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January 21st, 2004, 12:46 PM
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| new system, but can't install w/ a SATA drive... help please
Hey all, I have a new system that I put together yesterday. However, I'm having a few problems.
As far as I can tell, all of the hardware is working great. I have
abit NF7-S mobo
hitachi 80GB SATA drive
512 333 corsair ram
I can boot, post, and have no problems. The SATA drive is recognized. I have 2 problems though.
1) When I boot with a floppy, and fdisk, it only sees the drive as having 12GB (or something close to that).... I just partitioned off and formated 5GB of that fo the OS (as I normally do)., then after format, I can access the drive with no problems at all... so hmmm...
2) when I boot with the windowsXPpro CD, everything seems to be going along fine until I get to the option to "install XP press ENTER". At that point, it says that no drives are found to install to and press F3 to reboot the system.
now I have tried just about anything that I can think of to get this too work. I have upgraded the BIOS to the most recent revision and everything, but I am at a total loss and I think that it's got to be the SATA thing.
can anyone please help me? ? I'm dying to mess around with this thing!!
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January 21st, 2004, 12:49 PM
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You have to hit F6 when it asks if you have to install a 3rd party SCSI controller and then install SATA controller drivers from a floppy drive to install Windows to a SATA drive. I believe that would be the problem. Hope this solves the problem.
Shawn
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January 21st, 2004, 02:35 PM
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shawn, at what point am I supposed to be hitting F6?
see... I had the SATA drivers on the floppy, and I watching for some sort of prompt, but apparently I totally missed it. I presume this will be sometime around when the SATA BIOS (for lack of a better way to describe it) screen appears. (which is directly after the normal POST)
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January 21st, 2004, 02:39 PM
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The Windows setup will ask you if you have to install a 3rd party thing like shawn said. You will see it on the bottom of the screen. Just press F6 when it says. Your hard drive did come with a floppy, right? | |
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January 21st, 2004, 04:58 PM
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yeah.. it came with a floppy...
but I'm really not remembering the windows install prompting me for drivers... I'll take another look.
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January 21st, 2004, 05:05 PM
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It is in the beginning of setup ( first of the blue screen). You only get 2 seconds so be ready.
It does nothing at that time, but will ask for a disk during instalation, but only if you hit f6 in the beginning
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January 21st, 2004, 05:43 PM
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haha
great
ok..i'll watch
thanks all
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