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itsnot_myid

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i have AMD processor 1.8 GH, asus mother board(k8s series).every time during fresh installation of windows i have to provide my machine wih a floppy drive which is made earlier by using motherboard cd .if i dont do this messege comes after formatting the disc that "hard drive not found" can anyone help me to solve this problem .i wana make my system like intel pc requiring only window cd during installation not any floppy disc.my others friends are using amd +asus comination n they install window wihout any floppy drive backup but their motherboard is having different serial no.can anyone help me in solving the problem one person told me to disable an option in cmos but didnt tell me where in cmos n which option.help plz
 
Requiring a disk during the windows installation is not AMD or Intel based. Both machines could be like that. It all depends on your motherboard. About all you could do is switch from an SATA drive to an IDE hard drive. That or make a modified windows disk, but I forgot the name of the software to do so...
 
but my frnd is usins sata drive disc with motherboard from same company n doesnt need floppy drive to install window i want the same way
 
Your friend's model board apparently came with a driver cd for installing sata drives. Some newer models only see one ide controller with sata controllers already enabled in the "bios setup" not cmos. Asus has boards for both Intel and AMD alike with only one ide slot for optical drives while seeing sata HDs used for the OS host.

The remaining boards made by Asus or other makes will still see two ide controllers with the option of four or six sata drives. The make of the cpu doesn't decide how Windows installs onto a sata. With Vista you no longer need a floppy driver disk for the installer to detect a sata drive installed on the system. That's one improvement for Windows there.
 
itsnot_myid said:
but my frnd is usins sata drive disc with motherboard from same company n doesnt need floppy drive to install window i want the same way
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Might be the same brand of Motherboard but different Chipsets, theres still some VIA and SIS chipsets that Windows 2000-Vista does not have the Sata drivers and you have to install them with a floppy by pressing F6 during the install.
 
PC eye said:
Your friend's model board apparently came with a driver cd for installing sata drives. Some newer models only see one ide controller with sata controllers already enabled in the "bios setup" not cmos. Asus has boards for both Intel and AMD alike with only one ide slot for optical drives while seeing sata HDs used for the OS host.

The remaining boards made by Asus or other makes will still see two ide controllers with the option of four or six sata drives. The make of the cpu doesn't decide how Windows installs onto a sata. With Vista you no longer need a floppy driver disk for the installer to detect a sata drive installed on the system. That's one improvement for Windows there.
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The Sata drivers have to do with what chipset it has, it has (nothing) to do with if you have one or two IDE controllers or how many sata ports you have! 2000-XP and including Vista does not have odd ball chipset Sata drivers or new chipsets that have been released since the OS cd was released.
 
StrangleHold said:
The Sata drivers have to do with what chipset it has, it has (nothing) to do with if you have one or two IDE controllers or how many sata ports you have! 2000-XP and including Vista does not have odd ball chipset Sata drivers or new chipsets that have been released since the OS cd was released.
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The Vista installer now readily detects sata drives while they remain invisible and undetected without a set of drivers loaded from a driver floppy when going to install XP. The model of board will show what chipset is used there while the other system probably included the drivers on the recovery disk custom ordered from Microsoft with the drivers on the disk.
 
PC eye said:
The Vista installer now readily detects sata drives while they remain invisible and undetected without a set of drivers loaded from a driver floppy when going to install XP. The model of board will show what chipset is used there while the other system probably included the drivers on the recovery disk custom ordered from Microsoft with the drivers on the disk.
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Dont tell me about Vista, I have probably loaded Vista on more different chipsets then you have booted Vista! And you dont need to load Sata drivers for most chipsets with XP either!
 
StrangleHold said:
And you dont need to load Sata drivers for most chipsets with XP either!
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Read this and you may want to reconsider that ooe. http://www.computerforum.com/42913-xp-install-problems-single-sata-hd.html

That Asus model had a VIA chipset there while this one has an nForce 4. Several driver floppies and fresh downloads of drivers for the board there failed to see the XP installer even detect the disk. The method used for the A8N SLI model was to first boot from the board disk, format a floppy with the Asus option there, and then create the driver floppy while Windows was running.

When installing XP Pro to one of the sata drives here the driver disk is what made that possible since the first floppies kept seeing a one driver error stalling the installation. The Vista installer when going to install a repeat time to the second ide drive clearly saw the two sata drives as well "without" any drivers or driver floppy in the drive.
 
PC eye said:
That Asus model had a VIA chipset there while this one has an nForce 4. Several driver floppies and fresh downloads of drivers for the board there failed to see the XP installer even detect the disk. The method used for the A8N SLI model was to first boot from the board disk, format a floppy with the Asus option there, and then create the driver floppy while Windows was running.
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Didnt I say, that there were some VIA and SIS chipsets that XP didnt have sata drivers for! No you dont need to use a floppy to install a sata harddrive XP or 2000 on a nForce 4 chipset
 
The problem there is installing Windows on a sata drive without a driver disk not adding a sata drive to a system with XP already up and running. The Vista installer on the other hand sees sata as well as ide drives without first loading drivers from a floppy. For the XP Pro installer here on a board with an nForce 4 chipset a driver disk was still needed. And if it wasn't made up a certain way like described earlier one driver would refuse to load.

The link for the other thread was about a friend's case where I ended up loaning out an old ide drive still in use since he refuses to plug in the 200gb sata he wanted as a stand alone. That's a board with a VIA chipset where drivers from a floppy refused to load despite different methods used to create the driver floppy there.
 
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