SATAII problems.

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Ham

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Right, A few days ago my trusty 40gb maxtor bootdirive had a fit and died on me. Its been hammering away on its last legs since. But im now in possesion of a 200GB SATA replacement (thanks to the worderfule ST guys:D).

Now ive just got to install the dam thing.

So far ive tried:

Plug n play option - plug it in, boot from the old drive. All seemed fine, then diskmanager wouldnt left me format it.

Drivers - Installed the SATAII drivers off my ASRock disk, windows started loadign and never finished.

Fresh format - unpluged all bar the new drive, used the files from the CD, put onto a floppy for the extra drivers thing in windows installer. Gets to 'Copying files' and it sticks at either 7 or 9 %.

Ive tried running it at SATA speed via the jumper and still did the same thing.

Im thinking i might not have the bios set up correctly but the user manuals are useless.

Any help welcome:(
 
name='Ham' said:
Yeah its set to IDE. Whats the difference in SATA and IDE modes?
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Well depends on the board but setting the SATA drive to run in IDE mode means that it sets it as a master IDE drive, rather than a RAID drive. You shouldn't have to use the F6 option whilst installing windows
 
Okie, 1 more thing before i try an install without the extra driver things. Ive got 1 sata2 port and 2 sata prots on my board, in the bios its got sata set to RAID. Will this effect my sata2 port?

The sata and sata2 have theyre own settings lists in the bios, if that makes sence.
 
Well it got a whole 1% extra before giving out on me that time. I dont get why it will format the whole drive, but then not let me copy files to it.
 
sounds to me that u may have a hardware isssue somewhere. u tried changing the sata data cable or the ide for the optical drive?
 
Ive only got teh 1 SATA cable and im pretty sure my IDEs are ok as ive been using them for ages and they work fine with the IDE HDD. I now want to get rid of the drivers i installed earlyer but i cant find a trace of them anywhere:confused:

Oh, and sounds silly, but SATA and SATA2 cables are the same right?
 
Hmm, ill try in the SATA ports then with the hdd jumper on sata. Didn't want to but if its all that'll work.

Memory should be fine as it was running 100% at 220mhz and now its back to 200, same timings.
 
Well pluged into the SATA port and jumper set to run at 1.5Gb its booted off the old and is formatting away now.

However when i booted i got teh usual windows hardware boxs, and was then informed it wasn't installed correctly. Yet it seems to be working fine.

Hopfuly now ill be able to trueimage my old HDD onto it.

Oh well, thank for all the help, much appriciated. And i will look into getting a cable i think.
 
name='Kempez' said:
Have you set SATA to run in IDE mode
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You have an 'integrated peripherals' heading in your BIOS Ham? I'd be interested to know what settings you had enabled when trying to get your SATA up and running. Your issue may still lie there
 
I've just replaced my motherboard with an ASRock dual sata, as my Abit at8 motherboard decided to die last week (never again!).

There are 2 raid enabled sata ports on the board, and one sata 2 on a separate controller. IDE mode appears to be the default for the sata 2.

After hooking up my Spinpoint there were some interesting moments with the driver, and yes I got lots of 'hardware not installed correctly' messages.

Everything's working fine though, and it's all nice and zippy.

The only thing is my hard drive is listed in the system tray as a scsi device.

Is this normal?

Seems like a great board spoiled by a lack of documentation.
 
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