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Hi My brother's PC crashed, when he tried switching it on again it didn't recognise the SATA hard drive as the mother board is older. I have the XFX CDs but there is no facility to make a floppy to boot and install the drivers for the hard drive.
mgbrake, thanks, below is the info I got from my nephew who built it. I don't have the PC here as by all accounts I just need teh drivers on floppy.
rulds2008- I'm on driver guide at the momnet but it's on about flsahing the BIOS which is not what my brother or I have done.
INFO: When you install a fresh copy of windows on a machine with a SATA drive, if it's an oldish motherboard (which his is) the windows setup doesn't see the SATA drive. To make it see the drive, you have to hit F6 and load some additional drivers. The only way you can do that is to have them on a floppy disk. It's the only medium you can use to do it.
To make things worse, some compaines sent out the floppy disks with the motherboards, but some didn't. I'm not sure about Aidan's but he reckons he doesn't have a floppy. Anyway, the ones that didn't usually have a utility on the driver CD (the one you sent me) that allowed you to make the floppy yourself on another machine.
I've had a look thorugh this CD and I can't find a utility anywhere that lets you do this, so it sounds to me like there was a floppy disk sent with the motherboard that he hasn't got. Sometimes this can be remedied by finding the right drivers online, but so far I've had no luck at all. The company who make or made his motherboard ( XFX KT400-ALH by the way!) don't acknowledge it anymore, and there's nothing comes up in google that's worthwhile.
I'm going to have a sift through our floppys and see if I can find one
mgbrake, thanks, below is the info I got from my nephew who built it. I don't have the PC here as by all accounts I just need teh drivers on floppy.
rulds2008- I'm on driver guide at the momnet but it's on about flsahing the BIOS which is not what my brother or I have done.
INFO: When you install a fresh copy of windows on a machine with a SATA drive, if it's
an oldish motherboard (which his is) the windows setup doesn't see the SATA
drive. To make it see the drive, you have to hit F6 and load some additional
drivers. The only way you can do that is to have them on a floppy disk. It's the
only medium you can use to do it.
To make things worse, some compaines
sent out the floppy disks with the motherboards, but some didn't. I'm not sure
about Aidan's but he reckons he doesn't have a floppy. Anyway, the ones that
didn't usually have a utility on the driver CD (the one you sent me) that allowed
you to make the floppy yourself on another machine.
I've had a look
thorugh this CD and I can't find a utility anywhere that lets you do this, so it
sounds to me like there was a floppy disk sent with the motherboard that he
hasn't got. Sometimes this can be remedied by finding the right drivers online,
but so far I've had no luck at all. The company who make or made his motherboard
( XFX KT400-ALH by the way!) don't acknowledge it anymore, and there's nothing
comes up in google that's worthwhile.
I'm going to have a sift through
our floppys and see if I can find one
Finally my brother has tried the Flash bios driver from 'driverguide' I sent on floppy, but he gets an error backing up the current BIOS and trying to flashh install the new one (see picture).
Any advice on this? Thanks
Finally my brother has tried the Flash bios driver from 'driverguide' I
sent on floppy, but he gets an error backing up the current BIOS and
trying to flashh install the new one (see picture).
So, no onboard SATA, and you are trying to load the drivers for a SATA card? SATAless motherboards require an IDE drive or disc or CD to boot first... So, no onboard SATA, and you are trying to load the drivers for a SATA card? SATAless motherboards require an IDE drive or disc or CD to boot first...
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Yes but there is a option to where you can use the sata in IDE mode with does not hurt it a but, you do this on your bios.Yes but there is a option to where you can use the sata in IDE mode with does not hurt it a but, you do this on your bios.
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IF the hard drive is a SATA hard drive, you will first of all need to download the SATA drivers for te motherboard and copy them to a Floppy drive on another computer if yours will not work, this may also affect why it is not "seeing" the Cd drive if this is a SATA one too
Try installing Windows and when the message " press F6 if you want to ...." appears, have the floppy inserted in teh floppy drive so it can find thr SATA drivers, it will then recognise the Hard drive and install
You must have latest Windows Xp CD .
Latest Motherboard chipset does not recognise hard disk without proper sata raid or sata driver. So you can install sata driver if u have USB floppy drive by downloading latest Sata raid to floppy. At the time of installation you will see a message press f6 to if u need to install raid driver.then press f6 asking for floppy drive and floppy insert press enter to continue.
XP does not have a SATA driver on the installation CD, you need to either download a SATA driver and when XP ask at the start of the installation you need to provide a SATA driver for the hard disk, press F6, the driver is usually installed from the floppy disk.
Alternately if your BIOS will allow you to set up the SATA drive as a ATA drive, do so and after XP is installed then install the SATA driver.
Hi, your Windows XP install CD doesn't have SATA drivers for the hard drive included, so it's not able to address your hard drive. You can't disable SATA in the BIOS to make it work since your hard drive is still SATA. You'll need to get a 3.5" floppy disk and drive if your laptop doesn't have one. They make external 3.5" USB floppy drives that will work.
1. download the SATA drivers for your laptop (iastor.sys and inf)
2. copy the drivers to your floppy disk (about 6-7 files)
3. plug the floppy drive into your laptop
4. boot to the Windows XP CD
5. as soon as the installation starts, it asks you to "Press F6 to specify RAID or controller drivers" - Press F6 now
6. When setup asks for it, point it to the floppy drive
7. Installation will continue and find your SATA hard drive
I think you have a sata drive here. If so you need to install sata drivers for set-up to recognise the disc. Download the drivers from manufacturers site: use link below (I know its HP but its the same model different badge):
When installing XP press F6 at first set up screen (you are prompted - look at the bottom of the blue screen) and then later you are prompted for the drivers
You need to be able to use or attach a floppy drive for this and the sata drivers obviously need to be on the floppy disc.
You could try placing hem on a usb stick and setting the bios to read from it a second boot option
If you mean the drivers for your SATA harddisk, you should have gotten a CD with your motherboard that contains drivers they might be labeled as RAID, sata, or EIDE controller. when you click that it should prompt you for a floppy disk to put the drivers on, you need to put a floppy disk in drive A and then extract the RAID drivers to your floppy, when installing windows press F6 at the begining of the installation and it will act like it didn't work for a minute and then it will pop up asking you something, you press S and then you will be asked to insert your floppy disk. It might ask you if you want to install the x86 or x64 drivers, x86 is 32bit and x64 is 64 bit, if you don't know which you are using it should tell you somewhere on your windows disk. another option is to get a sata controller that isn't part of your motherboard, it would be a pci-e card and it would come with drivers. I don't know where you could download your drivers from because I think the driver you need is specific to the type of SATA controller your motherboard has in it, but I do know that seagate and western digital have sata drivers available as well for their harddrives so I don't know what to tell you. best shot is your motherboard driver CD.
Sounds like you need your manufacturer's SATA drivers.
This problem exists a lot when installing Windows from scratch on SATA hard disks. When you start the installation, Windows prompts you to "load additional drivers". It's at this point you put a floppy disk with the SATA drivers in.
If your install is already working, but just stopped as you say... then you could hunt around the BIOS for a SATA "compatibility" mode, which will get you booting straight away. Install the SATA drivers and you can then put the drive back into normal operation instead of compatibility mode.
This is also the reason why your other hard disk with Windows can see the SATA disk and optical drive... it probably has the SATA drivers installed.
mgbrake, thanks, below is the info I got from my nephew who built it. I don't have the PC here as by all accounts I just need teh drivers on floppy.
rulds2008- I'm on driver guide at the momnet but it's on about flsahing the BIOS which is not what my brother or I have done.
INFO:
When you install a fresh copy of windows on a machine with a SATA drive, if it's
an oldish motherboard (which his is) the windows setup doesn't see the SATA
drive. To make it see the drive, you have to hit F6 and load some additional
drivers. The only way you can do that is to have them on a floppy disk. It's the
only medium you can use to do it.
To make things worse, some compaines
sent out the floppy disks with the motherboards, but some didn't. I'm not sure
about Aidan's but he reckons he doesn't have a floppy. Anyway, the ones that
didn't usually have a utility on the driver CD (the one you sent me) that allowed
you to make the floppy yourself on another machine.
I've had a look
thorugh this CD and I can't find a utility anywhere that lets you do this, so it
sounds to me like there was a floppy disk sent with the motherboard that he
hasn't got. Sometimes this can be remedied by finding the right drivers online,
but so far I've had no luck at all. The company who make or made his motherboard
( XFX KT400-ALH by the way!) don't acknowledge it anymore, and there's nothing
comes up in google that's worthwhile.
I'm going to have a sift through
our floppys and see if I can find one
Finally my brother has tried the Flash bios driver from 'driverguide' I
sent on floppy, but he gets an error backing up the current BIOS and
trying to flashh install the new one (see picture).
Any advice on this? Thanks
So, no onboard SATA, and you are trying to load the drivers for a SATA card? SATAless motherboards require an IDE drive or disc or CD to boot first...
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