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Help needed - SATA drives in WinXP setup
Hi guys.
For some reason Windows XP Pro won't detect my SATA drive during a clean install on a new computer. I get to the bit at the start where it says "to install Windows now press Enter" but then it tells me that I have no hard disks on my system. Is there anyone who has done this and what do you do? I'm using a WD Raptor with the Asus A8V mobo if that's any help. |
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You should have a SATA driver on CD or floppy that came with the drive, you need to install that (I think) when it asks you to specify the storage devices.
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Sorted now.
I had a proper read through of the manual that came with the motherboard and although it said to make a floppy for the VIA RAID, it worked fine with just the one disk. :) The computer is FAST though, I can't get over the difference between this and my old Athlon XP 3200 with Maxtor 200GB IDE drive. Actually getting the driver onto a floppy was a nightmare though, I had to boot up my 3200, then remote desktop into the 1800 to create the floppy disk because that's the only one with a floppy drive anymore. Then I had to swap monitors over to the FX53, connect the floppy drive (oh the shame! :D) and install it as theblueraja said. It didn't accept the WinXP version though so I used the Win2000 drivers and it seems fine, the disk could have been corrupted though (re: not accepting XP drivers) because the only one I could find was a 10 year old OS/2 install disk. :disturbd: Seems to be working though, but I can't quite get over the fact that the disk seems to format in 5 seconds or less? I know these drives are fast as hell but is this right? :erm: |
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Quickformat probably.
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The majority of SATA drives perform the same as their IDE versions but the Raptor 74GB is the fastest one I know of, apart from SCSI. I decided against RAID 0 because of the poor write performance. |
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No, I had the money anyway (inheritance, if you must know :( ) but I'm selling my old XP3200 machine to pay for my new Radeon, when it's out that is...
I thought I might as well get a machine that will last me a couple of years instead of being disappointed by bad performance in games as I am at the moment, and I do love my games. :D After installing MOHSH in roughly half the time of my 3200, I think I've made a good investment, bring on Doom! :p: |
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Hehe, it's ok.
I'm glad I don't have a car to waste money on, I'd much rather spend it on computer hardware. :D I'm in a little bit of shock at the moment though, I just ran 3DMark2001 on my non-overclocked 9800Pro and got a score of 21864 :eek: Worth the upgrade? I think so, my Athlon32 3200+ used to get 14000 on a good day. :D I can't wait for the X800XT now. :erm: |
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And while I'm pimping my box, I might as well post a pic of those extremely cool DDR modules with the LEDs on top:
http://www.richardm.co.uk/images/for...53/RAM_LED.jpg |
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Geeeeeeeeeeeeeek
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nice to see a Lian-Li put to good use ;)
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