getting there Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 GidayI connected a sata drive for the first time to my Gigabyte 8s661fxm-775 motherboard!Prior to connection, existing structure with “No Flop” includes:C: DISK 0 : NTFS : 40G IDE : Windows XPD: DVD DriveG: DISK 1 : NTFS : 40G IDE : “Used for storage”This now also includes my new Sata hard drive:E: DISK 2 : NTFS : 80G Sata : (After formatted to NTFS and assigned the letter E via XP control panel)_____________________________I then disconnected the two IDE Hard drive to simplify installation of Server 03 R2 to the new Sata Hard drive. Installation failed because windows cannot find the Sata hard drive at installation of Server._____________________________After learning of this I went to Gigabytes Site and found SiS 964 Preinstall driver made for Floppy, after nLite-ing using the option for add drivers only the resulting windows Server 03 disk still failed, Sata not recognized during install.Next I downloaded the full motherboard_driver_raid_sis964.exe (5.52M) package to try!I extracted and explored the package to find:3 of the folders:180B, 964_180 and 965 that contain INF files for server 03 and other OSThe folder called FloppyImage also contains OS INF files.Then there is Setup, cab and other related components..I removed the INF files that were included for Floppy use and none Server OS.(Thinking these would not be needed?)In my next attempt to nLite Sata driver I planned to also remove existing SCSI/RAID with nLite removal feature during the process if this might help?UPDATE:Just tried again, here is what nLite says in Last Session_u.ini[Components];# Drivers #SCSI/RAID[Drivers]C:\Documents and Settings\Study\Desktop\SERVER WORK\sis180\180OB\srv2003\SISRaid1.INF,0C:\Documents and Settings\Study\Desktop\SERVER WORK\sis180\964_180\srv2003\SISRaid.INF,0C:\Documents and Settings\Study\Desktop\SERVER WORK\sis180\965\srv2003\SISRaid2.INF,0Should this attempt work or am I making a mistake still, I have been trying to work this out for some time with numerous searches on the subject and would be very appreciative of anybodies knowledge or experience in the correct procedure and required driver configuration or use. Am I doing this correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getting there Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Further info:Extracted contents of motherboard_driver_raid_sis964.exe In the extracted folder "sis180" there is Setup, .cab, .bin, .boot, .ini, .hdr, .iss and 6 folders!3 of the folders:180B, 964_180 and 965 that contain INF files for server 03 and other OSThe folder called FloppyImage also contains OS INF files.Folder "win98me" that contains INF file.The last folder "RAIDAP" contains subfolders "32bitAP" and "64bitAP" both containing OsStripe.exe and Sraid.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 I don't understand what you are doing... Are you booting from floppy to install Server 2003, or...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getting there Posted April 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 I don't understand what you are doing... Are you booting from floppy to install Server 2003, or...?I am trying to install Server from a CD onto a new sata hard drive.No, I have no floppy drive on my computer (Cannot use F3 to install control driver with floppy for Sata)Because I have no floppy drive, I used nLite to add SIS drivers and remove old SCSI/RAID from Server 03 disk.BIOS SETTING UNDER INTERGRATED PERIPHERALS SIS Serial ATA Mode = RaidLast night I tried a second Server 03 disk Used nLite to include Motherboard Sata driver but left the old SCSI/RAID un-removed.Again sata hard drive not recognised during attempt to install Server 2003 from disk.I will try again without including driver and change BIOS setting from Raid to IDE.This is not really the answer even if it works.There must be another way other than inserting a Floppy? If it were not so expensive in time and money I would laugh. Thanks for looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getting there Posted April 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Problem Solved:QUOTE: From Kelsenellenelvia of MSFN nLite forum.http://america.giga-byte.com/FileList/Driv...sis_964sata.exe you grabbed the wrong package bud.Take this one and extract with winrar.put the txtsetup.oem file in the proper os folder (server2003) and choose THAT folder with nlite. When you get the popup select txtmode drivers and off you go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Good! Thanks for the feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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