I have recently built a new P.c and decided to go for the serial ATA hard drive rather than the norm of a IDE drive. I have never used one of these before and are having problems getting my computer to recognise the drive on bootup. My board is SATA compatible obviously but on boot up the computer searches the IDE drives and finds nothing. With the windows CD in it wont recognise it either. I know how difficult it must be for anyone to know what im talking about without actually looking at the computer, but if anyone has had similar problems or if there is anyone who knows anything about this kind of drive i would be very pleased with any kind of feedback as no-one i speak to seems to know too much about this. Thanks in advance Ian

I think you have to press F8 when you start the windows install to load the sata drivers from floppy...might be f6 but you get prompted.

Hi, With your mobo you should get a floppy disk with your sata/raid drivers. When you first boot up, go into the bios and make sure you boot from your cd-rom .. then re-boot.. your pc should boot from your cd-rom and go the the procedure for loading in windows.... But.!!! Before this you have to look for " Press f6 to load third party drivers " or something to that effect.. Make sure you spot it because if your not quick enough you will miss it... You will then go through the procedure of loading in your "sata/raid" drivers.. Once you have done this it will then go through the procedure to load in windows.. You need to do this because your mobo needs drivers to see your sata HDD in order to load in windows... With out this windows will load to a certain point and want to re-boot and start-up from your HDD .. so what you will get is a blank screen becuase it cant see your HDD.. Hope this was some help.. Abit NF7s V2.0 Mobo Radeon 9800xt 256mb, xp2500 mobile @208x12.5, Antec True 550w psu, 2X512 xms corsair Pc3500 in dual channel, Twin 10k Raptors (raided) waterchill cooled..

I've got the same problem, but they did'nt send me a floppy disc with the mobo, but a classic cd. my pc doesn't recognize it as driver-cd. where's the problem? Where can I download the correct driver? thx for help