Installing on S-ATA disk

[Tor Tveitane]

Hi,

I've just got a new AOpen AK77-600 motherboard with a 160Gb S-ATA disk
connected. During POST the disk is recognoized present at S-ATA port 0 as
master. However when I boot and try to install the os from a win2k CD it
refuses to start installing because no harddrive is found.

Do I need smth extra to have the w2k installer recognize S-ATA disks..?

Thanks for any hint / info

Tor

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Hi,

I've just got a new AOpen AK77-600 motherboard with a 160Gb S-ATA disk
connected. During POST the disk is recognoized present at S-ATA port
0 as master. However when I boot and try to install the os from a
win2k CD it refuses to start installing because no harddrive is found.

Do I need smth extra to have the w2k installer recognize S-ATA
disks..?

Thanks for any hint / info

Tor

Do you have any drivers from the motherboard manufacturer?

Early during the W2k install you can press F6 to manually add any
manufacturers drivers

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll want to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom. The set of four
install disks can be created from your Windows 2000 CD-Rom; change to the
\bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or
makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the prompts.

Then *F6* very early and very important (at setup is inspecting your system)
in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select S to specify
additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer
supplied Windows 2000 driver for your serial ATA controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Hi,
|
| I've just got a new AOpen AK77-600 motherboard with a 160Gb S-ATA disk
| connected. During POST the disk is recognoized present at S-ATA port 0 as
| master. However when I boot and try to install the os from a win2k CD it
| refuses to start installing because no harddrive is found.
|
| Do I need smth extra to have the w2k installer recognize S-ATA disks..?
|
| Thanks for any hint / info
|
| Tor
|
|