Installing XP on SATA HD

[G_F]

Just dumped my two IDE drives in another NAS box and replaced them with two 400Gb SATA drives via a controller card (oldish MB) comp detects them, Windows wont.

WTF am i missing here?

 

[Gareth]

to load the RAID drivers when starting up the installation?

 

[Griff]

Did you select the option at the start of windows installation to install 3rd party drivers for the controller card?

 

[G_F]

Thats the one, cheers chaps

 

[G_F]

Wish i built it with a floppy drive now! lol

 

[Gareth]

lol, tell me about it, the work USB-floppy is a god send. Vista also allows you to use a USB-flash.

 

[G_F]

Ill be honest, i sacked off fitting a floppy and went to PCWorld eek and got a Pata for £50, 250Gb mind on offer.

Having to fit 80s technology to install 2001 software just didnt add up.

This is the first + point for Vista i have come accross (bar laptop use) ms just need to patch it

 

[Gumby]

Floppy drives are less than a tenner tho

 

[G_F]

Aye, but it would of been a waste, just to install some sata drivers, an extra 40 and i get more space, floppy's don't reside on my computers, starting to pain me having a cddrive

 

[GordonD]

My motherboard has a setting in the BIOS that sets the SATA controllers to emulate PATA controllers. Set it that way and the two SATA controllers just look like a third and fourth PATA disk controllers to Windows. It saves all that stuffing around associated with with installing Windows on a PATA drive. It also means I can boot DOS off a floppy and access the SATA drives.

For the life of me I can't understand why they didn't make PATA-emulation part of the SATA specification and/or do it on all motherboards. How it was done, and requiring the drivers to be installed from a floppy not a CD or anything else, just made things unnecessarily difficult.

 

[G_F]

For the life of me I can't understand why they didn't make PATA-emulation part of the SATA specification and/or do it on all motherboards. How it was done, and requiring the drivers to be installed from a floppy not a CD or anything else, just made things unnecessarily difficult.

Good point, tbh, i dont understand the hardware science much:S