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[Demon]

Hey all,

I'm trying to install a SATA drive into my new machine. It has an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe Mobo. I can't seem to find the driver for the SATA drive. This seems to be a little different than installing a classic drive...

If you know anything about doing this, please help!

Matt
turbo916@optonline.net

 

[77tech9]

The drive prob dont have a driver, but i'm sure the motherboard does to enable SATA.

Did you enable SATA in the BIOS?
make sure you hooked the SATA power to it also.

 

[QuickWrench]

Grab the latest drivers/updates from here.

Windows [XP/2000] doesn't require any special drivers to operate SATA drives. The drive is most likely disabled or improperly configured in the BIOS, unless you just have the cabling done wrong...which is tough to believe, since it's just a one-wire plug-in.

Good luck.

 

[Demon]

Cable is installed correctly, I have the latest BIOS, and it's enabled. Yet when I copied my old hard drive to the new one, a lot of programs didn't work. Scanner "couldn't communicate with scanning software," internet had glitches (IE has encountered an error and needs to close), and a host of other issues. I eventually kept my old hard drive and installed the new SATA as a storage device, kind of a waste of such a nice piece of hardware. Unless, of course, I missed something (like disconnecting and reformatting the old drive, which I am very reluctant to do...)

Thanks guys.

 

[QuickWrench]

What did you use to duplicate the drive from IDE to SATA? Ghost 2003 should work fine for the imaging. Let me know if you need it; it's email-able.

When you re-installed your old [IDE] drive as the bootable primary, do the problems you mentioned go away? What OS are you using?

 

[Demon]

I used MaxBlast 3 (came with the Maxtor drive). Problems galore.

Using Windows XP.

When I reinstalled the old drive as the boot drive, all of the problems went away.

Quick - You seem to know what you're doing with this stuff. Any chance we could do the email thing until I get this right?

 

[QuickWrench]

Quickwrench@Runbox.com