SATA driver confusion.

staplerz

staplerz

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I am trying to install windows xp on my Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250620AS 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. I am reformatting my hd right now and after its finished i am going to start to install xp. I have read alot about how to do it and i know everything but I'm just stuck on one part. because my HD is sata i need to install the drivers for it by pressing F6 during the installation process. I am getting the drivers off my mobo disk right now by going in to "BootDrv/MENU.exe" But i don not know what driver to install on the floppy. I am not useing RAID. All i did was connected my SATA hd directly to the Intel ICH8 connector. I am only using one hd. Here is a picture of where im confused. http://i5.tinypic.com/2s9sv84.jpg...The system I'm trying to install xp on is in my sig..Currently i am getting the STOP error. go here to view my post about that stupid error.
 
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You only need drivers if the windows installer can't see the drive. You have the drive plugged into one of the ICH8 SATA ports not one of the 2 different coloured ones right?
 
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Cromewell said:
You only need drivers if the windows installer can't see the drive. You have the drive plugged into one of the ICH8 SATA ports not one of the 2 different coloured ones right?
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Yes. its plugged into the Intel ones not the gigabyte ones.
Just as a test i put my HD in my other PC and tried to install windows and it worked just fine with no problems. So i dont think it my HD that is the problem. I think its my mobo. But i dont know what to do.
 
I HAD THE SAME PROBLUM! LOL! I had to install some "Third Party RAID Drivers" as it put it, where when you load the OS CD it boots up the disk it says "press-something- if you have the 3 party RAID drivers" It happened cuz I was from IDE to SATA with no IDE. You must use a floppy disk though. Its very annoying but it can be dealt with.
 
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I HAD THE SAME PROBLUM! LOL! I had to install some "Third Party RAID Drivers" as it put it, where when you load the OS CD it boots up the disk it says "press-something- if you have the 3 party RAID drivers" It happened cuz I was from IDE to SATA with no IDE. You must use a floppy disk though. Its very annoying but it can be dealt with.
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the thing is i dont know what drivers i need. because i bought my hd bare bone. and it didnt come with a driver floppy.
 
same here. Its was the MOBO drivers, but that was with a socket a MOBO... But yes it is very fixable. Try all of them. That's what I did and magically after one of them it worked! Although a smarter idea would have to been to format the SATA with the computer on using the IDE as your boot u...If I had thought of that I wouldn't have been in the same position you are in now. RAID or not you need those installed.

Edit- if you used the CD code once already it will not work again. ever. You can look on the back of almost and PC you get from a store and there is a stickers saying "genuine XP" yatta yatta yatta, there is a long code, it will work once. Believe me, I had to do that about, 7 times already from other PCs in my house!
 
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ADE said:
same here. Its was the MOBO drivers, but that was with a socket a MOBO... But yes it is very fixable. Try all of them. That's what I did and magically after one of them it worked! Although a smarter idea would have to been to format the SATA with the computer on using the IDE as your boot u...If I had thought of that I wouldn't have been in the same position you are in now. RAID or not you need those installed.

Edit- if you used the CD code once already it will not work again. ever. You can look on the back of almost and PC you get from a store and there is a stickers saying "genuine XP" yatta yatta yatta, there is a long code, it will work once. Believe me, I had to do that about, 7 times already from other PCs in my house!
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Okay. coo. ill go try it and i reply in like 10 min
 
ADE said:
same here. Its was the MOBO drivers, but that was with a socket a MOBO... But yes it is very fixable. Try all of them. That's what I did and magically after one of them it worked! Although a smarter idea would have to been to format the SATA with the computer on using the IDE as your boot u...If I had thought of that I wouldn't have been in the same position you are in now. RAID or not you need those installed.

Edit- if you used the CD code once already it will not work again. ever. You can look on the back of almost and PC you get from a store and there is a stickers saying "genuine XP" yatta yatta yatta, there is a long code, it will work once. Believe me, I had to do that about, 7 times already from other PCs in my house!
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lol. i never thought of that. but i have a better xp. [ :
its called "black xp edition"...you dont even need a key to install xp. [:
 
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