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SATA drive not detecting
Name: vvasabi8 Date: May 13, 2006 at 09:18:47 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: athlon 64 3000+/ 1gb ram
Comment:
hi i wanted to see if someone here could help me with a problem i encountered.
recently purchased a maxtor 200gb sata drive that im trying to install but windows is not detecting the drive. BIOS recgonizes the drive but not windows. currently have xp installed on a regular ATA drive that i want to clone to the SATA. SATA drive is forrmatted with partition magic but the main issue is that windows does notsee the drive not in disk managements also.
Name: TekWiz Date: May 13, 2006 at 14:29:10 Pacific
Reply:
Did you make sure you have the Abit windows drivers installed for the SATA feature?
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Response Number 2
Name: Musky Date: May 13, 2006 at 16:10:25 Pacific
Reply:
You need to have the drivers for the SATA controller on a floppy when you are installing Windows and as soon as the installation starts, you need to press F6. Then Windows will stop where it needs to and ask you to insert the floppy with the drivers on it.
Unfortunately, XP doesn't load any "generic" SATA drivers during installation.
You need to get them from your Motherboard CD or from the manufacturer's website.
Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!
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Response Number 3
Name: vvasabi8 Date: May 13, 2006 at 23:35:05 Pacific
Reply:
i installed the files from the flobby but it diddn't work, when the sata drives connected xp gets real slow in booting, but if i change the mode to raid it sppend up but drive is still not there
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Response Number 4
Name: TekWiz Date: May 14, 2006 at 11:17:20 Pacific
Reply:
It really should work. Maybe you can ask in a newsgroup that supports Abit. Look here--someone says there is no problem with this board:
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