How do I install the OS on a SATA Drive?

[LABachlr]

I have a HD hooked up to SATA1 (no HD on IDE 0; DVD-RW on IDE 1), but when I try to install Win2k, it says that it can not find a HD. The Promise setting is enabled, and I tried both the RAID setting (I do NOT want to set up a RAID config.) and the IDE setting under the Promise setting, but to no avail.

Do I have to hook it up to the IDE channel to install the OS, and then switch it back to the SATA channel? I haven't had to do that with other boards when installing on a SATA HD.

Again, the mobo that I am using is the ASUS A8V Deluxe.

 

[WW2Planes1]

You've got to press "F6" at the initial load screen and install the drivers for the Promise Chipset. (from a floppy)
(These: http://www.asus.com/support/download/se...=1&f_name=378ata_100104528.zip~zaqwedc )

 

[LABachlr]

I just tried that and it didn't work. Everything is plugged in and there are no prongs for jumpers on the back. It's a Seagate 200GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA HD.

 

[Dufrane]

Do you have a regular IDE HDD hooked up to the primary channel???

 

[LABachlr]

No. Nothing is hooked up to the Primary IDE channel, and the DVD-RW is hooked up to the secondary IDE channel.

There is one thing that I noticed, though. When it boots up, it shows that it is looking at the SATA drives, but then it says that the BIOS is not installed. Is there a different BIOS for the SATA feature? I wouldn't think so. Never heard of that. I'm in the process of updating the BIOS to 1009 right now.

 

[LABachlr]

Just talked to Asus tech support. Did not need the Promise drivers. Needed the other SATA drivers from the mobo disk. Copied the following files to a floppy and then installed them using the above method.

D:\Drivers\VIARAID\6420RAID\DriverDisk\SATA\TXTSETUP.OEM
D:\Drivers\VIARAID\6420RAID\DriverDisk\SATA\VT8237
D:\Drivers\VIARAID\6420RAID\DriverDisk\SATA\Winxp

It worked!

 

[Shenkoa]

You need a floppy disk with the SATA Driver on it, XP's setup will locate the disk and install the driver before the OS continue's. It wont work off of a CD so you will have to use a floppy disk.

 

[nikko]

Originally posted by: Shenkoa
You need a floppy disk with the SATA Driver on it, XP's setup will locate the disk and install the driver before the OS continue's. It wont work off of a CD so you will have to use a floppy disk.

cripes....i don't have a floppy drive. am i just screwed?

 

[D1gger]

If you GOOGLE it, you can find a way to slipstream a WinXp installation CD with SATA drivers. But you need a working PC to do this. I assume that the same procedure would work to slipstream Win2k.

 

[johncatral]

I never knew about slipstreaming! Definitely a great idea! Thanks!

 

[WPFossil]

Most of the newer mobos will let you install XP onto SATA without pressing F6. Original post concerned W2K, which usually needs the F6/floppy disk combo (or slipstreaming).

 

[LABachlr]

Originally posted by: WPFossil
Most of the newer mobos will let you install XP onto SATA without pressing F6. Original post concerned W2K, which usually needs the F6/floppy disk combo (or slipstreaming).

Actually, my post concerned XP Pro SP2. It did not allow me to install on the SATA drive without the drivers from the mobo CD.

 

[Bozo]

Generally if the motherboard has an Intel SATA controller, Win2 and XP will both install without drivers on a floppy.
If the motherboard uses something else, then you need the floppy.

Bozo

 

[BigPete]

Originally posted by: Bozo
Generally if the motherboard has an Intel SATA controller, Win2 and XP will both install without drivers on a floppy.
If the motherboard uses something else, then you need the floppy.

Bozo

nForce3 and nForce4 boards that use the SATA controller provided by the nForce chipset do not require drivers at installation time either.

 

[keichan82]

Hi. I currently have the same problem. The difference is that I had my computter up and running for about 5 months and decided to separate my raid 0. Now, it won't install XP. The mobo recognizes the hard drive, but the XP Install doesn't. I tried all the ways metioned and still nothing. Is there any options in the bios that I need to change to make this work? I already changed the Raid to Operating Mode.
Thanks.

 

[micnn]

Your SATA0 drive is mapped to P.IDE.master, and SATA1 to P.IDE.slave. Make sure P.IDE master is enabled in BIOS, even though no HD is utilizing it... other than that, don't know what to suggest.