SATA Drive install

JSquier · 02-02-2006, 04:09 PM

I bought a Maxtor 300gig ATA150 drive and tried putting windows on it and it cannot see it. It is the only drive in there. I have the Maxtor 4 CD and floppy that I got off the site but I cannot seem to do to much with them. It does see it in DOS and all, just won't let me install windows, tells me that it cannot find a drive to install windows to. When installing windows, there is the option to hit F6 to install 3rd party SCSI driver or something, but I do that and it continues like I never hit it. With my IDE drive in there in windows, I can see the SATA drive and access and all, just can't install windows to it.

ANYONE have ANY idea what to do?

BTW, I did run the software to partition and format it, so no worries there.

Here's what it says:

SETUP DID NOT FIND ANY HARD DISK DRIVES INSTALLED IN YOUR COMPUTER.
MAKE SURE ANY HARD DISK DRIVES ARE POWERED ON AND PROPERLY CONNECTED TO YOUR COMPUTER, AND THAT ANY DISK-RELATED HARDWARE CONFIGURATION IS CORRECT. THIS MAY INVOLVE RUNNING A MANUFACTURER-SUPPLIED DIAGNOSTIC OR SETUP PROGRAM.
SETUP CANNOT CONTINUE. TO QUIT SETUP, PRESS F3

suprasteve · 02-03-2006, 04:03 PM

it's not scsi so don't bother with that, you sure you've got bios configured correctly to use the drive? It may be able to see it but not use it if you have bios in only ide mode

JSquier · 02-03-2006, 04:14 PM

It is enabled in the bios, but there is not any type of selection for IDE only. I've done about everything I can possibly do. When you hit F6 to install 3rd party drivers....does it imeadietly go into another screen or does it wait until that portion of the hardware check complete? I think that makes sense.

suprasteve · 02-03-2006, 04:24 PM

you don't want to hit F6 cause it's not scsi, but anyways, you know anyone else who would let you plug the drive into their computer to make sure it's working properly? Also could be as simple as a bad connection, do you have another sata cable you could try?

JSquier · 02-03-2006, 04:25 PM

Well, that's the thing, it works fine as a slave drive. I can use 100% of it for storage and see it in windows, I just can't install windows to it.

robina_80 · 02-03-2006, 05:07 PM

if its a sata hard drive you have to install the drivers on the motherboard bios.

suprasteve · 02-03-2006, 08:00 PM

that's true, but if it reads it then the drivers are installed. Try unplugging the ide drive and installing windows to the sata then

noissesboyobyalp · 02-04-2006, 11:02 PM

i think im having the same problem right now... i just got a new raptor hard drive that is sata. before i had the raptor i had a regular ata. i took the ata cable out of the mother board and the old hdd and put the raptor in and pluged the sata cable in. it does the same thing when i try to instal windows but... i dont know what to do with anything after this. can someone tell me how to fix it?

JSquier · 02-21-2006, 10:27 PM

I tried about everything and finaly gave up. I'll just wait and maybe try it again after I upgrade my m/b-cpu and vid card. It may be a problem with the mobo..

lethalforce · 02-22-2006, 11:20 PM

power supply?

02-02-2006, 04:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
JSquier Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 208	SATA Drive install I bought a Maxtor 300gig ATA150 drive and tried putting windows on it and it cannot see it. It is the only drive in there. I have the Maxtor 4 CD and floppy that I got off the site but I cannot seem to do to much with them. It does see it in DOS and all, just won't let me install windows, tells me that it cannot find a drive to install windows to. When installing windows, there is the option to hit F6 to install 3rd party SCSI driver or something, but I do that and it continues like I never hit it. With my IDE drive in there in windows, I can see the SATA drive and access and all, just can't install windows to it. ANYONE have ANY idea what to do? BTW, I did run the software to partition and format it, so no worries there. Here's what it says: SETUP DID NOT FIND ANY HARD DISK DRIVES INSTALLED IN YOUR COMPUTER. MAKE SURE ANY HARD DISK DRIVES ARE POWERED ON AND PROPERLY CONNECTED TO YOUR COMPUTER, AND THAT ANY DISK-RELATED HARDWARE CONFIGURATION IS CORRECT. THIS MAY INVOLVE RUNNING A MANUFACTURER-SUPPLIED DIAGNOSTIC OR SETUP PROGRAM. SETUP CANNOT CONTINUE. TO QUIT SETUP, PRESS F3 __________________ LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII Black Case ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe CrossFire Radeon XPRESS 3200 Athlon 64 4200x2 Manchester 2.2ghz-stock w/Zalman cooler CORSAIR 2 gig (4x512M) DDR400 PC3200 Sapphire x1800XT 256mb MAXTOR 320 gig 3.0gb and 300 gig ATA150 2 NEC DVD±RW drives 500-Watt Antec p/s Dual Dell 17" LCD Last edited by JSquier; 02-02-2006 at 05:12 PM.

02-03-2006, 04:14 PM	#3 (permalink)
JSquier Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 208	It is enabled in the bios, but there is not any type of selection for IDE only. I've done about everything I can possibly do. When you hit F6 to install 3rd party drivers....does it imeadietly go into another screen or does it wait until that portion of the hardware check complete? I think that makes sense. __________________ LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII Black Case ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe CrossFire Radeon XPRESS 3200 Athlon 64 4200x2 Manchester 2.2ghz-stock w/Zalman cooler CORSAIR 2 gig (4x512M) DDR400 PC3200 Sapphire x1800XT 256mb MAXTOR 320 gig 3.0gb and 300 gig ATA150 2 NEC DVD±RW drives 500-Watt Antec p/s Dual Dell 17" LCD

02-03-2006, 04:25 PM	#5 (permalink)
JSquier Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 208	Well, that's the thing, it works fine as a slave drive. I can use 100% of it for storage and see it in windows, I just can't install windows to it. __________________ LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII Black Case ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe CrossFire Radeon XPRESS 3200 Athlon 64 4200x2 Manchester 2.2ghz-stock w/Zalman cooler CORSAIR 2 gig (4x512M) DDR400 PC3200 Sapphire x1800XT 256mb MAXTOR 320 gig 3.0gb and 300 gig ATA150 2 NEC DVD±RW drives 500-Watt Antec p/s Dual Dell 17" LCD

02-03-2006, 05:07 PM	#6 (permalink)
robina_80 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: LONDON Age: 24 Posts: 2,076	if its a sata hard drive you have to install the drivers on the motherboard bios. __________________ Windows Vista Home Pre x32 AMD X2 4200+ ASUS HD 4850 1 GB 80gb 320gb 4Gb PC3200 Gbyte K8N PRO SLi 530W TAGAN 2FORCE Clabs Aud 2 ZS

02-21-2006, 10:27 PM	#9 (permalink)
JSquier Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 208	I tried about everything and finaly gave up. I'll just wait and maybe try it again after I upgrade my m/b-cpu and vid card. It may be a problem with the mobo.. __________________ LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII Black Case ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe CrossFire Radeon XPRESS 3200 Athlon 64 4200x2 Manchester 2.2ghz-stock w/Zalman cooler CORSAIR 2 gig (4x512M) DDR400 PC3200 Sapphire x1800XT 256mb MAXTOR 320 gig 3.0gb and 300 gig ATA150 2 NEC DVD±RW drives 500-Watt Antec p/s Dual Dell 17" LCD

02-03-2006, 04:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	it's not scsi so don't bother with that, you sure you've got bios configured correctly to use the drive? It may be able to see it but not use it if you have bios in only ide mode

02-03-2006, 04:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	you don't want to hit F6 cause it's not scsi, but anyways, you know anyone else who would let you plug the drive into their computer to make sure it's working properly? Also could be as simple as a bad connection, do you have another sata cable you could try?

02-03-2006, 08:00 PM	#7 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	that's true, but if it reads it then the drivers are installed. Try unplugging the ide drive and installing windows to the sata then

02-04-2006, 11:02 PM	#8 (permalink)
noissesboyobyalp Silver Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 219	i think im having the same problem right now... i just got a new raptor hard drive that is sata. before i had the raptor i had a regular ata. i took the ata cable out of the mother board and the old hdd and put the raptor in and pluged the sata cable in. it does the same thing when i try to instal windows but... i dont know what to do with anything after this. can someone tell me how to fix it?

02-22-2006, 11:20 PM	#10 (permalink)
lethalforce Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 384	power supply? __________________ cpu: AMD Athlon™ 64x2 dual-core processor hdd: Seagate Barracuda 200GB 7200 RPM ram: 1280mb corsair value ram videocard:BFG geforce 7900gt <-god mobo: ECS RS480-M V1.0 Micro ATX case: Antec SUPER LANBOY

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