Installing SATA

Just looking for some clarity/guidance.
I'm just doing another fresh install of winXP and reading through the forums I'm wondering if it had been setup correctly before.
I have 3 HD's..
1 WD Raptor (SATA) as the OS drive
2 Maxtor drives connected through the primary IDE.
Now I originaly connected my SATA drive on serial1 so Im assuming I was using the Intel Raid controller ?
Should I be connecting it to serial3 to use the Promise controller? Which one is potentially better for me?
Also, I was also using Legacy mode for my HD's - it appears Native is better for winXP/2000?
*just to note Im not interested in setting up RAID
Thanks in advance!

Put the Raptor on SATA1. Disconnect the other drives.
In bios under Integrated Peripherals, On Chip ATA Operating Mode set
Native Mode
ATA Configuration - PATA only
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
Raid - No
Install XP. Then put the other drives back on.

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Install sata drive

have a 865pe neo2 and would like to install an sata drive and copy xp from current hard drive to sata drive. can I just install sata drive to sata controller? what to do?
Thanks
JOHN

Quote from: NovJoe on 12-August-07, 11:39:50
Yes, you can install a SATA drive in but you must do the following settings:
ATA On Chip Config: Native
ATA Mode: SATA Only
PATA Keep Enabled: Yes
PATA Channel Selection: No
Set SATA as RAID: No
The rest at defaults.
Next, you can't copy and paste windows from drive to drive as there'll be alot of i386 and winnt/system32 files being locked, thus unable to be copied over.
not looking to copy &paste but will use software that comes with sata drive or some other program to copy win xp to sata drive. will that work?

Can i install sata III hard drive?

Hi, i've an iMac G5 20" iSight with an intel core duo 2ghz. I would like to know if i can install a sata III hard drive like 128GB Crucial m4 2.5" SSD.
Thx a lot.

First, you do not have an iMac G5. G5s are PPC machines, but yours is an Intel model.
You can install a SATA III drive but I would not spend the money since your model only supports SATA I or SATA II depending on which model you have. I would also be careful about using Crucial SSDs because they may not all work in a Mac. I would get your SSD at OWC instead. You will find their equivalent product for SATA I or SATA II here. I have two of these drives, and they are excellent.

[VIA] KT6 Delta hangs when I install SATA disk

I've had a lot of problems with my PC - maybe related to the mobo, maybe not. I have a KT6 Delta LSR - and was running XP SP2 with a SATA disk on it. Not RAID - just standalone. It ran OK for about 4 months, then it crashed hard. For the last two weeks I'm trying to get my system back, but its not looking good. I think the CPU or mobo overheated - it was running about 62C - then I installed a new CPU fan and tried to render a DVD when it locked up and apparently wrecked my disk. I bought a brand new SATA disk and a new IDE disk. I installed XP fresh on the IDE disk. That runs OK. I removed the "old" disk (4 months old) from the system and installed a brand new SATA disk. But when I install the VIA SATA drivers, XP falls apart. By that I mean it can take up to 45 minutes to boot up (with an Athlon 3000+, 1Gb memory) and it acts VERY sluggish when I do finally get in.
I don't know what to do. I'd like to try to recover data from my "old" disk to the new SATA disk, but the SATA drivers make working in XP impossible. I have bought a new motherboard - an ABIT board that supports SATA, but I hate to go to the trouble of replacing the mobo, if the problem is with SATA. Maybe SATA is not ready for general use yet? Is it still being developed and maybe it is generally unstable? As long as I'm, with IDE, everything seems stable. What should I do to get data off my SATA drive? I'm sorry I ever went SATA, that's for sure. Never again.
Should I install XP on the new SATA drive like I did back in May and see if I can get data off the "old" drive - then maybe copy it to a network location somewhere? I have two fairly new 250 Gb. SATA drives that are basically useless. Unbelievable.

I did not change the CPU. Just the CPU's fan. I did not reset the CMOS after doing that. I have a Thermaltake power supply and 1GB of Corsair DDR 4000 - 2x512mb.
In another post, I found a link to a post at Western Digital where WDC claims that the disk I have is the next generation of SATA and may not be compatible with the chipset in the MSI motherboard. They recommend to jumper two pins on the disk to help out. The only thing is that my WDC disk has been running OK since May and is the one that recently crashed. I bought a Seagate SATA disk to try to restore my system to, but whenever I hook up the Seagate, the system takes over an hour to boot up. Without the Seagate it takes a few minutes. I think that maybe the Seagate is also too new for this motherboard.
I don't know how the consumer is supposed to know if a disk is compatible with a motherboard. I bought a SATA disk to use in a SATA equipped motherboard. Apparently newer versions of SATA are not backwards compatible but there is no easy way to know this in advance or to find out if your disk will work.

P55-CD53, how to install SATA AHCI drivers and Matrix Storage Manager?

Please excuse my noobness as this is for my first PC build and much of it is Greek to me, but could someone please inform/educate me as to what the following drivers (link) are for and which need to be installed after a fresh installation of Windows 7 Pro x64? Do I need to install all of them because some of these appear to be redundant, just from different manufacturers, or am I mistaken? I have a single 500GB HDD but will probably add more down the road.
JMicron JMB36x IDE Drivers (including floppy driver)
Description   XP/Vista/Win7 Ver: 17.49.04.WHQL
Update Date   2009-07-27
Your System OS   XP/Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(3989KB)
Intel P55 AHCI / RAID Drivers
Description   Ver: 8.9.0.1023
Update Date   2009-07-24
Your System OS   XP/Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(23048KB)
Intel P55 SATA RAID Driver (For floppy driver)
Description   Intel P55 SATA RAID driver
1. Extract the file and Copy all files to the floppy.
2. Press F6 to install driver through the floppy when booting and loading RAID function.
Update Date   2009-07-24
Your System OS   XP/Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(443KB)
JMicron IDE/SATA RAID Drivers (with AP)
Description   XP/Vista Driver Version: 1.17.43.05
For floppy install:
Please copy all the directories and files in the "floppy" folder to the root directory of a floppy disk to create a pre-install disk for Win2K/WinXP/Win2003/WinXP 64bits/Win2003 64bits.
For example,
A:\amd64
\x32
txtsetup.oem
To enhance IDE transfer speed, we strongly recommend you install JMicron IDE/SATA Driver.
Update Date   2009-02-23
Your System OS   Windows Vista 32/64bit
(4032KB)
Windows XP 32bit
(4032KB)
Intel TPM Device Driver
Description   Intel Trusted Platform chipset driver
XP/Vista/Win7: 2.00.0000.00
Update Date   2007-11-02
Your System OS   Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(23KB)
Windows XP 32bit
(23KB)
On a side note, I have already flashed the BIOS to 1.4 using the Forum USB Flashing Tool (thanks!).

Thanks.
After booting from the Windows 7 disc, I selected Repair Windows, Load Drivers. Which specific controllers do I need to install for the P55-CD53 MB since there are multiple controllers listed for each of the four SATA compressed files?
Considering the multiple files and multiple controllers, is there no one out there with a P55-CD53 that has AHCI mode enabled that can give dumbed down instructions on how to do so?
The manual states "Select the appropriate RAID controller and press enter." Well... which one is the appropriate controller? Am I suppose to load the driver for all the AHCI controllers if that's even possible?
For the Intel P55 AHCI / RAID Drivers compressed file, these are the controllers available within F6flpy64\iaAHCI.inf:
Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH 10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) PCH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 4 Port
Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 6 Port
Also, regarding the dual BIOS controls for SATA/IDE/RAID settings previously mentioned, I believe SATA ports 1-6 are controlled via Intel and 7,8 are controlled via Jmicron. Considering my HDD is currently plugged into SATA 1, Jmicron probably isn't necessary for the moment.
Edit:
Turns out that none of the drivers for the controllers listed in iaAHCI.inf could be installed. However, I went ahead and installed the drivers listed for all the controllers in iaStor.inf. I reinstalled Windows 7 to get rid of the BSOD. I then installed the chipset drivers and Intel Matrix Storage Manager.

Pavilion g6-1096sa - Replacement Hard Drive - Windows 7 Fresh Install - Sata Issue

A friend dropped her HP Pavilion g6-1096sa Notebook PC and the hard drive has failed (or at least I think it has).
Of course, this was before burning the restore CD's.
Before I get her to purchase a new hard drive, I wanted to install a vanilla copy of Windows 7 on a spare drive that I have (to prove 100% that the drive is faulty) but it's failing with :-
" This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk, ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in computer's bios menu ". The installer sees the drive, but won't install onto it.
It's an old 80 GB SATA II drive that I had lying around at work, which should work fine.
I've checked the bios and I can't see any options for the hard disk. I'm guessing that the bios is pretty basic, and you can't just boot into the sata controller to enable AHCI support or similar. I would have thought that AHCI support is already enabled or the original drive wouldn't have booted.
Does this model need a specific sata driver. I've checked through the driver downloads, and cannot find one for Windows 7 (found the XP version though).
Do I need a driver, or do I need to do something in the BIOS?
PS: If I put the original disk back in, I can start to load Windows 7 on it from a bootable download from Microsoft's website, but crashes at random intervals. (I think the clicking noise is giving it away though).

No one have any information on the BIOS or SATA for this model :-(

How do i install sata hard drive?

ok, i am using right now my sony dvdrw on ide1 as master and ata hard drive on ide2 as master, booting to the hard drive. i am going to install an sata hard drive and use that as the boot drive, the normal ata as a storage drive only. how will i install the sata drive? do i install it to sata 1 and then durring the install of windows xp tell it to hit f6 for third party scsi drivers and then use the intel sata floppy driver disk that came with my board? it's the MSI-6728 board. or is there anything special i need to do in the bios or what?
oh yeah. what connection for power should i use? my powersupply has sata and normal, so should i use the sata power connector? and then what's this about legacy or something in the bios, or am i wrong?

Well first of all, you dont install the Intel S-ATA Driver Disc unless you are going to create a RAID Array....Go into the BIOS and on the "On-Chip IDE Configuration" Page Set the Options like this.........
On-Chip ATA Operate Mode : Legacy
ATA Configuration : P-ATA+S-ATA
Keep S-ATA Enabled : (Greyed Out Yes)
Keep P-ATA Enabled : (Greyed Out Yes)
P-ATA Channel Selection : Both
Combined Mode Operation (At first you have to set this to P-ATA Channel 1, then switch after you Move Windows to S-ATA)
Configure S-ATA As RAID : No
Then you are Going to have to Install the OS on The SATA and Just Move the Files that you want to save from the P-ATA HDD and then Remove the P-ATA Drive from the "Boot Device" List in the BIOS....
You really should List Your Full System Specs. When you POST...Create a "Signature" with your Forum User Control Panel...........Sean REILLY875

Error BSOD when installing SATA drive on 1 & 2 (RAID 0 on 3/4 AOK)

Hi,
I have successfully installed Win XP Pro on 3 & 4, & wanted to install a Maxtor 120GB SATA drive on 1 or 2. When I do this, & enable bios on 1 & 2, windows loads then prompts for a reboot due to the install of new hardware. After posting & whilst Win is starting, it BSOD with IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS etc. I shut down computer, remove SATA drive, alter settings back to before in Bios & select last successful settings & computer reboots AOK. This happens on both SATA 1 & 2.
Is there a way of having the SATA storage disk on 1 or 2. Is it best to hot install it with the O/S up, after having changed BIOS settings to enable SATA 1 & 2?

To answer my own question, while computer is turned off, (after taking anti-static precautions) plug power to sata drive.
Connect sata data cable to M/board, do not connect sata data cable to drive.
Enable sata 1 & 2 in bios, boot to windows.
Drivers are installed for device.
Then carefully plug sata data cable into sata drive.
Windows detects new hardware.
Enter Disk Management & partition/format to your hearts content.
Thanks to those who had a look at my post. Hope this helps someone else.

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While the screws fit into hard drive screw threads they're largely useless as the mounting holes for a 5.25" optical drive do not match that of a 3.5" hard drive. If you want to do any screwing in on the drive you will at a minimum require a 3.5" to 5.25" conversion bracket. Even then the mounting can be tricky do to the short cable and likely misalignment and the connector to that of the optical drive above it.
While the installation of a drive is not difficult the mounting of it, especially if you want it nicely done, can very well be.

How to install SATA on VIA K8M890 chipset board

Hi,
When trying to install winxp - the installation doesn't recognize my sata hd.
I didn't receive any diskette with my compute.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Gidon.

Is the Hitachi drive a SataI or SataII.
Here is the Info MSI gave;
On-Board SATA
• Two SATA ports by VIA® VT8237A
- Supports storage and data transfers at up to 150MB/s
- Supports RAID 0, 1 and RAID 0+1
MSI Reminds You...
• The RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk.
So according to that the SATA Controller is a SataI and your drive must be set to that via the jumpers if it is a SATAII. The only thing you should need the floppy for is RAID. The Floppy is optional so it looks like it does not come in the box.

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while formatting my hard drive the instructions came up press F6 to install SCSI or raid drivers i put the floppy disc in (intel IAA RAID driver). the computer read the floppy, but when icame to check the device manager there were no SCSI or raid controllers. does this mean the sata drive has not installed?
thanks geoff

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I've got a Raptor and I'm running it in a K8N Neo Platinum. I've also got a Sony DVD recorder.
Which SATA do I hook the drive to and which IDE do I hook the recorder to?
Also, how do I install the SATA driver? I don't want to use RAID so do I still need to intall a SATA driver?
I ran into a problem when I was installing Windows XP and it said it couldn't load the device driver for my diskdrive and CD ROm Drive. I'm not sure why but I thought it might have something to do with SATA.
Thank you,

Oh man it's been a long 24 hours! The reason I'm just getting back is because I removed my IDE HDD from this PC and installed it in my new K8N Neo. Well, it wasn't the SATA HDD causing the problem. I then removed my PS from this computer and installed it in the new one. Well, it wasn't the PS. Then I swapped my new PC3500 Mushkin Enhanced Memory 1GB (2x512) for my 1GB of Corsair XMS PC3200 in my old PC. Well, XP installed without a problem. It was my DAMN RAM. I guess it's bad or the Neo just doesn't like it. Anyway, I finally got this computer (old) back up and running so I could post.
I put the Mushkin back in the Neo PC and tried to install XP again with just one stick at a time. It still wouldn't let me. I then lowered the speed of the memory down to 166Mhz from 200Mhz with one stick and XP loaded without a problem.
So what do you guys think? Is my memory bad or does this board just not like Mushkin PC3500?
Will I get hit will a restock fee from newegg when I return this memory and what memory should I get to replace it?

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I have a feeling that the replacement drive MAY not be compatible with my computer. Can anyone confirm this? Is the drive backward compatible? Suggestions?
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Took the plunge this afternoon. Stuck it into the B bay and rebooted. It showed up in the DistUtilities window. By all appearances I've got a good drive in the 500 gb Samsung.
There is not provision with the Samsung Spinpoint T 500 to set the jumper to 1.5 gbps mode as is provided on some other brands.
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Ultrabook Envy 6 1112TX unable to install sata disk with HDD mounting part 686594-001

Hi,
I bought my Envy 6 1112TX, it only has a small 128 msata SSD disk. So I decided to install a new SSD to increase the storage.
After checking the user guide, I purchased the disk mounting part 686594-001, then I found that the cable is no where to connect to the laptop motherboard. The interface doesn't match, so I cannot find any suitable socket to plug the cable from the disk mounting bracket.
There is a socket labelled as JHDD2 on motherboard, but it just cannot fit the cable, and where JHDD1 is labelled, there is just no socket at all.
So please advise if the part number is wrong which indicated in the user guide, or there is another socket which I missed, thanks a lot.
Regards,
Z.

robotech wrote:
Hi,
I bought my Envy 6 1112TX, it only has a small 128 msata SSD disk. So I decided to install a new SSD to increase the storage.
After checking the user guide, I purchased the disk mounting part 686594-001, then I found that the cable is no where to connect to the laptop motherboard. The interface doesn't match, so I cannot find any suitable socket to plug the cable from the disk mounting bracket.
There is a socket labelled as JHDD2 on motherboard, but it just cannot fit the cable, and where JHDD1 is labelled, there is just no socket at all.
So please advise if the part number is wrong which indicated in the user guide, or there is another socket which I missed, thanks a lot.
Regards,
Z.
Hi,
I think you need something like this.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Envy-SleekBook-6-1000-6-1006sa-HDD-SATA-Hard-Disk-Cable-DC02001-/171162...
The connector looks like an common white ZIF one. My Envy M6 has it. Is there a mSATA boot option in the BIOS? If not and you fit the hdd in it won't boot to the mSATA SSD.
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Install sata hard dive

i have a hp pavilion xv998 and my drive crashed, I accidentally ordered a sata drive and have used the adapter to connect to the mother board. My bios can not see the drive. can my mother board take the sata drive ?. i can't even format the drive. i do not have dos. when i enter set up I cannot tell anything about the drive. Please help . at least tell me if i have to get an EDI drive.

The motherboard on your system has 2 SATA ports and you have one 3.5" free bay to install a SATA Hard Drive. your motherboard supports the older SATA data interface of 1.5Gb/sec and not the newer SATA-II data interface of 3.0Gb/sec. While the SATA-II is "backwards compatible" with the older data interface, it sometimes is necessary to set the jumper on the drive (assuming it contains this jumper) for 1.5 Gb/sec operation in order for the system to recognize the drive. So check that out.
Also you need a power converter to SATA HDD. You need to also buy something like this:
Here is the link to the specifications of your unit and also has the link to the specifications of the motherboard:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00232962&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=431077&task...
I am an HP employee.
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