SATA Hard Drive!

[JaGeR-]

Hi everyone this is my first post on TechImo so here it goes...

I just bought a new comp yesterday but windows XP packed in for some reason so i need to reinstall it, however, the new hard drive that i want to install XP onto is a SATA device and the XP installation disk does not read any hard drives when i run setup. The hard drive is recognised using the RAID utility that is with the motherboard.

The motherboard i purchased is the Abit NF7-S, and im using a 80gb hitachi SATA hard drive. I believe all the settings are correct in BIOS but im not really an expert so i could have missed something.

Is there any way to get the XP installation to recognise it or will i have to reinstall XP on my old IDE hard drive and then go from there?

I want to install XP on the new SATA hard drive, then plug the other hard drive in and copy all my old files across, so my bro can have my old HD. Any help would be appriciated.

Thx for listening guys...

[Jarhed7276]

Did you load the SATA drivers? When you first install windows it will ask you to press F6 if you have SCSI or other drivers to install. You need to press F6 then a little later it will ask for the floppy with the SATA drivers. Insert the floppy with the drivers and you should be good to go.

[JaGeR-]

Thx for the quick reply, ill do that now and see what happens.

[JaGeR-]

Thx Mate, its all good now, im installing xp now