HD problem

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DeluzioNFX

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im trying to reformat the HD on my other computer ( Windows XP ) . However the HD is recognized as RAID and windows setup doesnt recognize it. i dont have the option in BIOS to change to IDE or anything.

My motherboard is a P5RD1-VM. I've checked for the raid drivers and put them on floppy but i have no luck either with that method.

I was wondering if it was possible to connect it to my main computer via SATA and reformat and do a fresh install of windows then connect it to my other PC, would it work?

thanks in advance
 
Probably not, especially with Windows XP. It really depends on how similar the two systems are... for instance if they both have an intel chipset then it's more likely to work.

That Asus board uses the ALi chipset which probably explains why Windows isn't recognizing your hard drives out of the box. You'll need to put the SATA drivers on a floppy diskette and load them from the installer by using the F6 key when prompted during Windows XP's setup routine.

The entire driver package for that chipset can be found here:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html

It's the first download listed.
 
this is a .exe file though, they are not the floppy drivers. The floppy drivers contained a .sys file, .inf and cat file
 
You can extract that EXE file by using WinRAR, it's just a self extracting installer.

Problem is looking at the SATA driver folder in the installer package it has 4 RAID/SATA controllers listed - M5281, M5287, M5288, and M5299... each with different drivers.

I've spent the last few minutes researching this board and it seems to be quite a rare beast when it comes to installing XP on it. It seems you HAVE to have the F6 (floppy) drivers for a Windows XP install because the chipset doesn't actually act as a standard SATA controller - it absolutely requires the SATA/RAID drivers to be used.
 
I was doing alot of research on this and it seem alot of people had the same problem and i had read somewhere that it was the drivers which had the m5287.sys . and i had found those files previously but it didn't work
 
After further research it's the 5287 driver you want. Here, I put the driver floppy files in a seperate zip file for you:

http://www.bbpix.com/files/1/M5287.zip

Extract the contents of that zip file to a floppy diskette and use it during the Windows XP setup when it asks you to 'Press F6 to load additional drivers...' (at the bottom of the screen).

[EDIT: You should have the i386 folder along with the OEMSETUP.TXT on the floppy disk, but if that doesn't work you can try just putting the contents of the i386 folder directly on the floppy instead. The AMD64 folder doesn't apply here and you shouldn't need it.
 
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