SATA on P4PE

[bkdraft]

I have a Asus P4PE motherboard. I am currently running a Maxtor IDE HD. I have added a Mator 200GB SATA drive to the primary SATA connector. How do I get Win XP to recognized the drive? Is there a way to use this drive as the only drive and eliminate the IDE Maxtor? Is there a way to just used this drive for storage? What are my options? I have never been around any SATA drives so this is all new to me. Any help I can get would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
James

 

[madcow235]

In the bios there is an option to make the SATA drive into HDD01 or something like that. Just look through there i know it exists.

 

[bkdraft]

No luck so far. Only thing I have found so far is maybe I have to hook the drive to the PRI_RAID1 connector. But to do this I have to have an adapter. Any other ideas?

 

[bkdraft]

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[Challenger]

Has the drive been formatted?

 

[bkdraft]

NO, it has not been formatted. I have not been able to get the computer to see it yet.
James

 

[bkdraft]

What about using one of the adapters and hooking it to the IDE connector? Anyone used one of these and do they work OK? Maybe if I can get the drive to be found and copy my old hard drive to the new SATA, then maybe get it to work on the SATA connector? Any ideas? Thoughts?
Thanks,
James

 

[Jari]

I'm about to install seagate sata 120 gb . I just realized that the drive arrived bare. I have the red cable from p4pe mb box. Clearly I need one more. Where did you get that one? By looking at the drive schematics i presume that the cable supplied by asus is just for signal interface so the wider ribbon missing is for power?
Confused

 

[Challenger]

Have you tried using Maxblast utility disk that comes with the drive? It's a bootable CD and does a great job of formatting

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: bkdraft
What about using one of the adapters and hooking it to the IDE connector? Anyone used one of these and do they work OK? Maybe if I can get the drive to be found and copy my old hard drive to the new SATA, then maybe get it to work on the SATA connector? Any ideas? Thoughts?
Thanks,
James

I don't think there are any SATA - IDE adaptors. It only goes the other way: PATA to SATA adaptors.

Besides, seeing a beautiful SATA drive hooked up to a motherboard with a clunky PATA cable would be a travesty!

bkdraft - make sure you have the latest BIOS for your motherboard for one. Many SATA adaptors were'nt properly recognized until later BIOS versions. Then make sure you have the latest SATA driver for your OS (although, it should be plug and play).

Then, boot into Windows with your SATA drive hooked up (or boot up first then plug it in - SATA is hot-swappable, which is beautiful) and format it.

Then, make sure you have the SATA INF drivers on a floppy for your proper SATA controller and boot into Windows XP install. Hit F6 immediately to install the specific driver and then install Windows as normal.

^ I may have gotten ahead of myself a bit here, but these are some problems I know I ran into installing my first SATA HD .