Booting from a 200G SATA drive

[Paul in San Diego]

When I put this PC together, I installed an ASUS board and a 200G SATA
drive. I'm looking for info on doing the XP Pro install to boot from a
partition on that drive. Do I press F6 on the setup screen, and install
drivers in that fashion so that setup will see this drive?

 

[Guest]

You will find most of what you require in the user manual.

In BIOS you will need to define the RAID level; given that you have one
disk, this will be basic.

Ensure that you manage to copy the correct drive for the RAID 'type' onto a
floppy disk.

During the initial setup phase, you will be prompted to press F6: yes you're
right.

If you have the correct drivers, then XP will continue the setup phase,
allowing you to partition and format the drive.

 

[Guest]

By the way, not stating the model of the Mobo and Make of the Drive makes a
good reply impossible.

If you have a Western Digital HDD take a look here:

http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2079-001046.pdf

 

[Timothy Daniels]

The O.P. didn't say anything about RAID.

~TimRDan~

 

[Paul in San Diego]

That's kinda one of the questions though ... is it going to be the RAID
controller that I'll be using to see the SATA drive in the CMOS?

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Sorry, it's time to get out the manual. What is the model no.
of the motherboard and what does the owner's manual say?

*TimDan*