Adding a SATA drive for data (1 Viewer)

[Keith Paynter]

I've done some searching on the forum about using SATA drives, and I'm still a bit stumped. If you are using a RAID device, you need to install the driver off the motherboard during the installation of Windows XP. How can you do this after XP is installed?

I am (hopefully going to be) using a 250GB SATA drive for all video rendering, but since the SATA driver was never installed during the XP setup, how do I do it now?

 

[Mike Fassler]

just install the driver after you install the drive. the chipset should detect a sata drive when you post at bootup,windows should prompt you for a driver then.

 

[Keith Paynter]

Tried to install, Windows will not load the device driver. Got the yellow alert on the Devioce Manager hardware list.


I updated the BIOS, installed the most current drivers from the Albatron website. No luck. I may have to invest in a RAID SATA PCI card...

 

[ChristopherDAC]

Huh. I just installed the SATA driver on my SOYO motherboard, and plugged in the drive, and it worked; I get the impression that it's only necessary to install the driver at the time of OS installation if you're going to be installing onto a SATA drive.

 

[Scott L]

Just use Windows XP Service Pack 2. It has the SATA drivers pre-installed. I installed XP just fine onto an sata drive three days ago.

If you only have the original XP install CD you can download the SP2 install file (~266mb) and slipstream it into your XP CD, then make a new install CD-R which will install XP SP2 right off the bat.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

 

[SethH]

How many drives are you using? The original post sounds like you're using one -- in which case RAID is irrelevent

 

[Keith Paynter]

I had 2 IDE drives - the second one packed it in after 2-1/2 years 24/7. The SATA drive will replace the one that has passed on.

I had a PCI IDE card, so I could replace it with a combo serial ATA/IDE ATA one.