Sata Hard Drive Installation HELP!!

How do SATAs work, cuz im just startin up my new comp right now and i dont know if i hooked up the hard drive correctly. Its a seagate barricuda 160 gig sata hd. Do i need any drivers or anything??

the comp detects the drive(i think), but i need to know how to set it up in bios

What motherboard?
Does the drive show up in Computer Management and has it been formatted yet?

Inquiring minds want to know...

gigabyte technology nforce 4 ultra u remeber the other post dont u =) im finally helping him set it up


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do we use the red or the yellow cable? I'm connecting it throught the red cable but it finds the device but saids it not valid, saids 147gb

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Originally Posted by Soul814

do we use the red or the yellow cable? I'm connecting it throught the red cable but it finds the device but saids it not valid, saids 147gb

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What are the red and yellow cables?
A SATA data cable is a SATA data cable irregardless of the color.

Right click on My Computer and select "manage".
In the window that appears select your new SATA drive and format it...Windows cannot "see" the drive until you do this.

147GB is right...the discrepancy is due to the way that manufacturers describe the size as opposed to the way Windows does.

we cant install windows because it does not recognize a hard drive

we are using a brand new hard drive there is no other hard drives installed

Heed the great wisdom from the North...

Listen to lynx advice in the quote.

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Originally Posted by clocker

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Originally Posted by lynx

The only problem with SATA is that it is too new for the drivers to be included with XP, so you need to use the driver diskette (provided with the mobo) when installing XP. Not a problem, just press F6 when the prompt comes up, then insert the diskette and off it goes. Always assuming you've included a floppy drive.

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AHA! Gotcha.

This is not true anymore.
Nforce4 boards present the SATA drives to Windows as an IDE drive...no driver/ floppy/F6 is required.

You only need to F6 a driver in if you are RAIDing.

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Busy whittling a IDE drive in the cold. :whistling

lol yea lol u need a floppy only problem my friend has a notebook without a floppy device =/ and im no where near my house lol i brought over my floppy drive to install xp but we cant create a nice driver

Don't you have the diskette that is provided with the motherboard?

we have the cd any ideas>?

any one have any ideas?

so i changed the cable to a yellow SATA cable and it found the hd, it installed windows the setup stuff necessary to the computer and then it restarted u know the blue screen, it restarted and now it has to somehow boot into the hard drive any ideas how to boot into the hard drive so it can finish the rest of the setup

FINISHED ==> Spent 1 hr on SATA cable, first i connected the yellow cable, then i saw a red one in a manual and so I changed it, it was the yellow SATA cable =/

SECOND ==> Spent 3 hrs, Had to disable all the RAID stuff, cause it kept booting the RAID stuff then it worked, hardware took 2-3 hrs only =/ everything works now

For future reference, the problem was as follows:

The board has 2 SATA interfaces, the first (red) is included in the NF4 chipset and has drivers natively supported by XP. The other (yellow) has a SiI3114 chip which is not natively supported by XP.

However, the SATA interface included in the NF4 chipset is not supported when it is used in raid mode, which is why you needed to disable raid.