lid. Better test the
machine w/out the PC case cover and gently check the connections at
both ends while in XP. 3. Go BIOS... check "Configure SATA as Raid" set to
NO.
4. In BIOS check that the Boot Drive is set to your XP drive - at
boot time, F8 (or other key) might give you the option to pick a boot
device. 5. HDD manufacturer's website should have downloadable utilities
for
testing the correct installation of the HDD.
Michael

Thanks greatly. I have RAID/SATA running fine now. The drive is faster than
any of the others I have. There is however a conflict with my drives on the
Promise card. I had to remove the disk that was in the drawer to allow the
SATA drive and the OS to boot. It now seems I can use only one or the other.
I have well over a dozen drives in drawers all on cable select so I guess if
one doesn't work they all won't. Do you have any ideas? I have not tried a
different plug in the Promise card which I will do now as an other last
resort.

John




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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

I Enabled Intel RAID and SATA in BIOS but when booting with SATA
drive connected will prevent OS from loading. If I disconnect drive
widows loads fine. I loaded .inf file but this might have to be
removed and installed again. Then again I am just guessing at this
point.

"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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