Fresh XP install on SATA HDD Problems

[Fox 3]

Hi everyone,
So I formatted my maxtor sata drive and partioned it using max blast 4. When I load my windows disk, it does't find my sata drive. It is recognized in the BIOS. Any ideas??

Thanks

[glc]

You do not have to format and partition with Maxblast - Windows setup will do that for you.

You need to press F6 and load the SATA drivers from a floppy for Setup to be able to find the drive.

Make sure you disconnect your card reader and your secondary drive or you will have an unwelcome surprise - the hard drive will not be drive C when you are done.

[Fox 3]

ok, that sounds like the ticket. Now I just finished looking on ASUS's site and found this driver:
Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 (ATA Mode):
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us


thanks a lot.

[Fox 3]

ok, follow up...I installed that driver to a disk and then pressd F6 when asked. After i selected that driver it continued, but then it still did not detect a drive to install windows too.

oh no.

~FOX~

[glc]

Which controller is the drive on - the Promise or the Via? Different drivers.

[Fox 3]

actually Im not sure. I tried both drivers with no luck. I just gave up and installed windows on my IDE drive, it found that one just fine.

Thanks glc.

FOX