Windows will not recognize my SATA drive.

[ZionHalcyon]

I bought a Samsung OEM SATA 120 GB drive that I want to install WinXP on. I have tried making a driver disk which I have loaded during a CD install of WinXP, only for my drive not to be seen. I also have tried Seagate's drivemagic (I think that is what it is called) and formatted the drive, and still nada. I've tried dos and Fdisk, and that only sees 2 GB.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Xilikon]

I bought a Samsung OEM SATA 120 GB drive that I want to install WinXP on. I have tried making a driver disk which I have loaded during a CD install of WinXP, only for my drive not to be seen. I also have tried Seagate's drivemagic (I think that is what it is called) and formatted the drive, and still nada. I've tried dos and Fdisk, and that only sees 2 GB.

Anyone have any suggestions?

If you wanted to install XP, you should have a driver disk then on the starting part of the setup, hit F6 when prompted. This will install the needed drivers for the SATA controller.

 

[ZionHalcyon]

If you wanted to install XP, you should have a driver disk then on the starting part of the setup, hit F6 when prompted. This will install the needed drivers for the SATA controller.

I have tried making a driver disk which I have loaded during a CD install of WinXP

Been tried.

 

[Xilikon]

I read that but wanna make sure it was not in another place. I dunno what is the exact problem so i'll let others help you because i never see this on my years of installations.