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Formating SATA Drive on P4PE
I have been working with an ASUS P4PE motherboard with three ULTRA ATA
drives for about a year. No Raid. I just bought a Serial ATA drive and am attempting to format it. I connected only the SATA drive and booted via WIN 98 floppy. I'm a little sketchy on what to do next. I think I'm supposed to run FDISK. If yes then I receive the error "no fixed disks present." I intend to install a single SATA drive on the P4PE, without RAID. I'm not clear on what to do next. Ultimatly I would like to run three ULTRA ATA drives and one SATA drive, all non RAID. The manual isn't clear if this configurtion is possible. Thank you for any help. -- Avery |
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Did the drive not come with a utilities CD? That would allow you to format
the drive. Also, if the drive isn't new, it may be in NTFS format. Which if I'm correct, Dos can't see. (I'm half asleep here but I hope this helped) "Avery" wrote in message om... I have been working with an ASUS P4PE motherboard with three ULTRA ATA drives for about a year. No Raid. I just bought a Serial ATA drive and am attempting to format it. I connected only the SATA drive and booted via WIN 98 floppy. I'm a little sketchy on what to do next. I think I'm supposed to run FDISK. If yes then I receive the error "no fixed disks present." I intend to install a single SATA drive on the P4PE, without RAID. I'm not clear on what to do next. Ultimatly I would like to run three ULTRA ATA drives and one SATA drive, all non RAID. The manual isn't clear if this configurtion is possible. Thank you for any help. -- Avery |
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You need to install sata drivers, whether you use raid or not "Paul" wrote in message ... In article , (Avery) wrote: I have been working with an ASUS P4PE motherboard with three ULTRA ATA drives for about a year. No Raid. I just bought a Serial ATA drive and am attempting to format it. I connected only the SATA drive and booted via WIN 98 floppy. I'm a little sketchy on what to do next. I think I'm supposed to run FDISK. If yes then I receive the error "no fixed disks present." I intend to install a single SATA drive on the P4PE, without RAID. I'm not clear on what to do next. Ultimatly I would like to run three ULTRA ATA drives and one SATA drive, all non RAID. The manual isn't clear if this configurtion is possible. Thank you for any help. -- Avery If it is a RAID only controller, you might try entering the RAID BIOS via control-F. The RAID BIOS has to load and detect some drive(s) to work with, for that key combo to work. Some RAID controllers will accept a request to prepare a single drive (I expect it is declared to be a RAID 1 mirror, but with only one drive in the mirror, making it effectively a single drive). Use the "Auto Setup" option and see what happens. If you download the pdc20376.zip driver file from the Asus web site, the ZIP file has a Win9x-ME.txt file in it. Have a look at that. HTH, Paul I am working through the same issue (although I presently have a problem with the drive's boot sector being recognized). After I installed the Promise driver from the zip file, I changed the BIOS (Advanced, then scroll all the way down the page to PCI..., I think, highlight that, and look for the option for the Promise SATA/RAID in the list. Only when that is enabled will you see the option for the Onboard ATA First) to enable the Promise RAID, and set the Onboard ATA First to enabled (it is per instructions in the manual pager 5-25---the manual is available for download from the ASUS website). On boot, the RAID BIOS option is entered with Control-F. What I finally figured out was to set the single drive as a RAID0 array of one disk (that basically was the only option) and that seems to do it. For anyone who has set this up: it is the case that during POST, when the Primary Hard Disk is being sought that the message returns that there is none? That seems to be the case for me and after that, the Promise BIOS states that an array is present and the BIOS or driver was loaded. POST continues.. |
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