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Help Installing Maxtor SATA Hard Drive

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VolFan325

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I just set up a new system with the following specs
Athlon 64 3200+
Abit KV8-MAX3 Mobo
1GB Corsair PC2700
ATI AIW 9600 Pro
Sony DVD+/-RW

I also bought a maxtor 160GB SATA hard drive. The problem is i could not get XP to install onto the hard drive. I added my old PATA maxtor 30 GB hard drive and installed XP onto it thinking it would be easier to get XP to recognize the SATA once i had it installed. I know that XP recognizes the hard drive because it is listed in the device manager but it doesnt recognize it as anything i can store stuff on. Im pretty sure its a driver problem, but im not sure what drivers i need to install where. Thanks for any help!!!
 
Yeah. I've used Maxblast3 to format it and even had it copy all of the windows files from my old hard to the new one....but everytime i try to boot from it, it restarts the computer. I have a disk of SATA drivers that came with my motherboard. But it doesnt have any sort of program that puts the files where they need to go and i dont know where to put them...i think thats the problem but im not sure
 
so the drivers for the sata controller are not installed then? check your device manager and see if you see your sata controller under SCSI and RAID controllers. if it's not there, then you've got to install the driver. installing the driver is not hard, but let's take things 1 step at a time. what do you see for in the device manager?
 
Install the SATA driver when you are prompted to press F6 to install additional SCSI drivers during the Windows install

also select SCSI or SATA in the BIOS boot order and or look for a BIOS option like Bus Manager and set it to SATA, possibly there would be a jumper on the mobo to enable the SATA controller

review the manual for jumpers and BIOS Options (also possibly installing to SATA)
 
I think its possible that i might have just semi-solved it. Since formatting it with maxblast 3 i had not checked on it in the device manager. When i did i looked at its properties, clicked on the volumes tab, and then clicked on the populate button at the bottom. magically there my drive was in the My Computer folder. This is a big step, but if possible id like to boot from it so i can use my old drive in an external enclosure solely as music storage that i can transfer from my comp to my laptop. I'm going to try copying everything to it again and booting from it tonight.....i will give a post as soon as this is done tomorrow to say whether it worked.....thanks for all the help that was offered!!!
 
oh.....i didnt even know or really think about that....which would probably explain why it didnt boot from it. but i reformatted it and did a fresh install(which wasnt a big deal cuz i hadnt put anything important on the drive yet).....and miraculously this time found the right driver....so everything has been fixed.....thanks for the advice!!
 
Glad you got it sorted out :D

and yeh for future reference there are some disk structures you cant access from inside the OS to copy: the registry, the pagefile, the Master File Table, the boot sector (containing the Master Boot Record) some of those can be accessed from a parallel OS install, (the registry for instance) and there are Clone Applications that can run inside the OS emulating a DOS environment to access all of them, but generally speaking you need that DOS (or nix equivalent) to get at the boot sector ;)
 
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