How to see SATA drive in dos

Hi,
I've got a K8N Neo2 and have fitted a SATA drive as my system disk. When I boot to a floppy, I can't find the SATA drive. Do I need some kind of driver like you do for a CD-ROM when booting to DOS?
Thanks

Go into Bios & change 1st boot device to CD or use F11 & select CD
provided youve got only the Sata Hard Disc Conected you wont need to load any drivers, at the F6 prompt (covered in Link) to load any Sata/Raid.
If more than 1 HD is Present then The MSI Floppy should be inserted & the Raid & Sata Drivers Loaded, this requires pressing the F6 button twice 1st load Raid or Sata 2nd Load the Other.
See the Section How to partition and format your hard disk by using the Windows XP Setup program should help you.
Whilst in Windows set up you dont need to partition & Format the Full drive if you dont want to just select a size for your Primary (OS) Partition, Type the size in megabytes (MB) Always confuses me at this stage I have GB in my mind & the Size never seems to come out as I expect. S/be GB x 1024
You can carve the rest of the drive up from Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management / Storage / Disc Management. Advantage of this ois that you can look around your new OS whilst windows Sorts the Partitions/ formating out.
Hope this helps - Shout if u get stuck

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Originally posted by Valaire
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