no luck whatsoever in getting my SATA drive to be recognised during the win xp setup. I have looked all over to try and find out how to install windows on a SATA drive, and while I have learned much from this, It still doesn't seem to work with me. When in...

Windows XP/SRV2003)" VCOMBORAID_I386_WIN2K="VIA VT8251/8237/8237A/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows 2K)" VCOMBORAID_I386_NT4="VIA VT8251/8237/8237A/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows NT4)" [Files.SCSI.VCOMBORAID_I386_NT5] driver = D-I386-NT5-RAID,...

windows on the SATA drive. So, my goals are as follows: 1. Get BIOS to recognize the sata drive. 2. Install Windows XP on the sata drive. FYI, the BIOS has been updated to the most recent version. interesting, I am having the exact same problem with...

IDE windows sees IDE drive as C:\ - SATA boots to SATA-harddrive\windows, SATA windows sees SATA drive as C:\ But then i found the stumper. because win XP builds the MBR during install based on weather you have IDE drive or SATA drive, i am unable to boot...

know is when my brother bought his S-ATA 1 HDD he installed Windows XP SP2 on it [the 1 Win XP was on the 80 Gb ATA drive] so when I installed it I typed F6 in Setup to install windows on a S-ATA HDD [i made a diskette with the necessary files] loaded from...

IDE DVD/CD drive because it still works fine. Again, here's the recommended (but not necessary) method of installing Windows when you have a SATA and PATA/IDE drive: 1. Install all necessary components only, including the SATA drive 2. Install Windows...

You don't need a floppy. Just set your SATA controller to native IDE mode, or emulated IDE mode, can be called either one depending on your BIOS, insert the Windows disk in the CD/DVD drive, and install Windows on the SATA drive first. You can connect your...

how to do this should be easy to find by doing a ). The reason you want to do this is to try to avoid the possible problems with SATA a prev poster referred to. Using a Windows SP2 install CD is not a guarantee you won't have Windows SATA driver problems, but...

for 140. The problems with Vista are why I bought my laptop with XP Pro instead of Vista Home Premium. Have you never installed windows on a sata Hdd?? You need to give Drivers to the Setup(through F6) so he can detect sata hard drives. Problem is... My laptop...

mouse (USB). I used the vista xp64 installer to repartition and format the drive and installed it, no problems. I have updated all the drivers I can think of, including all the individual motherboard bits from the Asus website, and installed the latest...