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ian_737 · 02-20-2008, 03:21 PM

Hey everyone - I've jst bought a PC that didnt have a hard drive, I had two so I thought I could use them on the new PC.

When I opened it up I noticed that the new PC has SATA cables and not the conventional (old) way of connecting my HD (lots of pins).

So... I bought a converter card.... plugged it in, hooked up my sata cable and my other cable... formatted my hard drives on another PC for a fresh install and away I went.

Now, I turned on my new computer and in the loading section I noticed that the two HDs were recognised, master and slave so all was okay. I changed my BIOS to boot from CD so that I could boot from my winXP startup disk and it all starts normally.... up until this point.....

I go to install windows and I get to the blue screen section where it asks which hard drive do I want to install windows on... here, there are 4 subheadings but it doesnt see my two hard drives, therefore I cant install windows as the computer now thinks it doesnt have any hard drives.

I've tried messing with the master/slave sleeves but got no luck, I also booted my motherboard CD and made a RAID diskette for F6 installation but none of this has worked.

Anyone have any clues?

I'm trying to install windows Home XP on a ASROCK AM1NF6G-VSTA motherboard

The IDE (i think thats what you call the old style hard drives!!) to SATA converter is labeled as 2 Port serial ATA PCI host card

Many thanks, I'd really appreciate some help here!!

02-20-2008, 03:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
ian_737 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2 OS: WINXP	SATA converter problems! Hey everyone - I've jst bought a PC that didnt have a hard drive, I had two so I thought I could use them on the new PC. When I opened it up I noticed that the new PC has SATA cables and not the conventional (old) way of connecting my HD (lots of pins). So... I bought a converter card.... plugged it in, hooked up my sata cable and my other cable... formatted my hard drives on another PC for a fresh install and away I went. Now, I turned on my new computer and in the loading section I noticed that the two HDs were recognised, master and slave so all was okay. I changed my BIOS to boot from CD so that I could boot from my winXP startup disk and it all starts normally.... up until this point..... I go to install windows and I get to the blue screen section where it asks which hard drive do I want to install windows on... here, there are 4 subheadings but it doesnt see my two hard drives, therefore I cant install windows as the computer now thinks it doesnt have any hard drives. I've tried messing with the master/slave sleeves but got no luck, I also booted my motherboard CD and made a RAID diskette for F6 installation but none of this has worked. Anyone have any clues? I'm trying to install windows Home XP on a ASROCK AM1NF6G-VSTA motherboard The IDE (i think thats what you call the old style hard drives!!) to SATA converter is labeled as 2 Port serial ATA PCI host card Many thanks, I'd really appreciate some help here!!