Samsung Serial ATA Hard Drive

[Lazy_Moron]

Does anyone have a Samsung Hard Drive that uses a Serial ATA connection? If so, did you have to install a driver when you installed it? The model number of my hard drive is SP1614C. The reason I am asking this is because I just did a recent format of my computer, and when I was installing all the drivers again, I didnt install a Hard Drive driver and can't find any drivers for it anywhere, including there website, and I know most Serial ATA hard drives require a driver.

[djnes]

Your leaving out a lot of important data to answer this question. Is your Samsung drive the bootable system drive? If so, and you have an AMD board, you probably have to install a driver during the XP setup. If your using an Intel chipset board, or it's not the system drive, XP should see it without any drivers.

Also, if it's a new drive, it will need to be formatted and/or partitioned in Disk Management before it's visible in My Computer. No one on this forum should have to be told this, but sadly, some people still haven't figured this part out.

[Lazy_Moron]

Ok sry, I left out that information. Yes I am using it with a Pentium 4 Processor with a 915G chipset, and I believe it is the bootable system drive, since I only use one hard drive. The motherboard is by Asus but dont know what model number it is since it came with my HP computer. And yes it is visible in My Computer.

[djnes]

If it's visible in My Computer and useable....what's the problem? Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to be working fine.

[Lazy_Moron]

Nothing, It was just weird that I didnt need a driver, since everywhere I read people are forgetting to install drivers for there serial ATA hard drive.

[hulksterjoe]

For raid you'd need to add the driver, or amd

[djnes]

Nothing, It was just weird that I didnt need a driver, since everywhere I read people are forgetting to install drivers for there serial ATA hard drive.

You need to read a little more and find out when they needed the driver. It always clearly states they need the driver during the XP install process, where they complain that XP isn't recognizing the drive. You obviously didn't have that problem, because your OS installed fine.

[adi]

And its not the driver for the hard drive, its the driver for the SATA controller.