Needing help with a new Serial ATA (SATA) Hard-drive.

[Ape]

Hey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I recently bought a new Seagate 160gb SATA Hard drive. I plugged it all in. Downloaded the DiskWizard for it. and installed it. I then put the WinXp Pro disk in... Then it says "There is no installed hard-drives on this computer", which confused me... As I installed it with DiskWizard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do I have to get any special SATA Drivers or something for my motherboard. It's a Gigabyte motherboard, so I'm not sure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Help would be greatly appreciated. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

//Mitch

[kingjoe2002]

Does ur mobo even support SATA drives?

[Pyro]

Are you trying to install an operating system on it or just adding it as a storage drive? If you want to make Windows recognize it when you install Windows, you will need to insert a floppy with SATA-drivers provided by your motherboard manufacturer to make it recognize the controller. This does not apply to all motherboards, but to many.

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You many also have to disable RAID or something in your BIOS. Some motherboards treat SATA drives as RAID and will hence not pick them up during install.

 

 

 

Can't remember the exact reason but it was something like that.

[Ape]

Yes, my motherboard does support SATA drives... And I think Pyro's right... But I don't know where to get them. :S

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Rick, I changed 'RAID' to 'BASE' after the installation... Would that make a difference or would it be advisable to change it before, then re-install it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

//Mitch