SATA drive not recognised

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Hello,

I recently bought a 320GB Western Digital SATA2 Hard Drive and I want to put
Windows XP on it. After a bit of problems trying to get it to be recognised
by the BIOS (I just had to put a jumper on the HDD to convert it to SATA1),
I tried to install Windows XP professional (x86). I got into the install,
pressed F6 then 'S' when prompted and located the right SATA drivers, but
when I got to the part just after you select if you want to:
*Install Windows
*Repair Windows
*F3 to exit setup
(I pressed enter to install windows) It said that there was no HDD connected
to the computer or it isn't powered. I have checked all the connectors
(power on HDD, SATA on HDD and Motherboard), but it still says that it can't
find the HDD.

So I plugged in my old HDD (40GB PATA - that's why I want this new HDD) and
booted Windows. I wanted to see if an all ready installed version of Windows
could see the SATA HDD as a secondary HDD or something so that I could copy
all the Windows files across and the boot from it.
So I installed the same SATA drives, but I found that it said "This device
cannot start. (Code 10)" (Device Manager > SCSI and RAID controllers > WinXP
Promise SATA378 (tm) IDE controller). I uninstalled the drivers and
installed them again, rebooted, but that didn't work.

I searched the internet and that's how I found that I needed to install
SATA drivers, which has solved most peoples problems, but not mine. I also
found out that WesternDigital HDD's and ASUS mobo's normally don't like each
other, but the HDD is seen by the the bios (during boot-up) and I was able to
install Linux with no problem and boot it up, so I don't think that's the
reason. I was hoping you may have an idea on how I can get Windows to see the
SATA drive either in the install or on an already installed copy as the SATA
drive as a secondary HDD.

My computer specs are:
AMD Athlon64 3500+ Venice
ASUS A8V Delxue Motherboard
Western Digital 320GB SATA2 HDD (WD3200JS - with jumper to convert to SATA1
WD3200JD)
1GB OCX DDR RAM
OLD HDD's: WD400JB (40GB PATA)
QUANTUN FIREBALL lct15 10 (10GB PATA)

Any help would be appreciated,

P.S. I'm NOT trying to do any sort of RAID configuration, I just want the
SATA HDD as a single drive with no "backing-up" or "spreading the information
over multiple drives" or anything like that.
 
Anklyne said:
Hello,

I recently bought a 320GB Western Digital SATA2 Hard Drive and I want to put
Windows XP on it. After a bit of problems trying to get it to be recognised
by the BIOS (I just had to put a jumper on the HDD to convert it to SATA1),
I tried to install Windows XP professional (x86). I got into the install,
pressed F6 then 'S' when prompted and located the right SATA drivers, but
when I got to the part just after you select if you want to:
*Install Windows
*Repair Windows
*F3 to exit setup
(I pressed enter to install windows) It said that there was no HDD connected
to the computer or it isn't powered. I have checked all the connectors
(power on HDD, SATA on HDD and Motherboard), but it still says that it can't
find the HDD.

So I plugged in my old HDD (40GB PATA - that's why I want this new HDD) and
booted Windows. I wanted to see if an all ready installed version of Windows
could see the SATA HDD as a secondary HDD or something so that I could copy
all the Windows files across and the boot from it.
So I installed the same SATA drives, but I found that it said "This device
cannot start. (Code 10)" (Device Manager > SCSI and RAID controllers > WinXP
Promise SATA378 (tm) IDE controller). I uninstalled the drivers and
installed them again, rebooted, but that didn't work.

I searched the internet and that's how I found that I needed to install
SATA drivers, which has solved most peoples problems, but not mine. I also
found out that WesternDigital HDD's and ASUS mobo's normally don't like each
other, but the HDD is seen by the the bios (during boot-up) and I was able to
install Linux with no problem and boot it up, so I don't think that's the
reason. I was hoping you may have an idea on how I can get Windows to see the
SATA drive either in the install or on an already installed copy as the SATA
drive as a secondary HDD.

My computer specs are:
AMD Athlon64 3500+ Venice
ASUS A8V Delxue Motherboard
Western Digital 320GB SATA2 HDD (WD3200JS - with jumper to convert to SATA1
WD3200JD)
1GB OCX DDR RAM
OLD HDD's: WD400JB (40GB PATA)
QUANTUN FIREBALL lct15 10 (10GB PATA)

Any help would be appreciated,

P.S. I'm NOT trying to do any sort of RAID configuration, I just want the
SATA HDD as a single drive with no "backing-up" or "spreading the information
over multiple drives" or anything like that.
Click to expand...

Open the ASUS motherboard manual and visit 2 sections that are
of importance to this situation. First, in the installation guide
for S-ATA drives, make sure that the HD is attached to the proper
S-ATA port and look over the text. And second, in bios setup, make
sure that the S-ATA port is set up for the right ports as well as
type, probably S-ATA. There should be no reason why the ASUS mobo
could not otherwise natively detect the WD S-ATA HD.
 
Ghostrider said:
Open the ASUS motherboard manual and visit 2 sections that are
of importance to this situation. First, in the installation guide
for S-ATA drives, make sure that the HD is attached to the proper
S-ATA port and look over the text. And second, in bios setup, make
sure that the S-ATA port is set up for the right ports as well as
type, probably S-ATA. There should be no reason why the ASUS mobo
could not otherwise natively detect the WD S-ATA HD.
Click to expand...

I have the HDD connected to the SATA 1 connector, and in the bios it shows
up as something like "VIA SATA 1" (something like that, I know for sure
that's not actually it). Because my first post was rather long I'll forgive
you, but I did say that the bios DOES recognise that the HDD is there during
boot-up, it's just not recognised by Windows when I try to install it, or if
I boot an already installed version (doesn't show up as a secondary drive).

I'm not sure if it is Windows' fault or if it is something to do with my
motherboard, because Linux installed fine (points to it being windows), but
my brother was able to install Windows fine on his WD SATA HDD but he has a
Gigabyte (points to it being my motherboard).
 
Anklyne said:
I have the HDD connected to the SATA 1 connector, and in the bios it shows
up as something like "VIA SATA 1" (something like that, I know for sure
that's not actually it). Because my first post was rather long I'll forgive
you, but I did say that the bios DOES recognise that the HDD is there during
boot-up, it's just not recognised by Windows when I try to install it, or if
I boot an already installed version (doesn't show up as a secondary drive).

I'm not sure if it is Windows' fault or if it is something to do with my
motherboard, because Linux installed fine (points to it being windows), but
my brother was able to install Windows fine on his WD SATA HDD but he has a
Gigabyte (points to it being my motherboard).
Click to expand...

Try doing the install without loading the drivers. If that doesn't work, and your BIOS
has an option to initialize the drive in legacy mode, try that. If that doesn't work, you
might want to look around for a BIOS update.
 
Anklyne said:
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I have the HDD connected to the SATA 1 connector, and in the bios it shows
up as something like "VIA SATA 1" (something like that, I know for sure
that's not actually it). Because my first post was rather long I'll forgive
you, but I did say that the bios DOES recognise that the HDD is there during
boot-up, it's just not recognised by Windows when I try to install it, or if
I boot an already installed version (doesn't show up as a secondary drive).

I'm not sure if it is Windows' fault or if it is something to do with my
motherboard, because Linux installed fine (points to it being windows), but
my brother was able to install Windows fine on his WD SATA HDD but he has a
Gigabyte (points to it being my motherboard).
Click to expand...


It's a little tricky getting Windows XP to see the S-ATA
drive, even if it is detected by the bios. The issue is
that while the motherboard can natively detect the S-ATA
HD, Windows XP does not. The right drivers need to be loaded
with the F6 key at the start of Windows XP set up and these
drivers might not be the ones that are on the ASUS cdrom but
in its website. (ASUS probably still thinks that anyone using
S-ATA is thinking of RAID; I learned this the hard way whilst
setting up my P5WD2E-Premium.)
 
I have the HDD connected to the SATA 1 connector, and in the bios it shows
up as something like "VIA SATA 1" (something like that, I know for sure
that's not actually it). Because my first post was rather long I'll forgive
you, but I did say that the bios DOES recognise that the HDD is there during
boot-up, it's just not recognised by Windows when I try to install it, or if
I boot an already installed version (doesn't show up as a secondary drive).
Click to expand...

Are you installing the correct driver? In your initial message you
referred to the Promise SATA378. In this one, the Via SATA.
 
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