I need my mom to think i'm smart again...

[Starfishy]

Alright, I am at my mother's house "fixing" her computer. And I figured the easiest way to do this would be to format and reinstall windows xp. Last night I backed up all the stuff she wanted to DVD. Today I went to format the hard drive (Maxtor DiomondMax +9 80Gb SATA) and I put in the xp disk, and it gave me the following message:

"Setup did not find any dard disk drives installed in your computer"

It only gave me the option to exit setup... therefor I cannot even format the HD. So this is my cry for help... I have no idea what to do. Does anyone know which drivers I should be using?? And if I need to do that how do I install the drivers without any windows installed?? (did I mention that through some maxtor software, MaxBlast3, I managed to clear the HD?)

Gigabyte Motherboard:
GA-8IPE1000 Pro3
Intel 865PE chipset

 

[pat]

I guess that you havent pressed F6 to install third party controller to have the installation programs to recongnize your SATA controller?? Then start the install, press F6 when asked(nothing will happen...for now), get the SATA floppy drivers ready for when the install program will ask you to do so and tell your mom that I'm smarter than you!

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

 

[Crashman]

Does the board detect the disk? Make sure it's set as the bootable disk in BIOS (there's normally an option to boot from an ATA100 or SATA drive in BIOS). Set it to boot off the CD first and the SATA drive second.

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[Crashman]

Sorry Mr. Domascus (pronounce that slowly). But it looks like he's smarter than you! The SATA RAID controller only works as a non-RAID controller with 1 drive installed, and BIOS tells setup it's a standard ATA drive (using the generic IDE driver). No special drivers are needed for SATA drives on the ICH5R controller unless it's in RAID mode.

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