Hi,
Just an update, my replacement drive came today, went home and everything worked
Just as a guide to anyone else trying to install a SATA HD on a Asus K8V SE-Deluxe, here is what I did :
- Unplug any IDE Hard-drives.
- Plug the SATA HD into the SATA 1 port on the Motherboard (Instead of SATA 2).
- Start up your PC and go into the bios and ensure that the primary boot disk is set as your CD-ROM, that any RAID Boot options are disabled and that the SATA BOOT ROM option is enabled.
- Restart your PC, then it should boot from your Windows installation CD, and keep a look out at the text bar at the bottom of the screen for when it says "press f6 to load extra drivers" (or something similar). Press F6 and then press s to "specify other devices" and it will ask you to enter your floppy disk with SATA drivers in (made by the makedisk.exe file on the ASUS motherboard CD).
- Load the drivers and then you will be taken to the windows license agreement, press f8 to accept and you will then be asked to specify a partition/drive to install windows on, your SATA drive should be shown, press "c" to create a new partition and format the HD.
- Windows should then start to install as normal.
By the way, this is assuming you are doing a fresh install of windows onto your SATA hard drive.
If I have missed anything out or got anything in the wrong order, please add/amend to this.
Thanks,
Sunny