SATA Drive, what am I doing wrong?

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BKSinAZ

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I am currently working on my mom's HP Pavilion DV5000 notebook. Her hard drive took a dump. I just purchased a new Western Digital Scorpio SATA hard drive and I am attempting to install XP on to it. I've replaced 100's of IDE hard drives into desktops and laptops before, but this is my first SATA. When I boot off my Windows XP Pro installation disk and attempt to install XP, it states something like "no hard drives were found installed on this computer, can not continue with install". When I go into the bios and disable the SATA, the computer recognizes the drive. This is confusing. Is the SATA suppose to be enabled when using a SATA hard drive? Also, is there suppose to be a driver with a sata drive?
 
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There is a spot during the XP install that prompts you for any 3rd party drivers. Did your new HDD come with a CD or disk? If so, look for the prompt during the setup process, and press the key it tells you to, then follow instructions for loading the drivers.
 
as imsati said you need to install the SATA drivers for it. These come with your motherboard, not usually with the drive. If you cant get it to work just by burning a driver cd, my recommendation would be to use a process called slipstreaming, where you put the drivers right into the windows installation cd. google it, there are lots of step by step instructions.
 
Is the SATA suppose to be enabled when using a SATA hard drive? Also, is there suppose to be a driver with a sata drive?
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I'd say if it works with it disabled go with that :)

It could be setting it to SATA switches it to the controller to AHCI mode which would be why you need drivers for it to show up in XP setup.
 
Cleric7x9 said:
as imsati said you need to install the SATA drivers for it. These come with your motherboard, not usually with the drive. If you cant get it to work just by burning a driver cd, my recommendation would be to use a process called slipstreaming, where you put the drivers right into the windows installation cd. google it, there are lots of step by step instructions.
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Heh, I'm old-school like that sometimes :P Used to get my HDD at Circuit City (before I found Tiger) and I'd get a 7# box of goodies :)
 
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