help with sata new winxp installation

From: laj (jayjay_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:57:13 -0700

I have a new asus k8v se mb with amd64 3200+. I placed a single new
(unformated or partitioned) sata drive in the primary sata plug. (not
the raid plugs) The bios sees the drive. when winsetup is done with
ide cdrom I push F6 to install the promise sata drivers for the board
(from the asus web site) but when it's all loaded it says it can't
find a hd to install winxp on and that's it.
Help. Do I have to partition this thing first with fdisk on a dos
floppy? I thought winxp would do all this. ( i want one partition (120
gb) and ntfs. will any fdisk do?
thanks,
Jack

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