Re: XP Setup doesnt see SATA drive... and more
From: peter (peter_at_nomalarky.ca)
Date: 12/24/04
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:54:30 -0700
You need to load the storage controller.......not necesarily the RAID driver
since you most likely will not be using RAID with one SATA drive.
peter
"Dom" <Dom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8088DA6A-D50B-4FAD-8BD7-D320153B7A64@microsoft.com...
> Alright, starting off, I'm not that computer literate, however, I am familiar
> with putting comps together and some tech info. Though I'm at a halt.
> Everything hardware-wise is connected properly in my comp. (My system is at
> the bottom)
> I am trying to go through Windows XP Pro setup (the 6 floppy disk setup from
> www.microsoft.com/) as well as setting up my SATA drivers through another
> floppy so that my hard disk drive will be picked up. I go through three
> floppies of the windows xp setup and half way through the fourth floppy, it
> basically asks me to put the floppy in that has my drivers. After windows
> setup asks me for the driver disk, it reads the floppy and then it gives me
> the screen to where i'd have to press the 's' key to choose the third party
> drivers i want to load. I hit 's' and it continues with two choices:
>
> NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER
> {and}
> NIVIDIA NForce Storage Controller
>
> I was wondering if there is a certain order I have to load these, or if I
> only need one, or what. If you could help me, I'd very much appreciate it!
> What happened first is I chose only the NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER. Before the
> end of the fourth windows setup floppy disk, it gives me the error:
> 'nvraid.sys not found' I've checked the floppy with the SATA drivers on it,
> and surely enough, it does have nvraid.sys; is there a problem here?? and how
> bad??
>
> System:
> AMD Athlon 64-bit CPU
> Chaintech Zenith ZNF3-250 NVIDIA Chipset
> 80GB Seagate 7800 Barracuda hard disk drive
> Radeon 9600 series video card
> (Trying to install Windows XP Pro)
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