New PC... Refuses to Windows XP on SATA
I just ordered this setup:
Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard
Athlon64 3200+
1GB DDR 400 (2x512)
80GB SATA
400W Powersupply
Previously had that was added:
ATI Radeon 9800PRO All-in-wonder
DVD+/-RW Drive
WD JB250GB (P)ATA
In the bios, it shows the SATA drive, but using the Windows XP Pro CD, it will not recognize the SATA drive. Temp solution: borrow a friends IDE drive (seeing as how my 250GB has all my backup on it, and don't want to reformat it), and install Windows XP on the IDE. Even in Windows, no "unknown devices" and still only shows the 2 IDEs (my friend's 60GB, and my 250GB)... Any ideas?
Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard
Athlon64 3200+
1GB DDR 400 (2x512)
80GB SATA
400W Powersupply
Previously had that was added:
ATI Radeon 9800PRO All-in-wonder
DVD+/-RW Drive
WD JB250GB (P)ATA
In the bios, it shows the SATA drive, but using the Windows XP Pro CD, it will not recognize the SATA drive. Temp solution: borrow a friends IDE drive (seeing as how my 250GB has all my backup on it, and don't want to reformat it), and install Windows XP on the IDE. Even in Windows, no "unknown devices" and still only shows the 2 IDEs (my friend's 60GB, and my 250GB)... Any ideas?
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I'm using this thread because my problem is related to this problem. I could install the XP on my new PC. But unfortunatelly, I'm having a problem while it's booting. The error message it shows is the following:
"Hardware initiate failed, please check device!!!
The bios does not be installed. Pres <g> to continue"
It has a mobo Asus K8V-X with a HDD SATA Samsung HD080HJ. Before I installed the Windows XP, of course, the BIOS didn't recognize it. But, as you already know, I installed it as a SCSI or RAID disk with F6 utility at the XP Setup and it worked just fine.
Well, the strange thing is, that when I turn it on, it shows this message. After that, I restart it with Ctrl-Alt-Del and magically it recognize the disk...
What could be wrong?
I tried a lot of things and searched around the web but I coundn't find a clear answer.
Hope you help me.
Thanx in advance.
Best regards,
Pablo
Some where in your BIOS is a setting in Enable/Disable SATA Raid for both the VIA & Promise raid controllers
With a my old Abit KV7 (KT600 / 8237) In the BIOS I had to ENABLE the SATA RAID setting in order to use the SATA ports at all even in a non Raid configuration. (Disable Raid, Disabled the VIA SATA Ports completely)
Sold the board to a friend, it's currently running a Raptor and a Seagate SATA drives. Didn't need drivers to install to SATA drives.
With my Abit AV8 (K8T800 Pro / 8237) In the BIOS I Had to DISABLE the SATA Raid setting in order to use the SATA ports individually. In order to use SATA Raid I had to Enable the Raid Setting (VIA SATA ports always on)
VIA Sata/Raid Drivers
Windows XP will recognize the SATA drive now that i enabled RAID mode in the BIOS, but only after boot up. I have downloaded 2 different drivers from ASUS.com and neither of them will allow the windows installation program to install on the SATA. I guess Windows XP just isn't designed to be installed on a SATA... *sigh*
Are you Using the Promise or the VIA Sata Ports?
You need a Floppy Drive! (It's stupid but it's necessary - you have to buy/borrow one)
You need to hit "F6" when installing (almost immediately) and insert a floppy drive with the necessary drivers (when prompted). The VIA drivers are below. Unzip em and put them on a floppy. The TXTSetup.OEM file sas to be in the root diretory. Install both the PIDE and the Raid Drivers. The VIA SATA ports are here
Thanks again!
Well, about the problem I was having with my new PC (an error message saying the Bios was not installed), it was due the jumpers were not properly set. The DVD Writer was set as Master and the disk as CS (Cable Select) and the only thing I did was to change the jumper from the DVD to the Disk and put it as it was shown in the disk cover.
I wasn't able to open the PC because of the warranty. But after my claim by phone, they let me open it.
Hope this would help someone in the future.
Thanx a lot.
Required tools: SYSPREP (I have v 2 dated around 8/29/02, tried to attach but it's just over 1 meg), Windows XP CD, MaxBlast 4 (or something to copy partitions - Seagate has a 10 meg download of their tools that work with Maxtor, Seagate, probably WD), A8V motherboard CD, ATA drive for initial install.
BIOS settings (for regular SATA drive use, no RAID)
OnChip SATA Bootrom: Enabled
OnBoard Promise Controller: Disabled
I booted to the XP install disk and installed Windows on ATA drive.
Then Created a "utility" directory on C drive
Put the required VIA drivers in a directory in "RAID-Drivers) in "utility"
viaraid.cat 11/7/2003
VIASRAID.INF 10/30/2003
VIARAID.SYS 10/30/2003
Put SYSPREP files in another subdirectory (called Sysprep)
(I tried all this without using SYSPREP, copying the Windows installation
to the SATA drive, but it never got beyond the initial blue screen with
XP logo. I've seen this before - Windows does not like being moved from
one hardware setup to another, although some have had luck doing this
without SYSPREP, on my installation, it didn't work)
Upgrade to SP2 (I did it on the ATA drive)
Windows finds new hardware somewhere in this process, browse to the
"C:\utility\RAID-Dreivers" directory
When things are installed and working, you shoud be able to "see" the SATA drives with "Manage" (right click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management)
I created a 40 Gbyte partition on the SATA drive (I make small Boot partitions, and large data partitions - easier to backup and manage)
I then Ran SYSPREP (the EXE file)
Sysprep will ask what you want to do.
Choose "Factory" and you don't need to generate new security identifiers
System will shut down after it prepares itself to be moved
Reboot with MAXBLAST CD (or something that will allow partition copying).
I used Maxblast 4 for this purpose.
Dig around for the "Partition copy" utility feature and copy the partition from the ATA drive to the SATA drive partition you created.
When done, shut down.
Remove the ATA drive
Startup system and DEL to enter BIOS setting to assure that SATA drive is to be used as first boot device.
When things boot, voila, it boots on the SATA drive, with a message "Please wait" in small print.
DON'T PANIC (boldly printed on every copy of hitchhiker's guide)
Soon windows will show the sysprep window and ask you what to do.
Hit the "RESEAL" button (don't create new security identifiers, but it will complain if you forget to check the "don't" box)
System shuts down (again, no reason for concern)
Startup again, more "Please wait" then you're asked for the same Disk Key
you used to install the ATA version above. Put it in.
Wait some additional time.
Then login, and you're done.
And maybe you learned the secret or two about "Sysprep" or at least that it serves a purpose when copying Windows installations from drive to drive.
Jeff
PS I haven't posted here prior to this, so I apologize if this isn't very exciting or interesting, or even useful.
Oh, one final thing: I also have a Gigabyte motherboard with SATA support, and Windows XP had no trouble at all finding and installing to the SATA drive. What is probably needed is a loader added to the SATA drive that fixes the disk table info in the BIOS data area so that XP can recognize the SATA drives during initial installation, since it works fine with the Gigabyte Motherboard. But the ASUS Socket 939 board is now working fine. Had I put in a floppy drive, I could have simplified the installation, but I have removable ATA bays on this system, so it wasn't that hard to deal with ATA first, and partition copy to the SATA (after Sysprep).
I too am having similar problems we are trying to install winxp
mobo epox gforce6100N with wd sata 160g 7200
we have gone through every scenario, th f6 thingy, windows starts up and the bios does recognize the hd but it gets so far and bsod. Says unmountable_boot_device . Any help with this would be awesome!!!!