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I will remember that for my next install, in a year or so ;-)
Must say, it's the first time I hear this. I does explain the poor
explanation in the mobo's manual though... They only mention needing a disk
for a SATA/RAID install. I thought that meant: SATA or RAID...
--
Martin
The Netherlands
"Ender" <enderwiggin3rd@SBhotmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:05:47 +0100, "Martin" <nospam@nospam.nl> wrote:
>
>>I really think you're mistaken. I've installed two systems with the F6
>>option the last week... If the SATA drive is the only drive in the system
>>and you want to do a new Windows install on it, you will need to load the
>>drivers from disk.
>>You would have been right if you add a SATA drive to an existing system.
>>
>>> Wow, you have gotten a whole range of answers for this. You do NOT
>>> need to go through the F6 (third party drivers) when using a SATA
>>> drive in a non-raid setup. Windows XP will detect the drive fine
>>> without any special drivers. As with most newer systems, it will be
>>> necessary to provide XP with chipset drivers for your board once the
>>> initial installation is done, just as you would if you were using an
>>> EIDE drive.
>>>
>>> Ender
>>>
>>> "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
>>> nothing." Edmund Burke
>>
> Many people agree with you. The reality is, in a clean install of XP,
> if your bios can see it, XP will also. It worked that way for me in a
> clean 745P chipset install, and also an A7N8X (Nvidia Chipset) both
> with WD 74G Raptor SATA drives. I asked the same question when
> building my first systemswith a SATA boot drive and received a mixed
> venue of advice. The response from ASUS was: You can do it with or
> without installing drivers at the F6 prompt. They did point out that
> If you wish to do a "RAID ready" install, you can install the provided
> drivers at the F6 prompt, but if you have no intention of running RAID
> then you can skip that step. Windows XP will use the drivers:
>
> c:\windows\system32\drivers\disk.sys
> c:\windows\system32\drivers\PartMgr.sys
>
> Regards,
>
> Ender
>
> "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
> nothing." Edmund Burke