K7N2 ILSR + WD 160 Gb SATA HDD help

Question

Hello everybody,
I have a big problem and I've laboured for 2 days.
The story: I decided to replace the old PATA HDD (80GB Maxtor) to SATA HDD (160GB WD). But I can't to install a new os to new HDD, because the Windows install process is unable to identify the new HDD.
If I put back my old PATA HDD and start the old windows, I'm able to use the ne HDD.
Only I can't boot for it (BIOS can't see the new HDD) and can't install a new os to the new HDD.
Fasttrak driver was installed, and it identified the new HDD and RAID Array was created (sriple + 64 kb).
Has anybody idea how I can solve the problem?
Thank for your help.

Answer 1

vorosp, I can't comment on your set-up, but what I can say is that I loaded Windows 2000 on a K7N2 Delta-ILSR using a 70GB WD Raptor about a week ago - I was helped out mightily by Dr Stu.  I have just tried it again with a 300Gb Maxtor SATA-150, after reading your query.
I didn't set up anything in particular in the BIOS, but I did remove all the PATA drives.  Significant BIOS details are :
No IDE Primary Master or Slave (PATA)
IDE Secondary Master = DVD-RW
IDE Secondary Slave  = CD-RW
1st Boot device = CDROM
2nd Boot device = HDD-0
3rd Boot device = Disabled
Boot other device = Disabled
The Promise SATA RAID controller setup details are :
FastTrak 376 BIOS Version 1.00.0.21
(c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.
ID    MODE          SIZE     TRACK-MAPPING    STSTUS
========================================================
1 *   1+0 Stripe    300090M  36483/255/63     Functional
Press <Ctrl-F> to enter FastBuild (tm) Utility...
The drivers loaded from floppy by Windows 2000 (after pressing [F6] as described earlier) were identified as :
WinXP Promise FastTrack 376 Itm) Controller
Win2000 Promise FastTrack 376 Itm) Controller  <=== I used this one
WinNT Promise FastTrack 376 Itm) Controller
The contents of the floppy disk are :
A:\>dir
 Directory of A:\
12/12/2002  03:06                1,536 README.TXT
29/08/2002  09:52                1,100 txtsetup.oem
01/06/2002  01:49                   12 fasttx2k
21/01/2006  23:19       <DIR>          Win2000
               3 File(s)          2,648 bytes
               1 Dir(s)       1,307,648 bytes free
A:\>dir Win2000
 Directory of A:\Win2000
21/01/2006  23:19       <DIR>          .
21/01/2006  23:19       <DIR>          ..
01/06/2002  01:51                   17 Fasttx2k.cat
02/01/2003  20:31                1,960 fasttx2k.INF
18/12/2002  11:15              142,910 fasttx2k.sys
               3 File(s)        144,887 bytes
               2 Dir(s)       1,307,648 bytes free
I hope this helps; if not, please post any further queries and I will do what I can to answer.