I have a Dell Dimension 8400 that came with Windows XP Home edition. I have a SATA hard drive and no floppy drive. When I load windows XP Pro it doesnt have any default drivers for a SATA controller so it doenst think my pc has any hard drives on it and aborts the installation. I dont have a floppy drive that i can use to load the SATA dfrivers when it asks if you have any drivers ou want to load from floppy. Anyone have any ideas how I can do this?
2006-09-03 11:40:46 · 6 answers · asked by snare3011 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Is it just a SATA drive? Or is it a SATA on a RAID. Or is the hard drive connected to a PCI SATA interface card. Because I've had no problem loading XP on a SATA hard drive plugged into the motherboard board. If you have a PCI SATA card, it may well not detect that. If you are using a RAID then you may have to load a third party RAID driver. Don't ask me how to do so, I've never had that problem either. In three years of building PCs... I've never had that problem. A natively supported SATA drive will be detected as being on IDE channel such and such, in my case it was "3" right after all the other standard IDE connectors.
2006-09-03 11:46:44 · answer #1 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe there are drivers that you will have to get from Microsoft's web site for SATA. You'll have to make a floppy or CD of those drivers. During the install, Win XP should have directed you how to do this. Sometimes you have to re-install a few times before the drivers take. Get an external floppy, or install an internal one, it's not too hard and the internal drive is not expensive.
2006-09-03 14:17:51 · answer #2 · answered by ispatman53 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As reported above, you the two might desire to setting up the hdd utilising IDE mode, no longer AHCI, for this reason you do no longer want further drivers. in case you do not have a floppy tension, you could attempt to repeat the drivers to a USB flash tension (be sure that's FAT32, which it frequently might desire to be besides). Or borrow an exterior USB floppy tension someplace. yet another answer could be arising an XP setting up CD with lined drivers. throughout the time of the setup, top on the start, there's a message to press F6 to load the drivers. gain this, and in case then you definitely choose the perfect drivers, your hdd might desire to be acknowledged.
2016-11-06 08:52:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order for the SATA to work properly, it needs to be enabled in bios. Access your bios and checked its recognized and properly configured. If after doing so you cant get it to be recognized, install 3rd party drivers. Some motherboards such as Asrock don't recognize SATAS without the help of special drivers, regardless.
2006-09-03 15:07:39 · answer #4 · answered by Apollo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you try selecting the option when loading Xp Pro that says "Press F6 to install SCSI or RAID drivers" or somthing like that?
2006-09-03 11:44:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Identify which ATA/SATA Drivers work with your Chipset
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-015001.htm
2006-09-03 16:38:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋