Need to setup a SATA thing :(

[CeeJay]

ok, ive been messing around with my mates puter for ages now trying to get it going.
i need to install a SATA hard drive in his pc and put windows XP onto it too.
ive tried installing xp and it wont detect the hard drive at all. ive installed the windows based drivers for the sata and it will detect the drive in system manager. but it wont appear in my computer.

what am i doing wrong?

the mother board is a gigabyte k8nnxp.

any help would be fantastico!

cheers

[CeeJay]

anyone help me out, even if its just the basics of sata setup as ive not done it before

[myth]

you mean a 8knxp? I have that mobo!

are you trying to instal it on the sil sata or the intel ones? thoes 4 sata ports... are from two different chips! The top two I *belive are the intel and the two under are the silicon images... Also are you trying to instal the window while in windows? or do you try to instal from boot? If you instal from boot make shure to hit F6 then put the flopy in with the drivers and instal BOTH the intel and silicon image drivers...

Let me know if that helps! Also you can MSN me for a quicker response...

[CeeJay]

sorry mate it is a k8nnxp:
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/..._GA-K8NNXP.htm

its got the 2 sata ports on the bottom of the board, and they are silicon images. ive tried doing it from windows, didnt work. and ive tried doing it from boot with F6, didnt work.
ive tried all the different drivers on the mobo's cd and from the gigabyte website but it still doesnt work, im worried its something simple im missing.

[Roughlad]

Hope u remebered to get the drivers for the hard disk so windows can access it. i made the same mistake till sum1 told me to goto the seagate website for disk keeper or disc wizard or sumin like that so goto the manufacturers web site and look for info.

[myth]

sorry mate it is a k8nnxp:
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/..._GA-K8NNXP.htm

its got the 2 sata ports on the bottom of the board, and they are silicon images. ive tried doing it from windows, didnt work. and ive tried doing it from boot with F6, didnt work.
ive tried all the different drivers on the mobo's cd and from the gigabyte website but it still doesnt work, im worried its something simple im missing.

Dam gigy names!!! lol...


Did you enable it in bios?

[CeeJay]

ive enabled it in bios and i cant find any maxtor sata drivers anywhere.
got any more ideas guys?

[myth]

ive enabled it in bios and i cant find any maxtor sata drivers anywhere.
got any more ideas guys?

You could try to read the manual a few more times... I am hoping its user error and not a messed up mobo or drive! I can think of nothing else realy...

[catattack]

I dont even know what SATA is?!! Whats so great about it?

[myth]

I dont even know what SATA is?!! Whats so great about it?

Serial as aposed to pat... Well it has a higher band with, uses smaller cables and can be hot swaped...

[CeeJay]

ok so ive got the sata installed now with windows and the sata drivers etc.
but when i connect up my other ide drives, (theres one with the original windows installation on it) it doesnt load windows and just gives me a blank screen.
do i have to do anything else to get the drives working together?

cheers

[myth]

When you add another drive the bios tends to over ride your boot sequence! Go into bios and select your boot disc agin...

[CeeJay]

thanks, ill give it a go.

[CeeJay]

ive tried selecting it all in the bios again and it still wont boot up from it with windows on, all i get is the bios screen, then the screen goes black and nothing happens.
anyone got anymore ideas i could try

[pre]

do you have a floppy boot disk? something like a win98 install cd or something. normally what happens when you plug in IDE drives is on some mobos because the SATA is an external controller that the mobo sets IDE drives to C:\ D:\ and then E: onwards for a SATA drive so if you installed XP with the SATA set to C: it looks on the wrong HD when you plug in IDE drives after an XP install.

You may not be able to read the drives though since XP formats to NTFS by default so a Win98 cd might not detect anything. There are some floppy boot disks with NTFS dos drivers though. As a last resort you could try to reinstall with the IDE drives plugged in (I guess).

[myth]

Well, in my bios I can just select the drive I wish to boot from... If you selected the proper drive and it wont boot, try removing the IDE drive then rebot...