Major Problem with SATA Card and Drive

GrandslammerBD · 07-02-2009, 10:36 PM

I have installed a Western Digital 1TB SATA Hard Drive. My motherboard only supports ATA as standard so I went out and purchased the Rosewill RC209 SATA Card so I can have the capability to run the SATA drive. The problem is the hard drive isnt being detected and I think it has to do with the SATA Card. The hard drive isnt detected by the BIOS, or anything else. I have tried running the Windows XP installation but it says there is no volume present. I have tried changing the boot sequence in the BIOS without success. I think part of the problem is I cant install drivers for the SATA card because I cant run floppy drives on my system. I want to be able to install an OS on the 1TB Sata drive and remove my old IDE drive. The problem is once I remove my old IDE drive I no longer can boot the system. It just freezes up. Im really stuck. HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!

justbigbs · 07-04-2009, 11:35 AM

You will not see the Bios of your Rosewill SATA controller within your mb bios, your not suppose to. The Rosewill SATA controller has its own BIOS, that Bios boots after your mb POST AND BOOTS then detects hard ware controllers/bios. make sure you have boot (working windows hard drive) device set properly. If you system cant read hd off your SATA controller card, I don't suggest you install/or use it to boot windows off your sata controller.

Make sure you have a working bootable windows working with your motherboard. Attached all hd devices you want to the Rosewill SATA controller. Boot to windows. Install your ROSEWILL SATA CONTROLLER DEVICE DRIVERS, this is a must, otherwise anything you connect to that card WILL NOT BE READ BY WINDOWS. As you said, the drivers are located on a floppy disk? (cant run floppy), you can do two things.

1. (easier method) Download the drivers for your Rosewill controller in Rosewill website remember the series/mod #, if its not located in Rosewill website for what ever reason, google it

2. (hard method) find someone/some place still has a floppy drive connected and working, bring your own flash drive, copy files from floppy to flash drive.

install the drivers.

good luck

07-02-2009, 10:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
GrandslammerBD Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 189 OS: Windows XP	Major Problem with SATA Card and Drive I have installed a Western Digital 1TB SATA Hard Drive. My motherboard only supports ATA as standard so I went out and purchased the Rosewill RC209 SATA Card so I can have the capability to run the SATA drive. The problem is the hard drive isnt being detected and I think it has to do with the SATA Card. The hard drive isnt detected by the BIOS, or anything else. I have tried running the Windows XP installation but it says there is no volume present. I have tried changing the boot sequence in the BIOS without success. I think part of the problem is I cant install drivers for the SATA card because I cant run floppy drives on my system. I want to be able to install an OS on the 1TB Sata drive and remove my old IDE drive. The problem is once I remove my old IDE drive I no longer can boot the system. It just freezes up. Im really stuck. HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!

07-04-2009, 11:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
justbigbs Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 19 OS: Windows XP Pro SP3	Re: Major Problem with SATA Card and Drive You will not see the Bios of your Rosewill SATA controller within your mb bios, your not suppose to. The Rosewill SATA controller has its own BIOS, that Bios boots after your mb POST AND BOOTS then detects hard ware controllers/bios. make sure you have boot (working windows hard drive) device set properly. If you system cant read hd off your SATA controller card, I don't suggest you install/or use it to boot windows off your sata controller. Make sure you have a working bootable windows working with your motherboard. Attached all hd devices you want to the Rosewill SATA controller. Boot to windows. Install your ROSEWILL SATA CONTROLLER DEVICE DRIVERS, this is a must, otherwise anything you connect to that card WILL NOT BE READ BY WINDOWS. As you said, the drivers are located on a floppy disk? (cant run floppy), you can do two things. 1. (easier method) Download the drivers for your Rosewill controller in Rosewill website remember the series/mod #, if its not located in Rosewill website for what ever reason, google it 2. (hard method) find someone/some place still has a floppy drive connected and working, bring your own flash drive, copy files from floppy to flash drive. install the drivers. good luck