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Installing SATA HD

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Davmx

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Is it simple as installing ATA HD? Like just pop in the Window XP cd and everything will be the same as installing the ATA HD. Or is there a different method? :confused:

I was planning on getting IC7 - Max 3
 
You'll need to hit F6 and load the SATA drivers from the floppy, if it's going to be your boot drive.
 
do OEM harddrives from neweggs comes with the SATA drives on a floppy? ( Western Digital )
 
The sata drivers you need come with the motherboard or sata controller card, not the harddrive.

You can download those drivers from the motherboards website
 
My Intel Motherboard didn't need any SATA Drivers to install Windows. Just depends on the SATA Controller chipset.
 
Originally posted by Mr_Evil
My Intel Motherboard didn't need any SATA Drivers to install Windows. Just depends on the SATA Controller chipset.
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Exactly.

Case in point: My ASUS P4C800E Deluxe includes *two* chipsets that control the SATA ports: One from Intel itself (which *does* require drivers for OSes up to Windows 2000, but *not* for XP, which natively supports SATA) and one from Promise (drivers included on the CD for all OSes in both standard and RAID modes). You can *completely* shut off the Promise onboard controller and still use SATA devices (and SATA RAID) using the Intel chipset and drivers as needed; put the Promise in IDE mode (for a single drive) and use one or two SATA drives (again using the Intel controller for SATA or SATA RAID) or throw the Promise into RAID mode for two PATA drives and two or four SATA drives for multi-RAID (using *just* the Promise controller).

That isn't even all the possible options (with ICH5R and another onboard controller solution such as Promise, the possibilities are legion).
 
Originally posted by PGHammer
Exactly.

Case in point: My ASUS P4C800E Deluxe includes *two* chipsets that control the SATA ports: One from Intel itself (which *does* require drivers for OSes up to Windows 2000, but *not* for XP, which natively supports SATA) and one from Promise (drivers included on the CD for all OSes in both standard and RAID modes). You can *completely* shut off the Promise onboard controller and still use SATA devices (and SATA RAID) using the Intel chipset and drivers as needed; put the Promise in IDE mode (for a single drive) and use one or two SATA drives (again using the Intel controller for SATA or SATA RAID) or throw the Promise into RAID mode for two PATA drives and two or four SATA drives for multi-RAID (using *just* the Promise controller).

That isn't even all the possible options (with ICH5R and another onboard controller solution such as Promise, the possibilities are legion).
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Just as a FYI, which drivers perform better for a sata raid configuration, with no IDE raid (just a single IDE device)?
 
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