SATA drives

[Guest]

I have just upgraded my motherboard to an ASrock 939NF4G-SATA2, with an AMD
Athlon 3500+ processor, 1gb RAM and a 250gb SATA drive. Running XP home
edition. I had lots of data on 3 IDE hard drives, so I installed those drives
when building the machine and boot to one of them. However, I just cannot get
XP to recognise the SATA drive. I have enabled the SATA bit in BIOS. Can
anyone help?

 

[Og]

I have just upgraded my motherboard to an ASrock 939NF4G-SATA2, with an AMD
Athlon 3500+ processor, 1gb RAM and a 250gb SATA drive. Running XP home
edition. I had lots of data on 3 IDE hard drives, so I installed those
drives
when building the machine and boot to one of them. However, I just cannot
get
XP to recognise the SATA drive. I have enabled the SATA bit in BIOS. Can
anyone help?

1. Did you install the SATA drivers for the motherboard chipset?
2. In BIOS did you enable SATA drive, or SATA RAID?
Steve

 

[Jerry]

RAID required two identical drives so that option should not have been
available.

 

[DL]

Not quite true, some mobo chipsets require you to set up the raid for a
single sata disk as JBOD
Also raid can consist of more than two disks

 

[Lucifer]

*I have just upgraded my motherboard to an ASrock 939NF4G-SATA2, with
an AMD
Athlon 3500+ processor, 1gb RAM and a 250gb SATA drive. Running XP
home
edition. I had lots of data on 3 IDE hard drives, so I installed
those drives
when building the machine and boot to one of them. However, I just
cannot get
XP to recognise the SATA drive. I have enabled the SATA bit in BIOS.
Can
anyone help? *

First of all jock do you have a floppy drive?
And if not do you have any IDE drives?
this is a pain and I had to get around it as i have no floppy and no
IDE drive only SATA.
I can help but its too long to post here.
At moment it is 1.51am UK time
As soon as you read my post do one acknowledging it and i will sign
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Page2 of www.e-lucifer.tk shows you I know my stuff lol.

Ah.Read more closely, try this.
Boot to a windows install on the IDE drive.
get the up to date SATA driver for your chipset. Mines SLI x16 so
nvatabus.sys.
If you can put it on floppy do so.
hit F6 at beginning of XP CD boot to install the 3rd party RAID
driver.
This is the driver not the Mediashield raid array application.
Point at your floppy and let it install the driver.
If this dont work email me and I will send you custom winnt.sif to burn
onto an XP install CD.

Lucifer
Lucifer

 

[Og]

RAID required two identical drives so that option should not have been
available.

Here is the sequence:
Step #1. Enable RAID in System BIOS
Step #2. Having performed Step #1, reboot and enter the RAID BIOS to set up
the RAID array.
If one performs Step #1 and neglects Step #2, the RAID controller will,
indeed, report its presence to Windows.
(One can, indeed, perform Step #1 even if there are zero drives attached to
the system.)
If the OP enabled RAID boot in System BIOS rather than enabling single SATA
boot drive, Windows will be looking to the RAID controller for a
(non-existent) drive.
Steve

 

[ewa568]

this is for lucifer mate i have a AMD 64BIT 35OO ASUSA8N-SLI PREMUIM
BOARD 120GB SATA HARDDRIVE,mate what i'm wanting to know is when i do a
fresh install do i have to do anything special to formatt and install
xp pro with sp1,mate i have been getting conflicting answers and when
the install is finished and i go to install chipset drivers, do i
install ide drivers as well any help will do and thanks in advance to

 

[Guest]

OK, I've solved part of the problem, I think. I set the BIOS to only
recognise the CD drive, enabled the SATA (non raid) and rebooted using the xp
install disc. Then had to format the SATA, and reinstall (and upgrade!)
EVERYTHING. Apart from the time element, this went OK. I now am going to look
around for the thread that explains why xp only recognises 131gb instead of
the 250 that is on the SATA disc. After xp was up and running, I re-instated
the IDE controllers, so have access now to all my docs etc. TYVM all for
assistance.

 

[DL]

131gb?
Thats because your version of winxp, the installation cd, is pre sp1 and as
such large disks are not recognised.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp
You can either update your win, then create a new partition in the free
space, or you would have to create a slipstreamed winxp installation cd
containing the latest sp, in order to have all the disk space available on a
new installation.

 

[Guest]

TYVM. I found a programme called "discwizard" (from Maxtor, I think) that
runs under XP and have now added and formatted a second partition to the SATA
drive.