SATA drive delema

[Guest]

I have a new mother board 925XBC,with a 560 LGA775 Processor 4 gig of ram and
two seagate 7200 SATA hard drives.
Now the problem!
I have tried every
configuration I can come up with and still cant get windows XP pro (brand
new) to find the hard drives in a sata configuration. If I set the legacy it
will find one drive and load xp on it and now I have "C" and "D" drives I
have tried RAID0 and RAID1 configs, set the legacy to all the differnt
settings. Also i have done the F6 and tried different disks just to be sure
the disk werent broken. I have made sure the bios is set for the sata drive
name. and looked at most of the post here and tried the ideas.

Help I have run out of options

 

[Dave Patrick]

Check the documentation for your controller. You may need to use the raid
controller configuration utility to first build the array. Then if your
drive controller is not natively supported you'll want to boot the Windows
XP CD-Rom. 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 XP 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 XP Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

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Regards,

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:
|I have a new mother board 925XBC,with a 560 LGA775 Processor 4 gig of ram
and
| two seagate 7200 SATA hard drives.
| Now the problem!
| I have tried every
| configuration I can come up with and still cant get windows XP pro (brand
| new) to find the hard drives in a sata configuration. If I set the legacy
it
| will find one drive and load xp on it and now I have "C" and "D" drives I
| have tried RAID0 and RAID1 configs, set the legacy to all the differnt
| settings. Also i have done the F6 and tried different disks just to be
sure
| the disk werent broken. I have made sure the bios is set for the sata
drive
| name. and looked at most of the post here and tried the ideas.
|
| Help I have run out of options
|

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, LtFass.

Nice rig! ;<)

Although RAID (both IDE and SATA) is available on my mobo, I've never used
RAID at all, so maybe I just don't understand a key part of your problem.
But maybe I can help a little.

The F6 key is needed only during WinXP Setup, and only if you will be
booting from a HD/controller/chipset for which drivers are not on the WinXP
CD-ROM. (I had to use F6 to install drivers for my boot device, which is an
IBM SCSI HD, connected to an Adaptec host adapter. My mobo has 6 SATA
connectors, in addition to the usual 2 IDE/ATA-133 connectors, which have
two IDE HDs and 2 DVDs connected.) To use SATA (or other exotic drives) as
secondary drives, all you need to do is to install their drivers after
booting into WinXP, much like you would install drivers for a printer or
digital camera.

You apparently have already done the first step, which is to boot from the
WinXP CD-ROM and use the F6 key to install the SATA drivers from a floppy
diskette. Until these boot-device drivers are integrated into WinXP by
Setup, WinXP cannot finish Setup, but stalls after the text-mode phase when
it tries for the first time to boot from the new drive into the GUI phase of
Setup.

The second step is to boot into WinXP and use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc
from the Command Prompt) to recognize the HD, then partition and format it.
You MIGHT need to install the SATA drivers for this step, but I think all
recent mobo/chipset/BIOS combos have the support built in so that Disk
Management will recognize the secondary HD automatically.

RC

 

[Carl G]

Hi Lt
Maybe you have to enable Raid in the bios.
Hope this helps.
CG

 

[Carl G]

Hi Lt
Are you trying to setup raid or just use as regular SATA drives ?

CG

 

[Guest]

Ok The Solution: after 3 hrs on the tech line with Microsoft and Intel and
Seagate on a confrence call it was determined that the SATA drivers shipped
with the mother board were incorrect and after downloading the correct SATA
drivers from intel all of the instructions and setting previous used were
indeed correct. So for all out there having the same or similer problems
obtain the latest drivers
Thanks Again to all who helped you all are great!!!!