installing xp on a SATA hdd

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Donald

how do you install xp ( non sp1 ) on a SATA HDD, i boot
to windows xp, and is comes up saying it cannot detect a
disk, but i have checked the disk is in there and
working, i have already installed a partition on it using
partition magic 8.1
any help would be appreciated
 
You'll have to open your BIOS and make drive setup corrections.
Consult your motherboard's User's Guide for instructions.

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| how do you install xp ( non sp1 ) on a SATA HDD, i boot
| to windows xp, and is comes up saying it cannot detect a
| disk, but i have checked the disk is in there and
| working, i have already installed a partition on it using
| partition magic 8.1
| any help would be appreciated
 
You need to place the SATA drivers on a floppy
There comes a point in the XP installation where it asks you if its a RAID setup
at which point you push F6 and then point it to the SATA drivers on the floppy.
peter
 
I haven't seen any workarounds for this. Install a floppy temporarily. Some
motherboards don't need the drivers to install, but apparently yours isn't
one.

Rpb said:
What if you don't have a floppy drive. I am building a new PC and decided
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against having a floppy. Installing WinXP Home fails saying it cannot find
the hard drive, yet the bios sees it, and I partitioned/formatted it with
the MaxBlast Software.
I pressed F6?? when XP install asked if I wanted to load SCSI (or other
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drivers??) and removed the XP disk and tried to browse the (ASUS) drivers CD
but it didn't see anything on the CD. Any suggestions?
 
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