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Sata newbie unable to install Sata drive

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  • thor
    thor Posts: 5,504 Forumite
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    I have downloaded the drivers from poppy's post(driverscollection.com) and have got 3 sets : intel, silicon and via. I have no idea which ones to go for so I installed the .inf file from each. None appear to have worked.
    What should I do with these files? Have I gone wrong somewhere?
  • davb
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    If you look in Device Manager, are there any unknown devices - if so, try selecting update driver against that.
    I would think it's the Silicon Image one, but not sure.

    You may also need to enable SATA in the BIOS, and set the mode to non RAID.
  • poppy10_2
    poppy10_2 Posts: 6,588 Forumite
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    davb wrote: »
    You may also need to enable SATA in the BIOS, and set the mode to non RAID.
    This

    Also make sure you are fullyupdated on Windows Update
    poppy10
  • thor
    thor Posts: 5,504 Forumite
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    The onchip serial ATA mode has been set to the IDE option(the only other option being RAID) and the onchip serial ATA is 'Enhanced' mode(I have tried all the other combination to no avail).
    With these settings the Bios can see the burner on IDE-3 as master.
    My XP version is only sp1 though and I am starting to think that this is where it is going wrong.
    Therefore I used nlite to create a slipstream Xp sp3 disc with the intel sata driver incorporated. Now I need to know will I be able to udpate my XP to sp3 using this without having to re-install everything? or even better just add the sata drivers off the slipstreamed disc?
    I find it puzzling how you cannot just install these drivers as normal, i.e. running the install of the .inf files or can this only be done with sp2 or higher?
  • esuhl
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    thor wrote: »
    The onchip serial ATA mode has been set to the IDE option(the only other option being RAID) and the onchip serial ATA is 'Enhanced' mode(I have tried all the other combination to no avail).
    With these settings the Bios can see the burner on IDE-3 as master.

    The IDE option should mean that the BIOS presents the SATA drive to Windows using IDE emulation. I'm not sure if you can change these settings once Windows is installed, however - in some cases I don't think Windows sees the changes you have made in the BIOS without re-installing from scratch.
    thor wrote: »
    My XP version is only sp1 though and I am starting to think that this is where it is going wrong.
    Therefore I used nlite to create a slipstream Xp sp3 disc with the intel sata driver incorporated. Now I need to know will I be able to udpate my XP to sp3 using this without having to re-install everything? or even better just add the sata drivers off the slipstreamed disc?

    The XP installation CD you created with nLite is really just to install a new OS from scratch (i.e. deleting your existing installation first, then reinstalling Windows and other applications) - sorry if I didn't make that clear in my previous post.

    If you want to upgrade your existing installation to SP3 (definitely a good idea if you don't want to reinstall Windows), you should be able to do this via Windows Update. If not (for whatever reason), here's a link to a page on the MS website, "How to obtain the latest Windows XP service pack".

    Once you have upgraded to SP3, you might be able to install the SATA drivers from the nLite CD by extracting the file \\I386\driver.cab, then going into the Device Manager or Add/Remove Hardware wizard and getting it to scan the directory containing the extracted files.
    thor wrote: »
    I find it puzzling how you cannot just install these drivers as normal, i.e. running the install of the .inf files or can this only be done with sp2 or higher?

    I wonder if your CMOS/BIOS setting are hiding the drive from Windows... It might be a good idea to note all of the settings you have relating to IDE, ATA, SATA, PATA, RAID and AHCI and doing a quick web search to see if you have them set appropriately. Once you have done that and tried installing the driver again, if you still can't see the drive in Windows, you may need to reinstall the OS... I'm not 100% sure, though...

    Hope this helps (a little bit)...
  • esuhl
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    Just seen this Wikipedia entry, which might be worth a quick read. It briefly explains AHCI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface
  • thor
    thor Posts: 5,504 Forumite
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    thanks esuhl. Plenty of reading material for me to tuck into.
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