XP setup does not recognize SATA HD

[Ollie]

Hello Yall,
I am doing a new Windows XP Pro on a pentium 4 system
with two seagate 120G SATA hardrives. No matter what I
did XP would not recognize the hard drives were there.
Please advice.

Thanks a lot

Ollie

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

When you say it doesnt see the harddrives, that is during the clean install
portion correct? Or does it see the drives during install and then lose the
ability to write to them? If it is during install then that means that you
dont have a controller driver loaded for them on boot (hit F6 when the
machine comes up) and you will need to specify a controller driver from
floppy.

 

[Alvin Ashcraft]

Joseph,

Is there a way around that if you have no floppy drive in
the system. Can I burn a custom image of my WinXP CD with
the SATA drivers on it?

Thanks!

Alvin Ashcraft; MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, MCSD, MCT
Bit Tappers

-----Original Message-----
When you say it doesnt see the harddrives, that is during the clean install
portion correct? Or does it see the drives during install and then lose the
ability to write to them? If it is during install then that means that you
dont have a controller driver loaded for them on boot (hit F6 when the
machine comes up) and you will need to specify a controller driver from
floppy.

--
Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server Group

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[Guest]

I have a similar problem. I have a P4 with no internal
floppy drive but I do have a USB floppy. The only problem
is that when I press F6 and then specify the driver on the
floppy disk and later pick the partition to install to,
after formatting the partition it again asks to insert the
install disk, only this time it no longer recognizes that
there is a floppy connected at all.

Is there anyway to install drivers with a USB Floppy or to
install the drivers via CD-ROM?

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Nope, you must specify it via floppy. You could make an image that already
has all the drivers built into it with the drivers there as you mentioned
using sysprep though, then Ghost and burn it. That would give you a
"restore" disk.