Yea, i had some issues getting my sata drive to work as well. I had to copy the drivers onto a floppy and then install them at the beginning of the windows installation. It will prompt you to install drivers for a raid setup (like reaper said). You really have to watch for it tho, it flashes the option pretty quickly. So just install your drivers at that point, and hopefully it will solve your problem.
it shouldn't hang up on startup if it's not the boot/master drive. it might throw an erroror say that it can't recognize it in the BIOS, but it should boot.
Quote from: Whirlingdervish(Q2C) on June 26, 2007, 10:43:11 AMit shouldn't hang up on startup if it's not the boot/master drive. it might throw an erroror say that it can't recognize it in the BIOS, but it should boot.that's exactly what it does. It doesn't even get to the bios config....it tries to recognize the drive and hangs
it should not hang before or in BIOS, something may have messed it up to where BIOS can't figure out what it' geometry is
you are not sure if the BIOS is detecting the drive properly; find out, change the options such as autonegotiate.if this BIOS is not detecting the drive, try the below steps.check what the motherboard supports, and make sure your drive is appropriate (although evidently it seems supported).
try following the general troubleshooting steps I suggestedQuote from: reaperyou are not sure if the BIOS is detecting the drive properly; find out, change the options such as autonegotiate.if this BIOS is not detecting the drive, try the below steps.check what the motherboard supports, and make sure your drive is appropriate (although evidently it seems supported). then connect the drive to a different port/channel (if that's possible), and maybe clear the CMOS, or upgrade the BIOS.if it is detecting the drive properly, then your dealing with windows and the appropriate drivers, search the net, or ask someone; I believe you have to hit a certain key as windows is installing to select RAID drivers, and SATA drivers.i want to add - make sure the BIOS options are set correctly. I believe the BIOS should be configured to detect the SATA drive, and boot from it. there may be multiple options, such as autonegotiate
you are not sure if the BIOS is detecting the drive properly; find out, change the options such as autonegotiate.if this BIOS is not detecting the drive, try the below steps.check what the motherboard supports, and make sure your drive is appropriate (although evidently it seems supported). then connect the drive to a different port/channel (if that's possible), and maybe clear the CMOS, or upgrade the BIOS.if it is detecting the drive properly, then your dealing with windows and the appropriate drivers, search the net, or ask someone; I believe you have to hit a certain key as windows is installing to select RAID drivers, and SATA drivers.
I think I'm just going to take it back and have them set it up.
I found this posted somewhere, might be related to your problem as he uses the same mobo.Quote: "(...) I also got 1 ide to Sata convertor. It's very small and red and no brand. While I got it to work with my Pioneer 105 DVD RW drive it wouldn't boot to do an install. I did get it to work with one of my hard drives. So I have one hard drive set as master & the DVD drive set as slave on the ide bus. I set the hard drive to master or master single drive. Cable select isn't recommended. I have it plugged into the red #1 SATA port. The black SATA ports are marked slave, it's easy to go wrong with the drive pins. The hard thing to figure out for me was the bios settings. After much fussing I found that default settings most likely would have worked fine and that doing a bios upgrade was mostly for newer Core2 CPU's which I don't have. Here is the bios area where I went wrong and it's a bit tricky. In your manual it's under 2.3.5 IDE Configuration. Should be set to the default of First line: Enhanced Mode, next line: S-ATAAny other seting will cause issues for most people as the manual says and it's true. My guess is this is where you went wrong unless the board is defective. I had trouble with this as the setting seems wrong until I read the manual carefully. Best of luck"Still not very clear but without looking at the bios settings myself I can't really recommend anything. I would probably try booting from CD again first to install the sata drivers from floppy. During the booting from cd hit F6 and install additional drivers. Once the drivers are installed, the installer should recognize your drive and give you the option to format it (again...), and NTFS should be one of the available options. You should be able to cancel the Windows installation after the drive is formatted. After that again boot from the Windows CD to see if it loads or installs any more needed files.Quote from: [BTF]Sigma on June 30, 2007, 06:26:36 AMI think I'm just going to take it back and have them set it up.That's probably the best option I guess. GL.