New OS problems

[Dubb3d]

Hello,

I am currently trying to put a new SATA HDD into my brothers PC.

His mobo is a Abit Av8, I have had problems installing SATA onto it before with windows XP as it requires you to provide it with SATA drivers from a floppy or some other source. I actually formatted the drive in question on my own PC with the hope of only having to unplug the old IDE one and plug in the new SATA.

But I get a 'No boot disk please insert systen disk' or some version of that, I can boot from CD and get to the reformating procedure but I end up in a similar situation where it tells me there is no hard disk to install windows on.

I am trying to install windows 7 but the mobo can't recognise that theres a hard drive there and it wont show up in the bios.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks

 

[Dubb3d]

I haven't as the last time they were updated for the AV8 was 2005 and I have a feeling that this is complicated with the addition of windows 7, as I have successfully loaded drivers for SATA drives to work with this mobo and XP in the past.

Surely it couldnt be possible that the combination of windows 7, the av8 and the SATA drivers just aren't compatible??

 

[Dubb3d]

Just wanted to thank you guys for your help and give an update in case anyone was curious.

I fixed the problem by discovering the Mobo did not support SATA II i.e. 3 GB's, this was fixed by adding a jumper to lower the rate to 1.5GB/s.

Just a little update as its always nice when people share solutions!