Installing WinXP on a S-ATA disk

[Lassie]

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':

 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).

 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.

 

[Lassie]

Comment from leonard430
Date: 04/20/2004 08:05PM PDT
Author Comment

WOohOo!! Fixed!

The key was to use the correct version of SATA Driver when F6 is selected. Correct version is VIA VT6420 SATA 2.20

k...time to document everything I did so others can follow quickly:

1. Download VIARAID220d.zip (VIA VT6420 SATA 2.20 file) from Asus website (see first post for link). Unzip and open folder VIARAID/DriverDisk. Run MakeDisk.exe.
2. Ensure SATA Cable is connected to SATA1, not PRI_SATA
3. BIOS Setup
a. Onboard Devices Configuration
i) OnBoard SATA BOOTROM - Enabled
ii) OnBoard Promise Controller - Disabled
b. Boot Device Priority (CD, Floopy, HDD)
4. Used Slipstreamed Windows XP Disk in order to have Service Pack 1 on install. See above post.
5. Push F6 on initial screen and insert disk from step 1.

Easy, if you can find the file. I must have finally gotten lucky, because I can't even find the download page anymore for K8VSE Deluxe board on ASUS using their search engine.

Thanks to all for their help.

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