tke1now Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Just bought a seagate barracuda 500GB SATA drive and installed it on my AMD machine.Mobo ASUS A8V Deluxe.Drive appears in BIOS.I have SATA settings in BIOS set to run in IDE immulation mode. (I'm not setting up a RAID).XP (svc pk2) doesn't recognize or show the drive in My Computer, Device Manager, or Disk Management.I read something about having to put SATA drivers on a floppy in order for XP to use the drive?That can't be right can it? A floppy ????Please point me in the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/23/w...e-on-ahci-mode/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tke1now Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 I appreciate the link.Here are my questions.A) It is cited numerous times in the link that this is done during an installation of XP.I am not installing XP nor do I intend to reinstall it.I want to get my existing OS to recognize the SATA drive.I still have my original XP disc, can I put it in and just install what is needed?Any ideas there?Or any other way to get XP to recognize the drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Read this ?http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRDand this :-http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Seagate DiscWizardhttp://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000f5ee0a0aRCRD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tke1now Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Read this ?http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRDand this :-http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRDI read through all of this last night. The trouble shooter is not very effective in my opinion.It tells you how to trouble shoot your drive if it is recognized by your operting system. Obvliously that won't apply here.I do appreciate the links, I don't mean to sound "snippy", I'm just really frustrated at this point.Further advise is welcomed, hell I'm practically begging for it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Have you initialised the disk using the "Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard" ?See :-http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagat...TE%2A&p_li= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ced Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Does appear as "unkown hardware" or doesn't it appear at all?If it appears as an unkown device/hardware, right click-> update driver-> use the driver on the CD.If the device does not appear at all, try to use the HP driver (this is the best i could find on google!)you can do a couple of things, which are listed in the readme that opens after the short setup/unpack procedure. (remember where you unpacked it!)good luck with it! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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