Installing WinXP on a S-ATA disk

I've been trying all day to install Windows XP on my new yesterday-bought Western Digital Raptor 74 GB 10.000 rpm S-ATA.

I've got a Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard, and plugged my hdd in the SATA-1 port on the motherboard. It has a S-ATA cable for power too.

My BIOS sees my harddisk (it notes a 'CH1 74 GB HDD' somewhere), if I boot with my old hdd with Windows installed, I can read and write from the new S-ATA disk.

But the only point where I get stuck, is at the Windows installation. I tried installing it (I leave all other hdd's out, when installing, so only my new one is in) but it didnt see any disk. I got my motherboard-cd-rom, and took the drivers off it, put it on a floppy and used the pre-hit-F6 way to install the drivers. Didn't work. I took drivers from the ASUS site, put them on floppy, but didn't work either.

Drivers from the site I tried (link: http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=K8V Deluxe&SLanguage=en-us#
then hit 'Drivers':

Code:

 Promise FastTrak 378 RAID Driver V1.00.1.37 for Windows 98SE/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003
-nt4 -Windows NT4 miniport driver 1.00.1.37.
-win2000 -Windows 2000 miniport driver 1.00.1.37 WHQL.
-98-me -Windows 98-ME miniport driver 1.00.1.37.
-winxp -Windows XP miniport driver 1.00.1.37 WHQL.
-win2003 -Windows 2003 miniport driver 1.00.1.37 WHQL.
-MakeDisk -Make Promise RAID driver floppy for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003.

I tried the MakeDisk from this one (above).

Code:

 Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 (ATA Mode)

I'm totally out of idea's... any1 ?

Oh, and I've got my hdd already partitioned, NTFS, Primary Partition. Only 1 partition.

 

From: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_20958442.html

I finally found it !! Really, after trying about 12 hours (yes, without a single pause...) I finally found it..

Glad to have solved it I hope it helps much other ppl too, because it seems many many ppl have this or these problems.

This topic can be locked already, I just hope you don't remove it, because the more this solution spreads, the more happy ppl