Ok I am fairly new at all this so bare with me. I recently just got a new DiamondMax 10 SATA hard drive, my old hard drive is IDE. I first attempted to pull out the old and stick in the new hard drive with my win xp cd to boot from. At the start of the xp installation it tells me there is no space to install too (apparently the computer doesnt know the HD is connected). So then I plug back in the old HD ( the IDE one ) and see if I can just use the new as extra storage. But even then my computer doesnt recognize the new hard drive. My motherboard is a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and has 2 SATA ports. After reading over a handful of different sites and help guides I checked in BIOS to see if there was anything regarding SATA that I need to enable. But I didnt see anything, although keep in mind I dont know exactly what I am looking for.
So what I am wondering is what do I need to do to get this computer to recognize the new SATA HD, is there somewhere I need to install drivers for my motherboards SATA connections to work or something in BIOS?
First thing you need to do is see if your BIOS is finding your drive during POST. Do you see your new drive listed during the first startup process after you boot your computer?
If your BIOS isn't finding the drive, you need to enter the BIOS setup and configure it to use the SATA drive.
If your BIOS is finding the drive, you most likely aren't loading the driver that allows Windows setup to see the drive. Your motherboard came with SATA drivers on a floppy disk. You will need to put that SATA driver disk in your floppy drive, reboot, start the Windows XP setup CD, and hit F6 when setup shows "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver". Then you just need to follow the on-screen instructions in order to install that driver so that you can install Windows to the SATA drive.
First thing you need to do is see if your BIOS is finding your drive during POST. Do you see your new drive listed during the first startup process after you boot your computer?
If your BIOS isn't finding the drive, you need to enter the BIOS setup and configure it to use the SATA drive.
If your BIOS is finding the drive, you most likely aren't loading the driver that allows Windows setup to see the drive. Your motherboard came with SATA drivers on a floppy disk. You will need to put that SATA driver disk in your floppy drive, reboot, start the Windows XP setup CD, and hit F6 when setup shows "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver". Then you just need to follow the on-screen instructions in order to install that driver so that you can install Windows to the SATA drive.
I dont see the drive listed during the first startup process. When I enter BIOS doesnt seem to be detecting a new drive. Possibly I am doing something wrong.
I cant remember if the motherboard came with the floppy for the SATA drivers or not but I dont have it now, I went to www.asus.com and dl'd some drivers for my model, havent been able to test that yet. But that only helps if BIOS is detecting the new HD? Or will that possibly correct the problem even if BIOS isnt detecting?
To the first question, my IDE controller cable runs to the old HD and then a SATA cable runs to the new HD, both completely seperate of course. (not sure if that answers the jumper question, only two plug -ins on the back of the new HD, one for the SATA cable running to the motherboard and a larger one from the power supply)
Ok I made the MaxBlast 4 floppy, boot up with it and everything seems to be going fine, then at the screen with Maxtor logo across it a error occurs saying 'Physical memory error' then the screen just goes to a dos screen with c:\>
Not sure what to do now. Thanks btw for all the advice.
Ok nm the above post, after following this site http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD0xNDIw I was able to load windows on the new SATA HD ( with the old disconnected ). Now when I connect the old IDE HD as slave ( shows in BIOS as primary slave ) the other HD doesnt show up at all, in BIOS or once it boots to windows. I disconnect the IDE HD and the computer then boots from the new SATA HD however in BIOS its not showing up still. So why isnt it showing up in BIOS? And how do I configure this so I can use both HD?
Some sata disks dont show up in the bios. You said that if you disconnect the IDE disk, the system boots off of the SATA disk. This shows the disk is connected fine and is being detected.
As to why both HDD's dont show up, Im not too sure abt that, but Im guessing that both hard drives have an active boot partition each. That may be causing a conflict. Try deactivating the active partition on your old HDD.
Oh, and SATA HDDs do not have any jumper settings to be configured...
Thank you goldeagle...that was a point that I wasn't sure about, I had problems adding a slave drive with my new Maxtor ATA, there was some controversy about being able to use cable select for both, or one having to be master and the other slave. :o
Oh, and SATA HDDs do not have any jumper settings to be configured...[/QUOTE]
Thank you goldeagle...that was a point that I wasn't sure about, I had problems adding a slave drive with my new Maxtor ATA, there was some controversy about being able to use cable select for both, or one having to be master and the other slave. :o
If you set both hard drives to cable select, you need an 80 conductor IDE cable. Plug the blue end to the mobo, the black end in the disk you want configured as master and the grey end to the disk you want as slave. If you're using the regular cable, you need to set one disk master and the other slave.
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