claydog99 Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Any tips or ideas I can try to get Winxp pro to recognize my SATA HD? Installed the drivers etc. Enabled it in bios. It starts the usual check list, runs through irq's etc. message to hit F4 to configure SCSI device and then shows the drive volume. This is where earlier I "ran" the config that now shows the JBOD choice in the BIOS. So anyway after showing the hd and volume and where you would normally see the first Winxp splash screen it pauses (black) for about 30 seconds then says,"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check both path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentaion about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."The board has 4 slots for S_ATA_SB (Controlled by nForce4 SLI)and 4 slots SATA II (Controlled by SII3114 drivers) Which I've loaded.In the bios I've loaded the drivers and have the boot choice of:1. Bootable Add-in Cards.2. SCSI-0 :01:40-0 siI JBODI have changed between the two and and the two different slots on the MB with no luck, same message as above. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My son awaits his new "Super Computer".Gigabyte K8N Ultra SLIAMD 64 3200Corsair 1 GB ramnVidia 6800 GT pci exp vidWD 120 GB SATAWinxp pro (trying to install) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JSKY Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Will any of this help?SATA controller driverYour Motherboard or SATA controller card requires a driver to work properly. If you did not get a Floppy Disk with the SATA driver included with your Motherboard you will have to make one. The SATA drivers can be located on the installation CD that came with your Motherboard or preferably, download the latest SATA controller drivers from the manufacturers site. Once you have located the drivers copy them to a formatted floppy disk. Make sure they are in the root directory i.e. not contained within any folders.BIOS settingsWhen you turn on the PC hit the Delete key when prompted and you will enter the BIOS (Basic Input Output System). Here you set the first boot device to be the CDROM drive, the option is usually found under the Advanced Options section but this depends on your BIOS and you may have to look around for it. Once you have done this save and exit.Installing the SATA controller driverOnce you have set the PC to boot from the CD make sure the XP CD is in the CD drive and start the installation as per usual. Within the first minute or so of the installation Windows will prompt you to press F6 to install RAID or SCSI drivers, do this. Windows will continue to install then ask you to locate the driver. now with the floppy disk created earlier in drive A: select the driver and hit Enter.With the SATA drivers installed you can now continue the Windows installation as usual.BIOS settings revisitedOnce Windows has finished installing you will need to make sure the PC is set to boot from the SATA drive. To do this make the first boot device SATA if the option is available. If not you have two options: HD0 - If there are no IDE HDs present, or SCSI if you do plan on running an IDE HD as a secondary device. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JSKY Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Or Try Here And see if this helps...Xp on SATA Drive Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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