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Asus K8V SE Deluxe SATA Question
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I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks |
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"-- Paul --" wrote in message ... Hi, I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks you have the have the SATA drivers on a floppy disc and you therefore must have a floppy disc drive. when Windows is booting into the install prog look at the bottom of the screen and it will say something to the effect of press F6 to boot from floppy........this then loads the SATA drivers and the install will continue on its way. dj |
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-- Paul -- wrote:
Hi, I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks if windows boots from the 200g sata drive why don't you just put the 500g sata drive in and use both drives the 500g drive for storage. oy you can format 500g drive and copy contents of c: drive to it and if you have partition magic you could make the partion on the 500g drive active then reboot job done |
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"darklight" wrote in message ... -- Paul -- wrote: Hi, I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks if windows boots from the 200g sata drive why don't you just put the 500g sata drive in and use both drives the 500g drive for storage. oy you can format 500g drive and copy contents of c: drive to it and if you have partition magic you could make the partion on the 500g drive active then reboot job done that's NOT what op asked............. |
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Asus K8V SE Deluxe SATA Question
"Yes Baby" wrote in message ... "-- Paul --" wrote in message ... Hi, I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks you have the have the SATA drivers on a floppy disc and you therefore must have a floppy disc drive. when Windows is booting into the install prog look at the bottom of the screen and it will say something to the effect of press F6 to boot from floppy........this then loads the SATA drivers and the install will continue on its way. dj Thanks for your help. I do seem to remember using f6 when I originally installed this system, although it was about 3 years ago. These SATA drivers, are they provided by the manufacturer of my new 500gb HDD, or by Asus, who manufacture my K8V SE Deluxe mobo? |
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"darklight" wrote in message ... -- Paul -- wrote: Hi, I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks if windows boots from the 200g sata drive why don't you just put the 500g sata drive in and use both drives the 500g drive for storage. oy you can format 500g drive and copy contents of c: drive to it and if you have partition magic you could make the partion on the 500g drive active then reboot job done Thanks for your help. I need to reinstall XP as it's playing up. The 500GB disk added on for storage would not therefore work and neither would moving the current install to the 500gb and setting it as active. What may work, perhaps, is if I format my current 200GB and then attempt to install XP on that. As the system has no problem booting from this disk that should work, unless, after I've reformatted, I can't boot from that disk as I've overridden the driver or something like that ?#?! Any clues on this? Will the 200Gb be visable if I reformat it and attempt to then install Windows on it?? Cheers |
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Asus K8V SE Deluxe SATA Question
"-- Paul --" wrote in message ... "Yes Baby" wrote in message ... "-- Paul --" wrote in message ... Hi, I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks you have the have the SATA drivers on a floppy disc and you therefore must have a floppy disc drive. when Windows is booting into the install prog look at the bottom of the screen and it will say something to the effect of press F6 to boot from floppy........this then loads the SATA drivers and the install will continue on its way. dj Thanks for your help. I do seem to remember using f6 when I originally installed this system, although it was about 3 years ago. These SATA drivers, are they provided by the manufacturer of my new 500gb HDD, or by Asus, who manufacture my K8V SE Deluxe mobo? they should be on the cd supplied with the MoBo, if not then they will be available at the MoBo manufacturers site. |
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Asus K8V SE Deluxe SATA Question
-- Paul -- wrote:
"darklight" wrote in message ... -- Paul -- wrote: Hi, I've bought a new 500gb SATA disk for my PC and I want to install Windows XP on it. Currently I have XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive. I've disconnected this so it stays intact and I've plugged the brand new disk in, in it's place. The problem is that when the PC boots, it only seems to look for IDE drives, and not SATA. XP begins to install, but then fails saying no disk found. It's odd because when I put the smaller disk back in Windows boots fine, even though that too is a SATA. I need to tweak a file or something to tell the BIOS to look at the new SATA disk thats plugged in Does anyone know how to resolve this please? I've looked all through the BIOS. Many Thanks if windows boots from the 200g sata drive why don't you just put the 500g sata drive in and use both drives the 500g drive for storage. oy you can format 500g drive and copy contents of c: drive to it and if you have partition magic you could make the partion on the 500g drive active then reboot job done Thanks for your help. I need to reinstall XP as it's playing up. The 500GB disk added on for storage would not therefore work and neither would moving the current install to the 500gb and setting it as active. What may work, perhaps, is if I format my current 200GB and then attempt to install XP on that. As the system has no problem booting from this disk that should work, unless, after I've reformatted, I can't boot from that disk as I've overridden the driver or something like that ?#?! Any clues on this? Will the 200Gb be visable if I reformat it and attempt to then install Windows on it?? Cheers if you can still boot into the 200g sata drive install partion magic and reformate from there is will tell restart your pc or you can create partion magic boot disks you did not say if you had a floppy drive. |
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