How Do I Set a SATA Drive To Boot Windows?

Wont matter if set to ide0 or other if he only has a sata drive, I think he needs a driver and floppy+F6 to even get windows onto the sata, cause he aint on xpsp2 slipstreamed with a nf4 chipset, if silicon or other he may well need the drivers 1st.

On another note I have read some here saying the NF4 mobos trick windows into seeing the controler as eide till you later get sata drivers installed, this is not true, you need XPSP2 on the cd slipstreamed, it wont work if its old XP or even XPSP1, in that case you need floppy +F6 as normal then you can install your service packs.

SP1 brought Sata support and SP2 brought native Sata support to some controlers not inc Silicon Image where you still need floppy +F6, this is/was same on Longhorn/Vista, although Vista has now added options for floppy/cdrom/usb device to menu.
 
Ok you have a Abit NF2 mobo with (im 99% sure ( a Silicon Image 3112 Sata Raid Controler as it seems by specs on Abit site its 2 channel not 4 channels like Sil 3114, anyhow you need goto Silicon site grab driver bellow, extract to a floppy and when you boot pc to cdrom for windows cd to start to install, RIGHT AT START, dont takes eyes of screen, you will see msg about pressing F6 for RAID set up, press it then in few mins it will ask for driver from floppy, just follow on screen info, so longs you have set pc to boot from cdrom, please leave floppy in drive ignoring windows msg to remove, cause it needs it initually to even get to the screen where you choose HDd and partition info, then again when its installing window.

http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/SiI3x12A-Serial ATA (SATA) Windows RAID Driver.zip

There is a newer driver you can update to later on MS updates but it may have been pulled as it was on the Silicon site, this is noe you need for now to get XP running.
 
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