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I recently purchased two Western Digital 2500JD hard drives. They are SATA
drives and 250 gigs each. My motherboard has an onboard Sis180 Raid
Controller which includes a setup utility which is not part of the BIOS but
seems to be hardware driven.
I have connected all cables properly. In the initial setup the RAID utility
recognizes the RAID 1 drive that I have set up. In my current installation
of Windows XP Professional, the drives are recognized, assigned drive letters
and formatted as one drive in two partitions.
My whole goal in purchasing the SATA drives was to get rid of my IDE drive.
Clearly then, I'd like to do a clean install of XP on the new drives. Of
course as everyone else has discovered, XP doesn't seem to have the necessary
drivers. I am trying to install SP2 Home Edition. I used the slipstream
utility to integrate the drivers. I put the drivers on a floppy and pressed
F6. Windows Setup claims to have loaded the drivers. However, when I get to
the point where I am supposed to choose where to install the new copy of XP,
my SATA drive does not appear.
Any input on this one?
drives and 250 gigs each. My motherboard has an onboard Sis180 Raid
Controller which includes a setup utility which is not part of the BIOS but
seems to be hardware driven.
I have connected all cables properly. In the initial setup the RAID utility
recognizes the RAID 1 drive that I have set up. In my current installation
of Windows XP Professional, the drives are recognized, assigned drive letters
and formatted as one drive in two partitions.
My whole goal in purchasing the SATA drives was to get rid of my IDE drive.
Clearly then, I'd like to do a clean install of XP on the new drives. Of
course as everyone else has discovered, XP doesn't seem to have the necessary
drivers. I am trying to install SP2 Home Edition. I used the slipstream
utility to integrate the drivers. I put the drivers on a floppy and pressed
F6. Windows Setup claims to have loaded the drivers. However, when I get to
the point where I am supposed to choose where to install the new copy of XP,
my SATA drive does not appear.
Any input on this one?