windows doesnt see new sata drive

[joozy]

well i got a new drive for my moms computer as her other one took a crap.. new seagate 160 gb hdd sata..she has a older computer an asus a7n8x deluxe with 1.5 gb ram and xp 2400+

so i take out the old ide hdd.. fire in the new sata drive, fire in the windows cd.. i see the drive detected by the silicon image raid controller.. hit enter and it says windows does not detect a hard drive... formatting shouldnt matter because windows cant see the drive. i try to boot the seagate tools and it crashes on me.. and i dont think i need the raid drivers for the mobo, because its only a single drive.. and windows should detect it..


what gives?

 

[Trashman]

That board is on the old side, it may not have native sata support which maybe why it has said controller, i would check manual or asus website, you may just need a sata driver to install windows.

 

[joozy]

i have the Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller

any ive tired about 10 different drivers and still it says to insert the driver disc..

ahh im going nuts.

 

[moonsite]

How did you try to install the driver? It seems like the problem is with the controller. If the hard drive is detected in the BIOS, then you just need to install the driver before installing Windows. Also in the BIOS, make sure you also enable boot from the SATA controller. For older board, usually boot from IDE is just for the PATA.

 

[joozy]

i tried to install the driver by putting them on a floppy and pressing f6 on windows setup.. but when i do.. i press "s" and then put in the floppy but it doesnt detect the the silicon image 3112 drivers from the floppy

 

[Sensai]

list all the driver files on the floppy