Adding SATA Data Drive to PATA System - Help Needed

I have an A7N8X-E board with WinXP on an IDE drive. I installed a SATA
drive, to be used for data, but XP won't recognixe it. I got the Silicon
SATA driver, but am not sure what to do with it, or wheter it is needed.
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you very much!

I have an A7N8X-E board with WinXP on an IDE drive. I installed a SATA
drive, to be used for data, but XP won't recognixe it. I got the Silicon
SATA driver, but am not sure what to do with it, or wheter it is needed.
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you very much!



Yes you will need the driver. In the file you downloaded (presumably from
Asus's driver download area) there should be a setup exe file. Double click on
that and it should do its thing. You'll probably have to reboot, if windows
will find the drive. If it doesnt find it go to control panel, then
Administrative tools, then Computer management, then storage, then disk
managment and you can set up partions/format from there.

Good luck
~A

In article , azaran2003
@aol.com says...
I have an A7N8X-E board with WinXP on an IDE drive. I installed a SATA
drive, to be used for data, but XP won't recognixe it. I got the Silicon
SATA driver, but am not sure what to do with it, or wheter it is needed.
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you very much!

Yes you will need the driver. In the file you downloaded (presumably from
Asus's driver download area) there should be a setup exe file. Double click on
that and it should do its thing. You'll probably have to reboot, if windows
will find the drive. If it doesnt find it go to control panel, then
Administrative tools, then Computer management, then storage, then disk
managment and you can set up partions/format from there.

The SATA driver package consists of 8 files, with extensions .cat, .cpl,
..inf, .oem, .sys, .sys, .txt, .vxd. The two readable ones seem to be
oriented to installing the Sil RAID controller card, and therefore not
aplicable here. Of the others, I could not determine which one is the
loader.

However since I wrote the post I played around some more, and now it looks
like the problem may be within XP. So I wrote another post, which should
be right after this one.

Regards, Jim

XP works just fine with sata / pata mixed. I'm running on one right now BUT
you probably need to be at SP1. I don't know the A7N board but the A7V600
has a Bios setting and a jumper if I remember rightly.

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I have an A7N8X-E board with WinXP on an IDE drive. I installed a SATA
drive, to be used for data, but XP won't recognixe it. I got the Silicon
SATA driver, but am not sure what to do with it, or wheter it is needed.
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you very much!