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"Tad Ki" <tadki49@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Ok I found the SATA drivers setup menu but *which* one do I select, the
menu
| has about 10 choices.
|
| I do not want to set up RAID I want to connect a single WD 36Gb raptor to
| Sata0 and use it as my boot/XP drive.
I think it would be best to load the ICH5R driver and use the 82801ER
controller, as if you don't the SATA will remap to IDE, reducing your IDE
options should you want them later. By installing ICH5R and enabling RAID
now, you won't need to do it later should you decide to go RAID.
I started with a single PATA boot drive, then moved to SATA (36gb Raptor)
using ICH5R as mentioned above, and then later added another Raptor for
RAID0. I wouldn't use the drivers from the CD, as they may be obsolete. I
pulled mine from Intel, the specific location I didn't bookmark, but you can
DL them from the Gigabyte site. The following is the procedure I followed,
assuming you already have Windows installed and don't want to re-install:
1: DL latest SATA drivers and copy to floppy.
2: Enter bios, enable on-chip ICH5R (not SIL3112) SATA controller and RAID
mode.
3: Boot into XP and when new hardware is found point to floppy for drivers.
4: Power down & install SATA drive.
5: Reboot into Norton Ghost and clone drive.
6: Reboot into bios and change boot order (floppy, SATA, CDROM for me).
At this point you should be able to boot into WinXP with the new boot drive.