Windows wont see my SATA HDD!!

[I Saw OJ]

BIOS is able to see the SATA HDD fine while doing POST. However, when I try to do a clean instill of XP on that drive, I press F6 and load the proper drivers, then when it gets to the screen to select the disk you want to use, it shows no disks listed. When I load XP from my IDE HDD and search for the SATA in divice manager it shows nothing. It seems that windows just refuses to see my SATA HDD.

seth

 

[montag451]

Try disconnecting IDE hdd, and you might have to press F6 whilst loading the setup [to load drivers for SCSI or RAID = sata comes under this] then put in the floppy that came with the mobo

 

[I Saw OJ]

Did that, tried disconnecting the IDE drive and loaded the drivers from the mobo disk. Yet during the XP setup where it asks me to select which drive to load XP on, nothing is listed.


seth

 

[montag451]

is the raid disabled in bios? should be
is the sata/scsi enabled in bios? should be
let us know

 

[I Saw OJ]

RAID is disabled in bios. And the sata/scsi is enabled.

Now when trying to install, at the screen where I pick which HDD I install to, it gives me this message;

"setup could not install to the selected partition.

You can only install to GPT disks on IA-64 machines and MBR disks on X-86 machines.

You can only upgrade installations on GPT disks on IA-64 machines and MBR disks on X-86 machines"

WTF message is that?


seth

 

[I Saw OJ]

I found out what that message means here but it says to change the hard disk back to a MBR in the admin tools, but the disk isnt listed in windows.


seth

 

[I Saw OJ]

*update*


I was able to format the drive in windows, now it does see the drive in windows. However, when I go to do a fresh install of XP on the SATA HDD it doesnt see it, in the XP setup, even when I press f6 and load the drivers.

any ideas?

seth

 

[Uncle Bob]

1. is your sata drive connected to the promise controller ports or the via controller port
2. are you installing the correct driver (promise/via)
3. is the correct controller set to non-raid mode
4. what is the boot order configuration set in the bios (can you select either the via/promise controller in the boot order as 1,2 or 3)
5. are you installing 32bit XP or the beta 64bit version?

 

[I Saw OJ]

Originally posted by: Uncle Bob
1. is your sata drive connected to the promise controller ports or the via controller port
2. are you installing the correct driver (promise/via)
3. is the correct controller set to non-raid mode
4. what is the boot order configuration set in the bios (can you select either the via/promise controller in the boot order as 1,2 or 3)
5. are you installing 32bit XP or the beta 64bit version?

1. The promise controller
2. Yes, the promise controller
3. Yes, I have it set-up in bios to SATA mode
4. I have it set to; floppy, cd-rom, ide HDD, and yes, the SATA drive is selectable as a boot source
5. I am installing 32bit XP

A little update, I was able to find the SATA HDD in windows and did format it. Now in windows i can play with it, move files around, format it, stuff like that. Its just in the windows xp setup that it wont see it.


seth

 

[GunDog]

This might be redundant but have you tried to use the VIA controller yet?

Paul

 

[I Saw OJ]

I have, same thing happens as with the promise controller.


seth

 

[GunDog]

I have a ABIT NF7S v2 and sata doesn't work on it unless both sata raid and sata/scsi is turned on in bios. Even tho I used just 1 Raptor.

Worth a shot if you have not tried it already.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Hmm, interesting idea, I'll give that a shot.


seth