Hi! i just bought new Western Digital 250GB S-ATA hard drive. No when im trying to install windows it says: "Windows could't find any Hard Drive installed. Please chek all power cords are plugged correctly plaa plaa plaa..." So how i can get my brand new hard drive work correctly? I have heard something about putting S-ATA Drivers on Floppy drive and in windows installion press F6 and select those drivers but i dont get it. Here is my system Specs: Motherboard:Asus A8V-Deluxe Processor: AMD64 Athlon 3500+ Venice Memory.1024MB 400MHZ PC3200 Graphic card: nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB AGP HD: Western Digital Caviar SE S-ATA 250GB OS: Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002
You hit the nail on the head. During setup it will ask for f6 if you need to load additional drivers. Well push f-6 and then once windows is done loading drivers it will ask for the floppy with the additional drivers you want to load?
I'm no expert, correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think SATA needed drivers except to set up RAID. I don't remember setting anything special up besides making sure new HD is formatted.
Certain older window os discs dont have the sata drivers built into them. The onyl ones with sata drivers was xp 64 bit and ones that I built with nlite and whatnot. The older home and pro xp doesnt. Maybe the newer xp does but I doubt it.
ozzy215 Writed: "You hit the nail on the head. During setup it will ask for f6 if you need to load additional drivers. Well push f-6 and then once windows is done loading drivers it will ask for the floppy with the additional drivers you want to load?" Yes, i have done that but even if i select those S-ATA drivers from floppy and continue windows doesent find my HDD. Im getting tired of this shit! Im gonna *piip* call to the Bill Gates and tell him to get his sorry *** down here. AARGHH IM LOOSING MY MIND!
Any possibility I'm running at PATA speeds and not know it? ANy way to check? I don't mean to hijack the thread, you enlightened me OZZY214 so now I need to make sure everything is running all proper-like and the such.
Hit delete at system start up and press autodetect to make sure the hard drive is being detected by the bios. If it is..hit f10 save and trying loading the sata drivers again. If it still dont work go to the manufacters site and d/l the latest floppy utility to make a startup disc with the sata drivers. If all else fails and I had to do it once. Load everything up on a back up drive. Make sure the sata drive is recognized under my computer. This way you know the sata drivers are installed. And the ghost everything unto the sata drive, But yeah better off not going that route cause then you have to rewrite the mbr code on the sata. So keep trying to get winblows to recognize the drive. As for the other guy. D/L HD TACH to do a comparisson speed test of yeah drive..
Hi guys, Kelpaako, your A7V is a fairly modern mobo. It uses VIA chipset and is built to be affordable, but it has many good features still. I think your exact model has native support for 2 SATA (VIA VT8237 Southbridge) and then supports another 2 on an onboard Promise 20378 controller. These must all be setup properly before anything else, in BIOS. Determine which SATA you are attempting to use now, and decide which one you ought to use - I recommend using the VIA one. Set it in BIOS to boot from it, but disable the RAID function for now. If you do not have more than 2 SATA drives you can also disable the Promise controller in BIOS for now. Setup your BIOS properly! (Not HDs only.) Is it correct and up to date? Now when you reboot and launch your installations you will know that you are F6-ing for the onboard VIA SATA controller, that you are set to boot from it, and you have your exact drivers ready to go. I ALWAYS install floppy drives, c'mon they're only $10 bucks (lunch money ;^) and sometimes handy too. Anyway, newer motherboards (like yours) should have native boot-support for booting from SATA devices. Older mobo's like mine (Socket A) you need to F6 to install Windows drivers, and that's it - I can't see my SATA harddisks in DOS mode, and could not boot from them in DOS environment. They are Windows-only, with drivers installed for their controller. So I need a good old UltraIDE harddisk but hopefully you don't :^) It is good to install Windows with a FAT System Partition. Your computer will boot from it 'rain or shine' and your precious ntldr and boot.ini will be safe (safe from NTFS) where you can keep an eye on them. The 2GB space is bonus, some like to keep files there, or Swapfiles etc. or Windows CD (a la Network Installation Share). Windows will label it C: and describe it as System Partition. It is also a requirement, if multibooting different OS's (ie. Linux) so be aware - system partition is yer pal ;^) edit: your friend (not european TV standard). Anyway, your Windows installation should see 248MB empty unpartitioned space which it will claim in the name of NTFS, and away you go. Hope this helps and you get your BIOS sorted out, good luck.
Hi! The_OGS Thanks for a reply but becose i am from Finland im not so good in English so if u can make step-by-step tutorial that would be Awesome. "Now when you reboot and launch your installations you will know that you are F6-ing for the onboard VIA SATA controller, that you are set to boot from it, and you have your exact drivers ready to go." That is one part that i didnt understand. And thanks for Everyone else for replying. I hope i get that **** working soon...
Hello, your English is very good! When you F6 to give Windows the SATA drivers, you need to have all your work done before already. Your work is in the BIOS. There are multiple SATA controllers in there; you need to select the one you wish to boot from. Set it as Primary Boot Device. You need to disable the other one, and you need to disable the RAID function on the enabled VIA SATA controller because you're not using them right now. When you press F6, you need to know which SATA driver it's asking you for, and which controller are you hooked up to anyway? You need to configure these things already with perfect settings before you start the PC and press F6. English, Finnish or Yiddish, you must learn to configure your hardware and your motherboard BIOS - or pay someone else to do it, LoL :^) But don't worry, we will counsel you... L8R
Hi! So do you mean i will but floppy drive as a primary boot device and CD rom drive as a secondary? BTW. About my English. I can write but reading is SLOW. So esspecially long text are little hard to read and offcourse some odd words.
I would always select and keep floppy #1 (it skips right over when empty), then CD-ROM #2, then Harddisk #3. Later when your Windows is up & running, most people would then enter the BIOS and promote harddisk to #2, and demote CD-ROM to #3. Regards
DAMN! Now i have VIA S-ATA drivers but HDD must be "activated" on the VIA driver BIOS. Now when i get in the VIA driver BIOS I cannot move the selection. In the side is reading: "Move selection with Arrows." But i cant see even the ****ing selection so how to hell i can move it!? But i am quite sure that if i can "activate" the HDD it will work. Any1 have solution for that moving problem?
Doesn't really matter about the floppy, but to boot from Windows CD and install, you must first set the CDRom ahead of the harddisk: #1 Floppy #2 CDRom #3 SATA HDD Didn't mean to confuse you with the System Partition suggestions, but you will have to set Boot Device order this way when you first start your actual Windows installation. Make sure the HD is plugged onto the first VIA SATA connector. It should be detected in your BIOS, and display in the list of Boot Devices. Do you see it there okay, but are just having trouble moving it up or down in priority?
Hi! I just founded that in my mobo has 4 four different S-ATA places. There are TWO Red wich are named SATA-RAID1 and SATA-RAID2 and then there is SATA1 and SATA2 and they are black. Where i must plug the S-ATA "bridge "??? And if I get it correctly. I must out the SATA "bridge" to the SATA1 so that means its on VIA "channel".?
Yeah dude! It's f***ing WORKING! I feel so dump. I just plugged the SATA "bridge" in the wrong place!!! But now its working and thats good. I want to thank you all for reply's! God bles You PEOPLE!
