Re: A8N5X & SATA

Rob C. wrote:
Injun Ear wrote:
Trying to get XP to boot on a WD3200 SATA drive on the A8N5X Mobo.
I Keep getting "Error Loading OS"

I ran the WD disk and set up the drive
I can see the drive in BIOS
I can run XP on an IDE drive and see the SATA drive in My computer
I can ghost XP from the IDE to the SATA
If I do a repair install on the SATA and press F6, it can't see the drivers I copied to a floppy.
If I do the repair install on the IDE and press F6, it loads the drivers.
If I ghost the repaired install from the IDE to the SATA it still won't boot.
If I run the repair install on the SATA without the F6, it still won't boot.
I can run the repair console and do Fixboot and get same results.

Where is the correct SATA driver for this MOBO. I tried downloading SATA drivers from ASUS, but all I get are 3 files...raidmgmt.ini, sata.bmp and sata.exe. F6 doesn't recognize any of these. I downloaded
drivers from the Western DIgital site and it recognizes them when I'm running the IDE drive, but not when I'm trying to repair the installation on the SATA drive.

Anybody have any suggestions??




Sounds like the file you downloaded is a "Make Disk" program. Drop a blank floppy in your PC and run the sata.exe file. It should create the disk you need to use at the F6 prompt to install Windows. Hope that sorts it out a little.
Rob C.
Nope, I tried it with a floppy in the drive. The Sata.exe does absolutely NOTHING. I found another one that makes a floppy, and I did it. But when I tried it with F6, it wouldn't load anything.
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