Sata drivers for XP

[paul85]

Hello,

I am trying to recover a XP Pro installation. I have 2 Seagate SATA drives connected to a Sil 3114, on a ASUS K8N-e Deluxe, is there a way to create a driver disk so XP will recognize the drive? I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks in advance

Paul

 

[Emerald]

if the two drives are NOT in a RAID configuration use the IDE drivers

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=K8N-E+Deluxe&p=1&s=20

 

[paul85]

I changed the bios to SATA instead of raid and XP still did not find them

 

[Emerald]

if the drives were configured as a RAID the BIOS settings needs to stay RAID and you need to download the RAID drivers from the ASUS website

 

[paul85]

Reset the bios downloaded 1.0.0.7 from Asus, extracted the files and copied to a floppy. Win does not appear to see the files. Get msg "...no mass storage devices..."
Does the floppy need to be formated as 720k? Or am I missing something else?

 

[paul85]

Emerald,

Thanks for the help, downloaded the files again and it solved he problem. Apparently my FDD was bad, replaced it then Windows recovery could see them.

Again thanks