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    Need desperate help on setting a storage SATA drive

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Murdoc, Mar 22, 2008.

  1. Murdoc

    Murdoc Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello folks, today I got my very first SATA HDD and I'm very excited to see what it offers, however, to my disappointment, I couldn't get it to work.

    I currently use 2 IDE drives. One is my primary drive (which I have windows installed) and the second drive is my storage drive. I'm hoping to replace my storage drive with this new 500GB Hitachi SATA drive. After plugging in all the wires, I boot up windows and receive a BSOD screen. I restarted and everything was fine until I realized I didn't get any notifications about windows discovering a new storage device. I couldn't find my new hard drive at all..

    I've done some searching on google and found that windows XP doesn't come with SATA driver support. So I downloaded all the required files nlite, via sata drivers and tried to do streamslip since I don't have a floppy drive anymore. I tried to boot up the windows installation CD, pressed F6 to try installing the sata drivers and for some reason it's still asking me for a floppy disk! I can't see my drive or do anything with it. If you know how I can fix this issue please help! Thanks in advance.
     
    Murdoc, Mar 22, 2008
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  2. redrazor11

    redrazor11 Formerly waterwizard11

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    i know! I had that same problem! It prettymuch killed my hopes for sata...untill 1)i buy a mobo with sata driver support onboard (do they make these?) Or untill 2)Microsoft comes out with windows 7, and its prettmuch the next windows XP
     
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  3. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    If your bios sees the drive you are fine. You just need to format the drive through disk management.
     
    nizzy1115, Mar 22, 2008
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