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Fixboot SATAdriver
You are either not loading the drivers via F6 or have the wrong RAID controller set to RAID in the BIOS, or have the drives plugged into the wrong SATA ports. I have also tried, as I said, loading the SATA drivers (and they do load) from a FDU. I have also tried loading the drivers from the cdrom which windows

Unable to install XP on Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board. I'ma moron ...
Never needed to load SATA drivers from floppy. That is when the HD is connected to the primary SATA controller. "DaveW" <somewh...@zero.org> wrote in message news:PpednbEqhpDeOIDYnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@comcast.com... For starters, XP cannot recognize more than 137 GB of harddrive size UNLESS you have the version of XP"s

How to made XP add SATAII HDD to hardware list
This sounds like a good idea to me. So far you appear to have maintained an enviable record of not jeopardizing your original server in any way. To maintain this record, I would make sure to create a ghost file and store it in a safe place ***before*** loading the SATA drivers.

Windows Problem
Just trying to figure out why a system that was rock-solid (2-3 month uptimes, easily, only planned downs), to going all flako on me when I tried to add SATA and upgraded kernel to include latest SATA code & drivers. Unfortunately part of that was adding udev in place of a static /dev, so that's another unknown

NF7S v2 + Windows2000 + SATA
I am assuming: W2K then SP2 then chipset drivers then graphics. Actually I assumed SATA would come before graphics but I guess that comes back to my main question. Thanks! Ian You have to press F6 on the first loading screen of the install. It mentions that but as a simple text line at the bottom of the page.

Whos dumped their floopy and now use usb stick to boot from ...
But how does this work out with SATA drives when you attempt to mix them with USB 2.0 Hard Disk external units? The rule is all fixed drives before removables. System hangs (sometimes followed by a trap) during installation or reboot with messages "Loading, please wait. ..." or "OS/2 is unable to operate your

RIS hanging at "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware"
I would add some things: 1) I see so many references to loading SATA drivers that it might also be helpful to know whether SATA drives are visible to DOS partitioning software like Microsoft's Fdisk or Norton Ghost's Gdisk.exe when the system is booted from a W98 boot floppy/CD. I'm assuming that if they are

Migrate PATA to SATA with Drive Image ?
Have tried an Intel driver with no luck. How can I find drivers to work with this? The exact path would be great. Thanks, WICCX When you boot into the BIOS, you can change the HD controller from SATA to IDE. Even though you have a SATA hard drive in your system, it will work with no need to load drivers by pressing

Maxtor SATA Primary & WinXP...Won't install...
The drivers needed to access the disk will still be loaded, but at a later stage. By loading the CD drivers before the SATA driver in this way, you may be able to complete the installation. Note that CD-ROM access may still be an issue after rebooting into the installed system." I have tried using the above method,

SATA Drivers Not Loading During GUI Setup Stage
Geronimo wrote: Nothing at all wrong with loading a driver from a Floppy Well, isn't it kinda crap? Like, here's the PC industry trying desperately hard to shed it's "still derived from a 1984 IBM AT" image, and twenty years later I need a floppy to make something work. I wasn't planning on putting a floppy in this

Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
Are you doing anything special during the XP install, like loading SATA drivers? You should not be loading SATA drivers if you are - VPC emulates IDE, not SATA -- --Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - IIS, Virtual PC] http://www.visualwin.com - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step tutorial site

Installing SATA hard drives in Win XP Pro
I traced the information you gave about the SATA driver and faced an important fact at ASUS site: the BIOS of my MoBO was old, and I found a very newer 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.

SATA ntfs boot error
Before doing so made these BIOS changes: load optimized defaults DRAM timing mode auto -> maxmemclk memory clock ddr2 400 -> ddr2 800 spread spectrum disabled -> enabled (the SATA disk jumper is off, so it is set to SS enabled.) changed the boot order to CD, Disk, Nothing boot other device enabled -> disabled full

Error loading operating system - help!!!!
jarhedch jarhedch.357...@no-mx.forums.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup it never asked to load SATA chipset drivers, i never got that far. 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

Ga 7n400 pro2 and sata Help!
Responses: According to Western Digital (drive is a wd5000aaks) their drives are shipped formatted to FAT32. Doesn't matter here because BIOS can't see the drive anyway. As for loading the SATA drivers during the OS installation -- I don't understand . . . what does F6 do? In any case how can I install an OS on a

windows installs to c only not sata if both are formatted already
However, I'm unable to load whatever drivers are necessary for my motherboard in order that the setup program will recognize my SATA drives. So I'm getting Unknown Disk x 2 when it asks me where to install it (I have another SATA drive that's blank). I have an nForce 4 motherboard and I tried throwing the drivers

Tasks requiring FDD... ?
Hit F6 <immediately> you see the request for 3rd-party drivers. 5. Continue with the install and load BOTH sets of XP SATA drivers from the IC7-G floppy when requested during the install sequence. If you never see this request before leaving the "blue-screen" you either know you hit F6 too late, or you did not

SATA on W2K
Clarifications appear below: SATA or RAID drivers are only used in a RAID set (2 or more hds), Agreed... I have two hard drives. this has to be configured before xp is installed,then booting to xp cd,you'd press F6 to install drivers for the set for xp to install with the OS. I have already got the drivers loading

Boot from USB PRM (Partitioned Removable Media ) failed after ...
Stuart M. Ray stuart_m_...@community.nospam microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment microsoft public windows server setup Hi All, I am trying to put "Documents and Settings" onto my SATA (D:) drive along with Inetpub. I have successfully been able to slipstream the SATA drivers into my Windows Installation CD

SATA drivers, motherboards and Windows
Windows will continue loading all normal drivers and then ask you for a floppy with the extra drivers you wish to install. I just cycled through my four disks *There are ways to make an CD that has the SATA driver and Windows install files together, but you'll have to google for it if you want to try that.