I have a gigabyte GA-7VT600 Mainboard with a 80GB SATA
Drive. It boots fine but I want to do a clean install on
it. When I boot of the Windows XP CD it says it can't
find the hard drive. SO I downloaded the SATA drivers
onto floppy disk and used them but it still says it can't
find the drive. I tired another SATA drive in it still no
luck, (however it works fine with a IDE Drive). How do I
get around this issue?

Read the User's Guide that came with your motherboard
and correct your BIOS settings.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

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"lrobo" wrote:

| I have a gigabyte GA-7VT600 Mainboard with a 80GB SATA
| Drive. It boots fine but I want to do a clean install on
| it. When I boot of the Windows XP CD it says it can't
| find the hard drive. SO I downloaded the SATA drivers
| onto floppy disk and used them but it still says it can't
| find the drive. I tired another SATA drive in it still no
| luck, (however it works fine with a IDE Drive). How do I
| get around this issue?

Yeh, I've done that. It detects fine in the BIOS and like
I said it already boots into XP (that is installed on it
okay) but the Windows XP Home Setup won't detect it.

>-----Original Message-----
>Read the User's Guide that came with your motherboard
>and correct your BIOS settings.
>
>--
>Carey Frisch
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows XP - Shell/User
>
>Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
>http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...rotect/default.
aspx
>
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>
>"lrobo" wrote:
>
>| I have a gigabyte GA-7VT600 Mainboard with a 80GB SATA
>| Drive. It boots fine but I want to do a clean install
on
>| it. When I boot of the Windows XP CD it says it can't
>| find the hard drive. SO I downloaded the SATA drivers
>| onto floppy disk and used them but it still says it
can't
>| find the drive. I tired another SATA drive in it still
no
>| luck, (however it works fine with a IDE Drive). How do
I
>| get around this issue?
>.
>

lrobo wrote:
> I have a gigabyte GA-7VT600 Mainboard with a 80GB SATA
> Drive. It boots fine but I want to do a clean install on
> it. When I boot of the Windows XP CD it says it can't
> find the hard drive. SO I downloaded the SATA drivers
> onto floppy disk and used them but it still says it can't
> find the drive. I tired another SATA drive in it still no
> luck, (however it works fine with a IDE Drive). How do I
> get around this issue?


Well this is interesting because, according to Gigabyte's website - that
board doesn't support SATA. Is this
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard..._GA-7VT600.htm
(shortened link in case that wraps http://tinyurl.com/4hyvv) your board? So
I have to conclude that you have the drive connected via a PCI SATA
controller card. If that's the case, have you been to the card
manufacturer's website and download the correct driver from there? I suspect
not. Where did you download the driver you have from? The reason it isn't
working is it isn't the correct driver. I have three SATA drives (my board
supports it natively) and it /works/!
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