Re: A8N5X & SATA

Injun Ear wrote:
Injun Ear wrote:
Rob C. wrote:
Injun Ear wrote:
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.

I think you have a bad/wrong file. On the ASUS website for your board, under Utilities you need the file named:
NVIDIA chipset drivers disk for Windows 2000, Windows XP/2003 32bit and Windows XP/2003 64bit.

When you unzip the file navigate down to the MakeDisk.exe file located under "MakeDisk/XP_32/sataraid". That should get you what you want to make the F6 floppy.
Rob C.
I already have that. I downloaded it yesterday. But when I try to install to the SATA drive and press F6, it gets to the part where it says no mass storage. and kicks me back out. I hit S like it says and nothing. If I try that while installing to the IDE, it shows some drivers. But if I load them onto the IDE and then ghost that to the SATA, still no good. According to what all the websites are saying, I shouldn't need a driver if I'm not doing RAID. This is just a single SATA drive. Just got it from WD. It's a recertified drive to replace one that I sent back under warranty. I wanted to this SATA drive in my backup computer.

I had no trouble at all ghosting the images when I installed a new 500 GB SATA drive in THIS computer that I'm on right now. This one is an Intel Q6600 on a Gigabyte MOBO, W/Intel chipset.

Well, I wiped the disk clean and did a clean install and it works. No F6 drivers, no nothing. Just works. Thanks to all for your help.

This is what I discovered. You DON'T NEED any F6 SATA driver if you are only running one hard drive. All you need to do is a clean install from scratch. Format the drive as part of the install process. It'll work!!!
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