SATA Setup Issues

[lrobo]

I have a gigabyte GA-7VT600 Mainboard with a 80GB SATA
Drive. It boots fine but I want to do a clean install on
it. When I boot of the Windows XP CD it says it can't
find the hard drive. SO I downloaded the SATA drivers
onto floppy disk and used them but it still says it can't
find the drive. I tired another SATA drive in it still no
luck, (however it works fine with a IDE Drive). How do I
get around this issue?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Read the User's Guide that came with your motherboard
and correct your BIOS settings.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I have a gigabyte GA-7VT600 Mainboard with a 80GB SATA
| Drive. It boots fine but I want to do a clean install on
| it. When I boot of the Windows XP CD it says it can't
| find the hard drive. SO I downloaded the SATA drivers
| onto floppy disk and used them but it still says it can't
| find the drive. I tired another SATA drive in it still no
| luck, (however it works fine with a IDE Drive). How do I
| get around this issue?

 

[Guest]

Yeh, I've done that. It detects fine in the BIOS and like
I said it already boots into XP (that is installed on it
okay) but the Windows XP Home Setup won't detect it.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

I have a gigabyte GA-7VT600 Mainboard with a 80GB SATA
Drive. It boots fine but I want to do a clean install on
it. When I boot of the Windows XP CD it says it can't
find the hard drive. SO I downloaded the SATA drivers
onto floppy disk and used them but it still says it can't
find the drive. I tired another SATA drive in it still no
luck, (however it works fine with a IDE Drive). How do I
get around this issue?

Well this is interesting because, according to Gigabyte's website - that
board doesn't support SATA. Is this
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-7VT600.htm
(shortened link in case that wraps http://tinyurl.com/4hyvv) your board? So
I have to conclude that you have the drive connected via a PCI SATA
controller card. If that's the case, have you been to the card
manufacturer's website and download the correct driver from there? I suspect
not. Where did you download the driver you have from? The reason it isn't
working is it isn't the correct driver. I have three SATA drives (my board
supports it natively) and it /works/!