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Old 02-19-2007, 04:05 PM   #4 (permalink)
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next thing; I would remove the IDE drive from the mix; it just deepens the mud.

I would wipe the hard drive with a zero fill utility to start over again, before doing this; see if you can enter the bios, there is usually a plave in the bios where you can change the sata controller to treat the sata drive as an IDE drive until you get the OS loaded and the motheboard chip set drivers installed. I often see this option in the bios as IDE mode

the sata drive is not going to work correctly until the sata drivers for your motherboards onboard sata controller are installed. The drivers for the sata controller are normally included with the motherboard chipset package.

once the OS is installed on the drive its easy to then install the motherboard chipset drivers.


there is another way to do it; by placing the sata controller drivers on a floppy disk, then when you perform the OS install from the beginning you will see a prompt PRESS F6 TO INSTALL THIRD PARTY SCSI RAID DRIVERS

its at that time you press the F6 key and let it load the sata controller drivers from your floppy drive >>>>>

changing to IDE mode is easier for me = I am lazy
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