Doing my first build with SATA

krooton · 28 Jun 2007 at 14:52

I'm building a pc for a mate next week, and it will be the first time I am installing a SATA drive.

Does the plug and play aspect work in the same was as IDE?

I'm using a Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD ATI Micro ATX as he plays no games, and just want to check that when I plug the SATA cables into the SATA ports on the mobo, the drive will be detected automatically like IDE, so I can then partition it.

Sorry for the noob question, lol

helmutcheese · 28 Jun 2007 at 15:12

On most modern mobos and with XP-SP1 or above it will work as normal, I had a NF2 with Silicon controler and I had to use F6+ a Floppy each reinstall of Windows or HDD was not seen.

krooton · 28 Jun 2007 at 16:17

So the Abit should be fine?

Cheers

worthingsaxovtr · 28 Jun 2007 at 16:27

and install the drives of the mobo cd

krooton · 28 Jun 2007 at 19:37

worthingsaxovtr said:
and install the drives of the mobo cd

How would I do that though?

I need to install XP on the driver first, so I need to detect and partition the drive before I can install its drivers.

fobose · 28 Jun 2007 at 19:40

I think all new boards now dont need "SATA" drivers when set to IDE/legacy mode and windows detects it just fine. I have seen a few threads where people say to "install the sata drivers from the CD once in windows" but perhaps they are getting confused with some disk management software.

helmutcheese · 28 Jun 2007 at 20:00

The Asus CD/DVD can make you Sata drivers, even with no OS, the disc is bootable and you insert a floppy, but I doubt you need it unless Raid.

Garyj881 · 29 Jun 2007 at 17:50

It wll be the same as installing your os on an ide, don't worry about it.