Serial ATA drives and Windows XP

[Kevin]

I just purchased a new system with the Intel D875PBZ
motherboard and 2 Western Digital "S" ATA (Serial ATA)
hard drives.
I have not been able to find any step by step
instructions or any info at all on Windows/Microsofts
website regarding the installation of SATA hard drives.
I am very confused about the power supply of SATA drives.
Using the Secure Connect cable, it gets connected to BOTH
the "power input" and the "interface input" on the back
of the SATA drive and then plugs into the SATA input on
the motherboard. I am also using the regular 4 pin legacy
power connector also. On Western Digitals website, they
advise that you should NOT use BOTH power connectors, but
if I only use the SATA power connector and NOT the 4 pin
legacy connector, Windows XP Pro does NOT recognize the
drives during installation. I am NOT using any SATA
controller card, I am plugging them directly into the
motherboard so it should work ok.

Does anyone know how to install these SATA drives and
install WIndows on them? I am getting nothing but errors
when trying to install windows using both power
connectors.

Please advise and THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!
Kevin

 

[RonK]

Use only one of the power connectors.

Make sure you hit F8 when XP starts the installation and have the sata
drivers extracted to a floppy drive.
XP will see the drives then you can partition and format during the
installation.

 

[RonK]

Sorry - Meant to say F6 not F8

Use only one of the power connectors.

Make sure you hit F8 when XP starts the installation and have the sata
drivers extracted to a floppy drive.
XP will see the drives then you can partition and format during the
installation.

 

[peter]

Follow the Western Digital instructions
My Sata uses a SATA power cable to the PSU and a Input cable to the MOBO.
The BIOS recognices them and I set the boot order to CD as 1st SCSI(SATA)or HD-0
as 2nd
Place the SATA drivers on a floppy disk
During the XP install it will ask you if your running unusual Harware(RAID
etc)at wich point it also instructs you to push F6 if you are.It will then look
to thefloppy for the SATA drivers and the rest of the installation should go
smoothly.
peter

 

[Jerry]

Microsft makes software to be used on your computer. It is NOT Microsoft's
job to tell you how to install the hardware in your computer. That is your
job.

Did you not get a manual with the motherboard? Hard drives?

Check the web site of the manufacturer of these items.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I just purchased a new system with the Intel D875PBZ
motherboard and 2 Western Digital "S" ATA (Serial ATA)
hard drives.
I have not been able to find any step by step
instructions

You would probably be better to ask in the
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware group than here.

 

[Pivert]

There is : you have to load SATA drivers when first installing Windows as
suggested by Ronk.

 

[peter]

My Asus MOBO has SATA on it and I needed to load the drivers from a floppy
during the XP install!!!!
peter

 

[Woody]

Peter,

The OP doesn't have an ASUS board, its an Intel with the 875 chipset. He
doesn't need to load drivers during XP install. I have the same board, just
installed both Home and Pro without addition drivers. See link:
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/sb/CS-009292.htm

Woody

 

[Woody]

Since your MB supports SATA, you don't need additional drivers. Make sure
SATA in enabled in the BIOS (set to auto). Connect your SATA cables to the
drives and the MB. Connect only 1 power connector to each drive. (there are
two types, your choice which to use). BIOS should detect the drives at
boot. There should be no special requirement for Windows to recognize the
drives so long as they are detected by the BIOS.

Woody

 

[Woody]

I disagree. Unless it's a RAID setup, WinXP will detect the drives. The
OP's MB supports SATA and is probably not using a controller card. So long
as BIOS detects the drives, so will XP.

 

[Guest]

I have the same set up as kevin Intel D875PBZ board only I have Maxstor SATA drives. No problem Loading Xp at all. No additional Drivers needed. I only used the 4 pin legacy power connectors.