Re: XP won't install on SATA HDD

Press F6 very early on during the Setup routine and feed it the SATA drivers. Pay close attention when the XP setup starts, early on at the bottom of the screen you will see a prompt telling you to press F6 to install Raid or Mass Storage Device drivers. You have to catch it at that time or else you will have to reboot and start the setup routine again. You MUST supply the drivers on a floppy diskette, the setup program will not accept the drivers from any other media source. The SATA drivers should be on your motherboard driver CD. Read the documentation for your mobo or go to the Asus web site and see if the drivers are available there for download. If you have no diskette drive you can temporarily fit one to the computer, if not you will have to slipstream the drivers to a Windows XP cd that you will have to burn.

John

twjeff wrote:

I cannot get XP to intall on my new SATA drive. I have a brand new Asus p5b deluxe motherboard, with a 320GB SataII HDD. It will only recognize 131MB of this drive to partition... What gives? I thought this issue was resolved already.... Please help! I only have my oritional XP disk, which does not have big drive or SP 1 or 2 on it..

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