Serial ATA drive

[Gregg]

I am trying to load windows XP (SP_1)professional onto a
160 Gig Serial ATA HD. I cannot seem to get it to see the
drive. I have searched the web and loaded the drivers the
seagate recommends. I have an ASUS P4PE board with a
primary and secondary serial ATA setup on the board.
Nothing seems to work. So far seagate, asus and microsoft
support has been extremely ineffective. Thank you for your
time.
Gregg

 

[Andrew E]

You need to format the drive first,also set the jumper
properly if used with another drive.To format,install xp
cd,boot from cd,recovery,password is the enter key,in
recovery type:FORMAT /? for info,for the drive it is,
FORMAT E: /FS:ntfs E: the hd
If partitioning is on the menu,typeiskPart Then, list
volume You can also type:HELP

 

[Mark S.]

I am trying to load windows XP (SP_1)professional onto a
160 Gig Serial ATA HD. I cannot seem to get it to see the
drive. I have searched the web and loaded the drivers the
seagate recommends. I have an ASUS P4PE board with a
primary and secondary serial ATA setup on the board.
Nothing seems to work. So far seagate, asus and microsoft
support has been extremely ineffective. Thank you for your
time.
Gregg

Gregg -

This board does not have "primary" and "secondary" SATA connection. Each
connection takes a single drive. But you must load the drivers for the
Promise controller during the VERY early part of windows setup, when it asks
you to press F6 to load scsi or other drivers. Have you done this? It
involves putting the drives, which came on the ASUS install CD, onto a
floppy disk.Without this step, the drive will NOT be seen by windows setup.

I suggest you wander over to www.asusboards.com, and browe the forums there.
The users are extremely helpful in just these kinds if situations.

MarkS

 

[David Hollway]

I am trying to load windows XP (SP_1)professional onto a
160 Gig Serial ATA HD. I cannot seem to get it to see the
drive. I have searched the web and loaded the drivers the
seagate recommends. I have an ASUS P4PE board with a
primary and secondary serial ATA setup on the board.
Nothing seems to work. So far seagate, asus and microsoft
support has been extremely ineffective. Thank you for your
time.

Gregg,

First, ensure that the S-ATA controller is enabled in the motherboard BIOS,
and that you have correctly connected the disk data and power cables.

Because the S-ATA controller on the board is not natively supported by XP,
you need to use the correct driver for the SerialATA chip, which I believe
on the P4PE is made by Promise.
The driver should be on a CD or floppy disk with your board, or can be
downloaded from:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/down...5&l3_id=15&m_id=1&f_name=pdc20376.zip~zaqwedc

Extract the contents of the above .ZIP file to a blank floppy, then boot
your system from the Windows XP CD. Shortly after the blue-screen phase of
setup begins, you will BRIEFLY see a message at the bottom of the screen
prompting you to "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID
driver", or words to that effect. At this point, press F6. Setup will appear
to ignore you and continue loading drivers, but after a while you will be
prompted with a screen to load support for mass storage devices.
At this screen, press S to "Specify Additional Device", and when prompted
insert the driver floppy you made earlier into the A: drive, and press
ENTER.
You should then see a screen listing the available storage driver(s) on the
floppy. Pick the appropriate one and press ENTER, then ENTER again at the
next screen confirming your choice.
From this point, Windows XP setup will continue as normal.

I hope this helps.

-David Hollway
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[David Hollway]

You need to format the drive first,also set the jumper
properly if used with another drive.To format,install xp
cd,boot from cd,recovery,password is the enter key,in
recovery type:FORMAT /? for info,for the drive it is,
FORMAT E: /FS:ntfs E: the hd
If partitioning is on the menu,typeiskPart Then, list
volume You can also type:HELP

No jumpers on Serial ATA drives, they have the cable to themselves so no
need for master/slave settings.