HELP! SATA driver help needed

[galadial]

I have a Gigabyte DS3 with a Seagate 320GB HDD. I;ve been told I need to install the SATA driver to get the OS to recognise the HDD during windows XP install. Where do I find the SATA driver and what is it called?

Windows seems to be installing itself quite nicely, do I need to install the driver and can I install it at a later date?

Not really sure what's going on - can someone point me in the right direction?

G

 

[galadial]

You only need a driver if the SATA controller doesn't emulate normal IDE mode or if your disks are in a RAID array. Most modern boards (yours included) will work fine with a single disk with no user intervention.

Since your install is progressing nicely you'll not need a driver at this point. There will be drivers for the motherboard on the CD that came with it which will cover things like the chipset, USB controllers, SATA controllers etc but they go on once Windows is installed.

Great. Thanks for the super quick reply!