Got an OEM Western digital SATA....

NeptuneUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:42

...now what?? It's not detected in the windows XP setup, and I don't have a floppy drive.
Or a driver.

Justintime · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:52

You'd need the driver for the motherboard SATA controller, can probably be downloaded, if you have no floppy you can integrate the driver with programs such as winlite etc.. Or if your BIOS has an IDE mode for the SATA controller windows should see it then. What motherboard do you have?

NeptuneUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:53

I have an ASRock 775 twins mobo. So I have acess to the SATA drivers I guess from the site or something, but I have no floppy drive!

Justintime · 11 Jan 2007 at 01:03

Where it says ACHI, change this to IDE. Have not used this motherboard but its that way on all the Asrocks i build with.

If you find a floppy drive, see this page : http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cach...k+775+twins+IDE+mode&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1

NeptuneUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 16:20

I cant change it to IDE, only RAID

Justintime · 11 Jan 2007 at 19:54

Use Nlite to slipstream the drivers into a windows install disk then. http://www.nliteos.com/ or just get a cheap floppy drive

NeptuneUK · 11 Jan 2007 at 20:18

Dunno what Im doing, but Im doing it anyway.