During windows install, you will be prompted to install 3rd party drivers by pressing F6. At that point, press f6 and insert the floppy into drive a and load the drivers. I've tried that, and it's still not recognising the drives Tried getting drivers from the Asus website as well as the CD that came with the mobo , however, I decided earlier to try and cheat a little, and attempt to set it up as a one disk Raid array, it seems to have recognised the disks and is starting a format now, not sure if it'll let me get all the way through installation though, I'll keep you posted.
I miss IDE drives, they were so much easier If not a little slow. Posted 11 August - PM. I don't seem to be able to find any SATA drivers anywhere that work, the ones on the ASUS site don't seem to give me any joy, and all the motherboard documentation just seems geared towards setting up RAID configurations.
FortyCaliber New Member Member 1 posts. If you are not plugged in correctly, plug the SATA cable into the correct port on your motherboard that is, the primary one. Open your BIOS. This should disable the primary IDE connector on the motherboard.
Turn on the computer and open BIOS again. Ensure that the BIOS is reading all of your drives correctly. Ensure that everything we already have discussed is done.
Now try everything. Inside this folder there are several more folders and I decided to look in the folder named DriverDisk. OEM, which is exactly what the tutorial says I should be looking for. I copied these folders and file to a freshly formatted floppy. Going back to the non-working PC, I wait for the prompt to select F6. After pressing F6 the windows software continues to load and after a short time arrives at a screen asking me to insert the floppy containing the third party drivers into A: drive.
I insert the floppy and hit enter. The floppy drive powers up and I am asked to select from about 4 different versions of Windows. I select XP. The drivers apparently load. I select install Windows XP and am then greeted by the same message as previously, saying that no hard drive has been detected. I've gone over this countless times, just in case I might have missed something obvious, but can't see that I have.
Incidentally, I have entered bios and enabled SATA ports, and also swapped the cables both power and data to the drive, just in case one is faulty. However, all cables are brand new, so unlikely.
I have read that it is possible to overcome this issue entirely by disabling the SATA controller in bios, so that Windows 'sees' the hard drive as a standard IDE variety. Problem is, I can't be sure of how to do this in bios or even if the bios supports this and certainly anything I've tried so far doesn't seem to have made any difference. If not, can you suggest what should be my next move Any advice gratefully received. Here is the spec of the new hard drive and of the motherboard etc.
Joined Jan 30, Messages 3, Joined Aug 7, Messages 9, Thanks for all your help. I have downloaded the zip file from the PC Chips website just to be sure I've got the latest versions of everything. Make sure following directories and files are copied into floppy disk. Also, why do I need to run the included setup. Any more advice gratefully received.
Oh, one final thing that I read in the downloaded information from PC Chips and didn't actually stupidly check previously was whether the bios is actually seeing the installed drive before I begin loading the OS. I know that the settings were set to auto detect, but what if it isn't detected at all.
What should I do if this turns out to be the case? VIA Technologies,Inc. All Right reserved. Once you have located the drivers copy them to a formatted floppy disk. Make sure they are in the root directory i. Once you have done this save and exit. Windows will continue to install then ask you to locate the driver. To do this make the first boot device SATA if the option is available.
That should satiate just about anyone with a fetish for large hard drives. I was not the only the editor to have this issue, so I knew the cards weren't the problem. That means that any boards that will eventually reach the retail channel in the next two weeks will have these fixes that we worked on already installed, and we can be reasonably assured that the kinks have been worked out for a solid BIOS.
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Please note: Do not post advertisements, offensive material, profanity, or personal attacks. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. I just installed a new Seagate Sata hard drive in my computer. I already had one as extra storage, but I want to use this new one as my main drive to boot from. I have tried unplugging all other drives, just leaving Sata drives plugged in, leaving an IDE drive plugged in, nothing works.
I never get past this point. I'm at a loss as to what to do different. Can anyone give me ideas on how to get past this problem? I don't know how much longer the hard drive I've been using is going to hang on, so I need to get the new one into use. Share Flag.
All Answers. Collapse -. During install, press F6 when prompted for other disk driver. I have tried that. CD Rom. Maybe the mobo is a fluke indeed.
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