XP Install on New SATA Drive

[ilya1]

Hi All,

I am building a system with the new ASUS P4P800 Deluxe MB and a Maxtor SATA drive. I cannot get the darn Win XP setup to recognize the drive no matter what I do. Downloaded the Intel 82801ER Raid Accelerator drivers and created a floppy for the F6 install. Seems to load the drivers but still later tells me that the HD cannot be found.

Here is the key thing - I do not want a RAID setup (I will only be using one disk). Do I still have to load the drivers and configure the RAID? Can I use a SATA drive on a non-RAID setup with the 82801ER controller?

Sorry but I'm a complete newbie on SATA/RAID setups. BTW, ASUS tech support is researching this for me but I thought I'd give the gurus here a try.

TIA!

Ilya

 

[EeyoreX]

When I set up my drives on my MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR motherboard (PATA with a SATA converter, I wanted to use the SATA channels, non RAID) I still needed to enter the RAID setup and set up a one drive array. I found this a silly method and it took me a while to figure it out but once I did it worked great. I can't say for sure that's what you have to do, but maybe give it a try and see if you can set up Windows after taking that step.

\Dan

 

[ilya1]

Thanks Dan.

I think my issue is either a bad drive or incompataibility with the mobo. The tech told me that the drive should still appear in the BIOS and it doesn't. This is irrespective of setting up RAID.

RMA time baby...

 

[EeyoreX]

I am not sure about the BIOS on an Asus board, but my BIOS won't recognize drives attached to the SATA controller or IDE3 (as it shares resources and is controlled by the Promise SATA controller) I could only "see" the drives when I entered the RAID setup screen (IIRC Ctrl-F for Promise?) and then the computer could "see" the drives. This is similar to having your drives conected to a PCI card-based IDE RAID controller, the BIOS can not detect those drives.

Good luck!

\Dan