XP not recognising SATA drives
26 March 2005, 08:33 AM
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XP not recognising SATA drives
my 2x300gb SATA drives show ok in post screens but xp refuses to display them. SATA functions all enabled in the BIOS. running new gigabyte K8NXP-SLI board. only using the silicon image controller on the board, not the nForce one.
anyone any ideas.
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anyone any ideas.
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26 March 2005, 09:34 AM
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You need to load the correct driver from the CD supplied with the motherboard, same as with SCSI drives, prior to XP install.
26 March 2005, 09:47 AM
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Yep when going through the initial XP install screen (as you boot from the cd) it will say press F whatever to load SCSI drivers. You are then prompted to load drivers from another cd.
Never had to do it on mine tho (single 160gb). I thought it was only if you wanted to run a SATA RAID (which I assume you do if running 2x300gb drives).
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Never had to do it on mine tho (single 160gb). I thought it was only if you wanted to run a SATA RAID (which I assume you do if running 2x300gb drives).
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26 March 2005, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by P1Fanatic
Yep when going through the initial XP install screen (as you boot from the cd) it will say press F whatever to load SCSI drivers. You are then prompted to load drivers from another cd.
Never had to do it on mine tho (single 160gb). I thought it was only if you wanted to run a SATA RAID (which I assume you do if running 2x300gb drives).
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Never had to do it on mine tho (single 160gb). I thought it was only if you wanted to run a SATA RAID (which I assume you do if running 2x300gb drives).
Simon.
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26 March 2005, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by P1Fanatic
Yep when going through the initial XP install screen (as you boot from the cd) it will say press F whatever to load SCSI drivers. You are then prompted to load drivers from another cd
26 March 2005, 10:29 AM
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done all that guys. i pulled all my IDE drives out(2x80gb) so that i would only have SATA drives in my machine. when i did a fresh install of xp i did the F6 thing and installed a silicon image SATA driver from a floppy. when i got xp installed the machine rebooted but would not pick up the fresh install of xp from the SATA drive. my IDE detection had [NONE] for all drives including DVD drives. there is no option in the BIOS to first boot from a SATA drive which i thought odd on a board of this spec(Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI). anyways the only way i could get my machine going was to stick in one of the 80 gig IDE drives and install XP on that. machine is now working and in the POST process all SATA drives are found but XP refused to show them in explorer. really baffled. probably something real simple but unless you are sitting in front of the machine its kinda hard to explain. Hope i have given you guys some more info. any other thoughts?
TIA
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26 March 2005, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by bigsinky
SATA functions all enabled in the BIOS.
As well as enabling SATA in the bios & also on the Integrated Peripherals menu, did you set up the array on the RAID setup screen on load up? Is the array recognised?
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26 March 2005, 10:47 AM
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Array on setup says it is disabled. how do enable the array. i know next to nothing about RAID. the basics but not how to set up arrays (that is probably basic
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26 March 2005, 06:03 PM
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thanks for the help guys. ended up reinstalling xp on the IDE drive then going into services it asked did i want to convert my drives. Not formatted.............................DOH!!!! real Homer moment. now sitting with 1TB of disk space. should keep me going for a while. Now to see what i can O/C the winnie 3500 to
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should keep me going for a while. Now to see what i can O/C the winnie 3500 tocheers
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