Re: SATA drive delema

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From: R. C. White (rc_at_corridor.net)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:44:54 -0600

Hi, LtFass.

Nice rig! ;<)

Although RAID (both IDE and SATA) is available on my mobo, I've never used
RAID at all, so maybe I just don't understand a key part of your problem.
But maybe I can help a little.

The F6 key is needed only during WinXP Setup, and only if you will be
booting from a HD/controller/chipset for which drivers are not on the WinXP
CD-ROM. (I had to use F6 to install drivers for my boot device, which is an
IBM SCSI HD, connected to an Adaptec host adapter. My mobo has 6 SATA
connectors, in addition to the usual 2 IDE/ATA-133 connectors, which have
two IDE HDs and 2 DVDs connected.) To use SATA (or other exotic drives) as
secondary drives, all you need to do is to install their drivers after
booting into WinXP, much like you would install drivers for a printer or
digital camera.

You apparently have already done the first step, which is to boot from the
WinXP CD-ROM and use the F6 key to install the SATA drivers from a floppy
diskette. Until these boot-device drivers are integrated into WinXP by
Setup, WinXP cannot finish Setup, but stalls after the text-mode phase when
it tries for the first time to boot from the new drive into the GUI phase of
Setup.

The second step is to boot into WinXP and use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc
from the Command Prompt) to recognize the HD, then partition and format it.
You MIGHT need to install the SATA drivers for this step, but I think all
recent mobo/chipset/BIOS combos have the support built in so that Disk
Management will recognize the secondary HD automatically.

RC 

-- 
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"LtFass" <LtFass@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:FB8D7E09-A184-45F6-B2A9-5CC55BB3BD14@microsoft.com...
>I have a new mother board 925XBC,with a 560 LGA775 Processor 4 gig of ram 
>and
> two seagate 7200 SATA hard drives.
> Now the problem!
> I have tried every
> configuration I can come up with and still cant get windows XP pro  (brand
> new) to find the hard drives in a sata configuration. If I set the legacy 
> it
> will find one drive and load xp on it and now I have "C" and "D" drives I
> have tried RAID0 and RAID1 configs, set the legacy to all the differnt
> settings. Also i have done the F6 and tried different disks just to be 
> sure
> the disk werent broken. I have made sure the bios is set for the sata 
> drive
> name. and looked at most of the post here and tried the ideas.
>
> Help I have run out of options

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