Using Sata Drive in native Sata mode Windows XP

[megatron]

When windows xp loads you get a prompt to "press F3 to load drivers" so that u can run the hard drives in Sata mode. However when running in Sata mode does a drive need to be set as a dynamic disc? I keep all of my drives as basic as I once had an issue when I reinstalled the OS, I could not access a large dynamic hard drive for whatever reason but the solution was to hack it back to dynamic with the help of a hexidecimal editor.

I just got a G15, Xonar dx and a new Hitachi 7k100.b 1Tb drive.

 

[leexgx]

if the bios is set to Sata/ide mode no drivers be needed, if its set to AHCI mode (may be called something els on your bios) or set to RAID you need an F3 driver (Floppy ) or Slip streamed into the XP disk it self

all hdds should be in basic mode under norm use only need dynamic once it gets past 2TB disk (and an 64bit os mite be needed)

what is your motherboard model

 

[megatron]

if the bios is set to Sata/ide mode no drivers be needed, if its set to AHCI mode (may be called something els on your bios) or set to RAID you need an F3 driver (Floppy ) or Slip streamed into the XP disk it self

all hdds should be in basic mode under norm use only need dynamic once it gets past 2TB disk (and an 64bit os mite be needed)

what is your motherboard model

Thanks I have a Gigabyte P35-DQ6 rev 1.0 bios F6. Check this thread for a screenshot of bios:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18017315

Needs dynamic for RAID too I believe.

 

[master811]

all hdds should be in basic mode under norm use only need dynamic once it gets past 2TB disk (and an 64bit os mite be needed)

It's not actually a 64-bit OS that is needed to support more than 2TB volumes, it's just that 32-bit XP doesn't support it (at least not for booting). Any newer Windows OS (than XP 32-bit) however will support them. i.e. 32-bit Vista or 64-bit XP will be fine.

 

[miniyazz]

Nope. No disk larger than 2TB can be booted from, whether 32 or 64 bit OS, unless it's an Itanium-based computer in which the motherboards support booting from GPT (partition table). MFT (which is what NTFS uses) only supports up to 2TB - larger than that, and the disk has to make use of GPT, which supports larger HDDs but isn't bootable on regular motherboards.

 

[leexgx]

2 threads is annoying can some one merge them (with 3000 posts as well should know better)