Win XP & Serial ATA

[Paul Cochrane]

I am attempting to install Windows XP on a computer fitted
with a single Serial ATA drive. I booted from the CD and
pressed Enter for a new install of Windows. The next
screen says that there are no drives available for
install. If I boot from a Win 98 boot disk and run FDISK
it displays the drive so I know it's there. Do I need to
find 3rd party drivers for SATA during the start up
process of Win XP?
Any ideas would be very helpful.

Thanks

 

[John Blaustein]

Paul,

I recently assembled a PC from scratch for the first time and ran into the
same issue. My motherboard -- ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe -- came with a CD and
there is an SATA driver on the CD. You need to copy an SATA driver to a
floppy. Then, when you run the XP install CD, you will get to a screen that
asks if you have any third party drivers to install. You press F6 to
indicate that you do have drivers to install. You can insert the floppy
just before you press F6. It will take the XP installer a while before it
accesses the floppy, so just leave it in there. Once the XP install is
finished, be sure to remove the floppy before XP reboots your machine --
depending on the BIOS settings, it might try to boot from the floppy, and
you don't want that.

Hope this helps.

John

 

[Paul Cochrane]

Thanks. My motherboard is also an ASUS. I'll check the CD.