Installing Windows XP on a SATA drive

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cas146

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I’ve been having serious problems with my computer and decided to simply reinstall everything from scratch including Windows XP. I had a problem in the past when I left IDE drives for SATA. The problem was that my MoBo would not recognize that the SATA drive existed. After some research I was able to get the BIOS to recognize the SATA drive and I got a floppy disk with the drives for the SATA to use. However, this technique is not working this second time around.

MoBo  ASUS A8V Deluxe Sctk 939

I have the latest BIOS version, it will recognize the drive but now I get a message when I try to install saying:

“Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adaptor currently. Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices:

<none>”

Then it gives me to option to hit “S” in which starts reading the floppy or I have the option to cancel. Of course I hit “S” it read it and then it asks me to put in the manufactures disk. In the disk are the drives I got from Asus to use when installing a SATA drive. Thinking that maybe my hard drive had turn bad I used a different SATA drive I had to use instead. However, my BIOS doesn’t recognize that any drives are hooked up period. I’m all out of ideas what do you guys think?
 
Some of the hard disk had a jumper set to SATA I , means set to 150 ms .
Some body say that this motherboard can't support SATA II / 300 MS.
:P
 
cas146 said:
I’ve been having serious problems with my computer and decided to simply reinstall everything from scratch including Windows XP. I had a problem in the past when I left IDE drives for SATA. The problem was that my MoBo would not recognize that the SATA drive existed. After some research I was able to get the BIOS to recognize the SATA drive and I got a floppy disk with the drives for the SATA to use. However, this technique is not working this second time around.

MoBo  ASUS A8V Deluxe Sctk 939

I have the latest BIOS version, it will recognize the drive but now I get a message when I try to install saying:

“Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adaptor currently. Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices:

<none>”

Then it gives me to option to hit “S” in which starts reading the floppy or I have the option to cancel. Of course I hit “S” it read it and then it asks me to put in the manufactures disk. In the disk are the drives I got from Asus to use when installing a SATA drive. Thinking that maybe my hard drive had turn bad I used a different SATA drive I had to use instead. However, my BIOS doesn’t recognize that any drives are hooked up period. I’m all out of ideas what do you guys think?
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Dont wait till it gets that far. When you first boot to the XP cd, about the second screen at the bottom it will say Press F6 to install third party drivers, Press F6 and pop your floppy in with your Sata driver. it will copy them off.
 
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Thanks anyways guy's but I've given up. My MoBo is too old anyways which is way I think I'm having such problems I"m going to buy a Gigabyte MoBo next time around.
 
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