Recognizing an SATA Drive for Install 3

[BoulderBum]

I'm pretty dumb with hardware.

Is there anything I need to do to get the computer to recognize my (unformatted) SATA drive? When the XP setup screen comes up, it says it can't find any hard drive.

Also, is there SATA stuff in the BIOS usually? I didn't see anything.

 

[bcastner]

See member SYAR2003's FAQ: faq779-4641

 

[BoulderBum]

Technology hates me.

Thanks for the reply, but, unfortunately, the drivers I need weren't sent by the manufacturer, and the only thing Seagate had for download on their site was an "easy to use utility" that didn't really work (it will only partition the disk and I still need the drivers for Windows setup).

I'm contacting Seagate and the manufacturer about getting the drivers themselves, but I don't suppose anyone here has what I need?

 

[bcastner]

The drivers should come from the motherboard folks, not the drive folks -- they do not have any way of knowing what chipset the controller uses.

I think you will find some help here: thread779-737441

 

[SYAR2003]

The serial ata drivers has nothing to do with the drive manufacturer, drive type ,but the controller on the motherboard.
If you have a nforce2 motherboard the drivers for sata
relates to the controller on the motherboard witch for
nforce2 usually is silicone image .

Post the details of your motherboard (type ,vendor)
and we will help you through it.

syar

 

[paparazi]

BoulderBum
I have noticed with the alot of motherboards coming out now that they are not supplying either the normal raid or the NEW SATA drivers on floppy BUT!!!! that doesn't mean that they don't supply the drivers at all, just that they give you them in a differant form.
The Raid and SATA drivers will be on the supplied motherboard driver/utility disk.
Only thing is you have to do the work yourself and copy the appropriate driver onto a floppy.
Once you have done this, on initial boot with XP disk and SATA driver floppy ready in the drive, it asks if you would like to install a third party driver (well maybe not those exact words) be warned setup only gives you a few seconds to press the F? key to load the SATA driver.
Martin

Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[BoulderBum]

I love you guys!

Once told I needed drivers for the motherboard (instead of the drive itself, which made sense after the mention) I was able to dig and find what I needed. I'm loading the second OS as we speak.

I noticed there aren't SATA drivers for Win Server 2k3. I hope to heaven that means Win 2k3 will automatically detect it (though I suppose the additional drivers wouldn't be TOO hard to track down).

SYAR, it's an MSI K8T Master-2 Far.

Thanks again, all.

I am going to set up a network after I get the OSes up and running so I'm sure I'll need to pay another visit shortly.