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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Setup and Deployment / June 2008Setting up a SATA Drive
I want to install Windows XP Pro, it's a brand new PC, and I want to get this up and running ASAP, nothing fancy. I can always go back and configure the drive and RAID or whatever. What do I have to do to get a simple SATA drive install? What do I have to do during the intial installation of the OS? I'm using a brand new operating system bought 2 years ago from a PC store. I paid about $150 bucks for Windows XP Pro. Thanks, attilathehun1  Signatureattilathehun1 Connect the new SATA drive to the SATA 1 port, boot the computer, go into the BIOS and verify the drive was recognized, change the boot order to boot from your CD/DVD drive first, insert the XP CD into the drive, save the BIOS settings and reboot, . You'll be given an option to press any key to boot from the CD, press Enter (or any key), you'll boot from the XP CD and it will then ask about where to install, format drive, etc. > I want to install Windows XP Pro, it's a brand new PC, and I want to get > this up and running ASAP, nothing fancy. I can always go back and [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I paid about $150 bucks for Windows XP Pro. > Thanks, attilathehun1 You mean hook it up to the one of the yellow SATA110 connectors, there are 3 of them, and there is one purple GSATA110/1 connector. The three yellow connectors are called SATA110/1/2/3/4/5 in the motherboard manual. So from what I get here, your saying hook the yellow cable up to one of the yellow connectors and don't hook anything up to the purple connector? I'll wait for your response. Thanks, attilathehun1 Signatureattilathehun1 > Connect the new SATA drive to the SATA 1 port, boot the computer, go into > the BIOS and verify the drive was recognized, change the boot order to boot [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I paid about $150 bucks for Windows XP Pro. > > Thanks, attilathehun1 You have to read the mobo manual, some require the boot sata drive to be connected to a specific connector. Then there maybe bios settings that require editing. Once thats done, you follow the procedure that was posted in your other thread > You mean hook it up to the one of the yellow SATA110 connectors, there are > 3 [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> > I paid about $150 bucks for Windows XP Pro. >> > Thanks, attilathehun1 Now how on earth am I supposed to know anything about different color connectors? Read the motherboard owner's manual. > You mean hook it up to the one of the yellow SATA110 connectors, there are > 3 [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> > I paid about $150 bucks for Windows XP Pro. >> > Thanks, attilathehun1 From my experience (not vast) in trying to install XP on a SATA drive, XP having been written before SATA was invented, does not recognise SATA disk without special drivers, and MS have not bothered to add these to the CDs. Early in the XP setup it will ask 'press F6 if you need to load SATA/RAID drivers'. If you do not press F6 and/or do not have a floppy disk with such drivers on it the Setup will fail at a point where it will tell your HD is corrupted. If you have an OS already using SATA on the system you might find the drivers in there. In my case, with Intel the files were called things like iastor.sys as part of Intel Matrix Storage and I could copy them from the Vista install. (I can supply the full list if you want it.) If you have no floppy drive, I think you have a problem. (I got round that by connecting an old floppy drive to the motherboard. There may be other ways round it.) Hope that helps. Derek > Connect the new SATA drive to the SATA 1 port, boot the computer, go into > the BIOS and verify the drive was recognized, change the boot order to [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> I paid about $150 bucks for Windows XP Pro. >> Thanks, attilathehun1 |
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