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SATA drivers, motherboards and Windows
About the SATA driver, it can be useful only if I'm going to do an upgrade, is it right? Wrong! The SATA drivers for Vista have been a problem for many people. You must be careful to find Vista drivers for your SATA controller before you start to install. Because, when I'm installing via DVD boot,

Can't dual boot Vista Home Premium & Win XP Pro
I Can't for the life of me get it to install on the SATA drive though. I have tried putting the SATA drivers onto a USB drive, and even onto another partition of the HDD, and as well as the install CD (Streamlined). Slipstreamed. You must have stuffed that up. You dont have to slipstream it, just load it when you

Question About SATA DVD-RW And OS Installation
I wonder without the driver, will the SATA disk performs as a real SATA disk. Yep, like I said, that setting just affects how it looks to the OS, not how it works at the hardware level. Its only purpose is to avoid the need to load a driver to see the drive at the OS level.

Clone Vista onto new larger drive
When you've got 2000 installed on the SATA drive, what drive are you booting from? It can't be that SATA drive if it needs a driver to boot, since it would have to boot before it could load a driver. I guess you'd need a PATA drive too. I believe Jim is talking about installing SATA drivers for a fresh install of

Failed installations with Vista Professional 64 ona new comput
I don't recall being prompted for the SATA drivers during the load (F6) but I can't promise anything because it's been awhile. Any ideas? If Disk Management shows the drive capacity as 698GB, then Vista has to be using 48-bit LBA to access the drive. Disk Management shows the capacities of the partitions on the

Work around for SATA driver bug in Sarge 3.1r2 (how)?
Yes the salesperson gave you a line of BS...........and if you really wish to go back to 32bit you will need to format the 64 bit OS off the HD...tthen install the 32 bit OS loading the SATA drivers off a floppy when the OS asks you during the installation process. I would check all of my drivers to see if they

Windows Update just killed my PC
Do I need a special PCI card for the SATA Hard drive or is the SATA drive, a data cable, and power cable for SATA enough? I have the jumps enable for SATA support. TO use SATA is it much like an IDE HD or do I have to have 2 SATA drives and enable RAID stuff? Do I have to put a dos dics in my floppy and load dos so

IC7-Max3 SATA Drivers
Hmm, it doesn't crash when it's running with the same Realtek sound and drivers on the IDE drive... I'm thinking that may still mean it's the SATA drive itself. Loading Dump File [c:\windows\minidump\Mini011708-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is:

Vista 32-bit only sees 128gb of large hard drive
I would guess you are not loading the SATA drivers when prompted to press F6 during setup. If you are, and for some reason Windows is acting differently on your machine than I've seen it act on any of the 60+ dell's and gateway's I'm in charge of right now, then remove the ATA drive and leave only the SATA drive.

AMD64 and OS/2 update
JAD jdemm...@eartink.net alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt you would have a hard time loading SATA drivers as most look at 'A' only for the drivers... "We Live For The One We Die For The One" <eftern...@doktor.dk> wrote in message news:nilb10to6lcgrpqak2c5h18edov1ne3ulr@4ax.com... Would love to do this but my mobo

Changes from Windows x64 RC2 to RTM?
I did read somehwere that windows lacks SATA drivers but I can't even get windows to load for the first time to install them. am running a mem test with windows I don't recall the exact wording but it *does* ask if there are additional drivers you need to load (the wording does not specifically say SATA or chipset)

Vista installation freezes after "Windows is loading files..."
WinXP Pro doesn't recognize my SATA drive (it's all ok in BIOS). I read I can get around this problem by loading SATA drivers with a floppy disc after pressing F6 at the XP installation screen. However, I don't have a floppy drive (and actually, I can't install one either, my case doesn't have room for one).

32bit XP on 64 bit cpu's?
Ie can I install Windows without having to put some dodgy driver in from a floppy disk? Cheers, Dave Nothing at all wrong with loading a driver from a Floppy, may be you need some sort of Computer course.. ROTFLMAO and anyone who heard your XP install saga will join in, thanks for that Roger.

How to instal SATA drive - attempt #2
MS also have a routine for accessing a system with the error that you describe but you would need to be able to load the SATA drivers for that and you say you get a STOP error when you try to do that. But have a look anyway: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us best of luck Neil "Randalf72"

installing on SATA drive
The issue actually was with XP not loading SATA drivers with its setup program, but the genius BIOS creators forsaw this and added legacy support to SATA. *** So what is your final solution? Richard PS: Could you reset your newsreader to post in ASCII? I noticed that recently many posts now show "= A 0" characters

error loading os
I changed the SATA settings around and got the windows loading sign up but then it goes to the blue screen. I can't reinstall windows with the changed settings as it won't detect any HDD's. Sounds like XP. You need to put the SATA drivers from the motherboard CD on a floppy and hit the F key listed on the boot

Vista installation freezes after "Windows is loading files..."
For now it's just running one HD on IDE1 until my sata drives get delievered, and that's where my question comes in. Having never used SATA or SATA-RAID before I'ma tad confused. I know there are drivers on the floppy disk that came with the motherboard, for loading drivers during windows setup.

INstalling/Moving windows onto a SATA drive
This time I got further than before, so I pressed enter to bypass setting up the SATA (remember, I want to install this on the 2nd drive, which is IDE, not SATA. ;-) ), and it continued to load the rest of the drivers. However, it still reboots - I just get a little further than before (If it makes it easier to

IC7 G Noobie in tangle shock!
Are you hitting 'F6' during the install and loading the SATA drivers? If not, this may be why Vista doesn't see your drive. My latest thinking: try installing Windows2000 again but load the driver for SATA Hitachi HD (if I can find it--it wasn't on the CD the seller gave me). See below.

Open bugs
I also have 3 SATA WD Cavier SE16 250 gb SATA hard drives. Now that being said I cannot get VISTA to load on anything but an IDE hard drive I have left After the initial loading of the temp software, (on SATA or SATA RAID) I get a message that the driver is missing for the DVD/CD drive (SATA) and to install it.