Installing xp pro - SATA HD not detected

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from setup I press enter and I get a message saying there are no hds found.
Yet I have a Seagate 200gig that is detected by the BIOS and has been
diskwizard formated.

Any tips
 
Jon Taffe said:
from setup I press enter and I get a message saying there are no hds
found.
Yet I have a Seagate 200gig that is detected by the BIOS and has been
diskwizard formated.

Any tips
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Check you BIOS and make sure the SATA drives precede any IDE drives in the
boot sequence. In fact, just disable any IDE drives altogether. I remember
having to mess around to get Windows XP to detect my SATA drives, but I
can't remember exactly what I did.

Carl
 
Thanks Vagabond

I'll try that - though I'm booting from the xp cd rom witch is on IDE 1 so
I'll keep that open.
I'll let u know how it goes. ta
 
It may be that Windows can't identify your mass storage controller.
Download drivers for your SATA controller, use F6 during setup to add
additional drivers.
You will have to place drivers on floppy disc.
 
Re the mobo manual, as to whether for instance sata/raid driver has to be
installed from floppy via F6 option during the installation of win.
 
Has anyone solved this problem. I am trying to go back to XP from Vista and I
seem to always have this problem when i install a new windows software but
this time it is being persistent that it cant find any drives and it also
does not like the mobo raid driver. I am trying to install XP Pro x64 on
Intel 975X mobo
Intel Q6600 Quad Processor
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
Twin Seagate Barracudas 160 GB
Creative Labs Sound Card
Sony Floppy Drive
 
try partition magic

bdchp said:
Has anyone solved this problem. I am trying to go back to XP from Vista
and I
seem to always have this problem when i install a new windows software but
this time it is being persistent that it cant find any drives and it also
does not like the mobo raid driver. I am trying to install XP Pro x64 on
Intel 975X mobo
Intel Q6600 Quad Processor
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
Twin Seagate Barracudas 160 GB
Creative Labs Sound Card
Sony Floppy Drive
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During the install process of XP, at the bottom of the screen, a message to
press F6 to install 3rd party drivers appears.

You need to create a SATA drivers disk from the mobo drivers disk which then
allows the HDD to be detected and the OS can then be installed.
 
This is good but how do you do it with out a flopy drive? Is there some way
to do this with a stick or another CD??
 
Rich said:
This is good but how do you do it with out a flopy drive? Is there some way
to do this with a stick or another CD??
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You need to go into the BIOS, and change the mode of the disk
controller used with that hard drive.

Vista computers may ship, set to "AHCI", since Vista has a built-in
AHCI driver. WinXP SP1 or later, has vanilla drivers, for non-AHCI
mode, which work without installing any drivers. If you enter the
BIOS and select a disk controller mode that WinXP has a driver for,
then you don't need to "F6 install" a driver.

If you have AHCI or RAID as your objective for the disk(s), then
you'll need a floppy to install (or you can slipstream the driver using a
program like NLite from nliteos.com). The driver must be a txtsetup.oem+INF
type driver, for NLite to be able to integrate it and prepare a new
WinXP installer CD, using the old CD for most of the files. Then you
can burn a new bootable CD with Nero or the like.

Paul
 
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