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How do I boot from a SATA drive?
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I have installed a Gigabyte GA-KVT600 1394 motherboard and a Seagate SATA 7200.7 80gig hard drive. I am trying to get WinXP installed onto the new drive. My problem is that the drive is not seen in the bios. In the m/b manual it says I need to install the correct driver for proper operation and suggests that I download file "VT8237_SATA_Manual.pdf" from Gigabytes web site. Well, I don't know where it is hidden but I cannot seem to find that file at their web site. I have sent them an email, but as yet have not heard from them. Its seems that it is putting the cart before the donkey if I need to load drivers to get the drive to work. How can this be done without first loading the operating system! Thanks, Shane |
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You won't be able to see the device from the bios, you have to enable the
Onboard H/W Serial ATA & Serial ATA Function to [BASE]. Now you would see the device in POST. To install windows into the SATA drive you need to have the driver, adn can be found in the CD Rom that came with the board. Copy the file/s onto a Floppy. For windows xp fresh install: 1. Boot windows XP from CD Rom. 2. When the blue scren appears and asked you if you have any third party device drivers hit F8. 3. Sceen would show Sil ATA 3112a select it and follow the prompt to install. 4. now you could install winxp as if it was a PATA. note: if you have other PATA hard drives I recommend you detach it first before installing, because for some reason, windows would not assign drive C: to SATA forcing it to a PATA. Just attached the drive after you've installed windows XP. "no spam" wrote in message u... Hi, I have installed a Gigabyte GA-KVT600 1394 motherboard and a Seagate SATA 7200.7 80gig hard drive. I am trying to get WinXP installed onto the new drive. My problem is that the drive is not seen in the bios. In the m/b manual it says I need to install the correct driver for proper operation and suggests that I download file "VT8237_SATA_Manual.pdf" from Gigabytes web site. Well, I don't know where it is hidden but I cannot seem to find that file at their web site. I have sent them an email, but as yet have not heard from them. Its seems that it is putting the cart before the donkey if I need to load drivers to get the drive to work. How can this be done without first loading the operating system! Thanks, Shane |
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Hello, I have tried to install Windows XP using drivers on a floppy that I copied from the motherboard's installation CD. When my computer boots to the WinXP CD, I hit the 'F6' key and am able to install the SATA drivers for the installation up to the point when Windows re-boots the machine. Again, the system bios does not see the hard drive and I end up going through the same routine again with the machine booting from the WinXP installation CD. I have ensured that the "OnChip Serial ATA" is enabled in the bios. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thankyou "mouse777" wrote in message ... You won't be able to see the device from the bios, you have to enable the Onboard H/W Serial ATA & Serial ATA Function to [BASE]. Now you would see the device in POST. To install windows into the SATA drive you need to have the driver, adn can be found in the CD Rom that came with the board. Copy the file/s onto a Floppy. For windows xp fresh install: 1. Boot windows XP from CD Rom. 2. When the blue scren appears and asked you if you have any third party device drivers hit F8. 3. Sceen would show Sil ATA 3112a select it and follow the prompt to install. 4. now you could install winxp as if it was a PATA. note: if you have other PATA hard drives I recommend you detach it first before installing, because for some reason, windows would not assign drive C: to SATA forcing it to a PATA. Just attached the drive after you've installed windows XP. "no spam" wrote in message u... Hi, I have installed a Gigabyte GA-KVT600 1394 motherboard and a Seagate SATA 7200.7 80gig hard drive. I am trying to get WinXP installed onto the new drive. My problem is that the drive is not seen in the bios. In the m/b manual it says I need to install the correct driver for proper operation and suggests that I download file "VT8237_SATA_Manual.pdf" from Gigabytes web site. Well, I don't know where it is hidden but I cannot seem to find that file at their web site. I have sent them an email, but as yet have not heard from them. Its seems that it is putting the cart before the donkey if I need to load drivers to get the drive to work. How can this be done without first loading the operating system! Thanks, Shane |
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