SATA Drive install

JSquier

JSquier

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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
 
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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
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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
 
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?
 
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..
 
suprasteve said:
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?
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Actually, he does want to hit F6 because, as far as Win (and most times, the motherboard) is concerned a SATA drive is SCSI.

The drivers he wants to install will be specific to the motherboard's SATA/SCSI hardware interface.

The SATA spec is intended to replace SCSI by the way.
 
Supra i would suggest not posting anything if you dont know what your talking about.. You will just confuse the guy.

1. You will need to enable to use the SATA0 port (if it is a sata drive)
2. You will need to boot to the winxp cd and press f6 to load the scsi/raid drivers.. (YES YOU DO)
3. You will need to partiiton AND format the drive, which can be done with the disks you got from maxtor.

Windows WILL see the drive if the port is enabled, yet there is no drivers, BUT you wont be able to use it.
 
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