noob sata2 problem, loading drivers

airdrawn · 19 Aug 2006 at 23:19

I have just built my first system with a asrock conroe xfire board, conroe 6300 etc, but i dont think i installed the hd right? its a 250gb seagate 7200.10 sata 2 drive, but i tried to follow the instructions for creating a floppy diskette, but it just kept saying, this board does not support sata drives, so installed as an ide? any ideas what i have done and how to rectify it? i understand i may have to install again, but hey ho

SiriusB · 20 Aug 2006 at 01:18

If your Windows XP disc has SP2 slipstreamed into it you wont need any extra drivers as it should be able to use the HDD straight away.

There is a pretty good chance it will work even if it is only SP1. Worth a shot before arsing about with making a driver disk etc.

SiriusB

Foehammer2003 · 20 Aug 2006 at 01:46

To get SATAII on my mobo (asrock dual sata2 939) i ran the sata2 drivers from the cd driver disk from windows, rebooted, went into BIOS and changed the HD setting from IDE to SATA2... sorted

Should be almost identical for yours, and you dont have to reinstall windows.

airdrawn · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:53

well i tried running the drives from the cd rom, but it wouldnt do it, something along the lines of incompatible hardware? is there anyway of checking what the drive is installed as? everything works fine, just not sure its installed correctly. is it possible to actually install it as a standard ata drive?

Foehammer2003 · 20 Aug 2006 at 23:51

There may well be, but i wondered the same thing a while back, and never fund my answer. Its strange that it report incompatible hardware, however imo the difference between SATA and IDE operating modes is minimal in performance terms. I used IDE for months then changed and noticed little (none) improvement tbh

Justintime · 21 Aug 2006 at 00:15

SiriusB said:
If your Windows XP disc has SP2 slipstreamed into it you wont need any extra drivers as it should be able to use the HDD straight away.

There is a pretty good chance it will work even if it is only SP1. Worth a shot before arsing about with making a driver disk etc.

SiriusB

Only if set to IDE mode, ACHI and RAID mode require drivers, F6 and floppy or slipstreamed in for that board.