forcing recognition of sataraid har drive

>I will make this as specific has possible.
>
> I just completed building a system.
> I installed a pcchips 848a motherboard supporting a 462a socket amd.
> I installed a amd 3000+ processor
> 512 mgs of ddr ram
>
> during the rebuild I attempted to reuse my old hard drives. This is where
> the problem starts.
>
> I initially wanted to reinstall my MAXTOR diamondmax Plus 9
> 8og ide hard drive. I found that the circuit board was without power.
>
> I therefore installed my old dell MAXTOR 6 gig harddrive. and installed
> windows xp home edition.
>
> I asked my wife to order me a new circuit board for the 80 gig harddrive,
> however, she ordered a new hard drive instead by mistake.
>
> the new hard drive was identical to the MAXTOR diamondmax I had except
> that
> it was a SATARAID connect instead.
>
> I then purchased a KOUTECH PSA150 SATARAID internal card and installed it.
> After several days and attempts, I was able to get windows xp to recognize
> the new drive.
> I set it up has drive F: and made it active. However, when I attempt to
> make it my primary boot drive, the system does not recognize the drive.
> I find the drive in device manager and in my computer folder.
> I can write to it, delete from it and whatever. However, I cannot change
> over to the drive and read from it has my primary drive.
> I have formatted the drive twice and like I said it works.
>
>
> When I disconnect the 6 gig hard drive with windows on it and attempt to
> boot the system to the install disk for windows xp, it does not see the
> sata
> hard drive.
> My question is how do I get the system to recognize the sata on boot and
> install windows xp and use it primarily.
>
> I would like to remove the smaller drive and when I get the system board
> for
> the maxtor diamondmax plus 9 ide drive I hope to reinstall it an recover
> the
> software.
>
> This would then allow me to have two 80 gig drives that I hope to be able
> to
> make into a single 160.
> please help

>I will make this as specific has possible.
>
> I just completed building a system.
> I installed a pcchips 848a motherboard supporting a 462a socket amd.
> I installed a amd 3000+ processor
> 512 mgs of ddr ram
>
> during the rebuild I attempted to reuse my old hard drives. This is where
> the problem starts.
>
> I initially wanted to reinstall my MAXTOR diamondmax Plus 9
> 8og ide hard drive. I found that the circuit board was without power.
>
> I therefore installed my old dell MAXTOR 6 gig harddrive. and installed
> windows xp home edition.
>
> I asked my wife to order me a new circuit board for the 80 gig harddrive,
> however, she ordered a new hard drive instead by mistake.
>
> the new hard drive was identical to the MAXTOR diamondmax I had except
> that
> it was a SATARAID connect instead.
>
> I then purchased a KOUTECH PSA150 SATARAID internal card and installed it.
> After several days and attempts, I was able to get windows xp to recognize
> the new drive.
> I set it up has drive F: and made it active. However, when I attempt to
> make it my primary boot drive, the system does not recognize the drive.
> I find the drive in device manager and in my computer folder.
> I can write to it, delete from it and whatever. However, I cannot change
> over to the drive and read from it has my primary drive.
> I have formatted the drive twice and like I said it works.
>
>
> When I disconnect the 6 gig hard drive with windows on it and attempt to
> boot the system to the install disk for windows xp, it does not see the
> sata
> hard drive.
> My question is how do I get the system to recognize the sata on boot and
> install windows xp and use it primarily.
>
> I would like to remove the smaller drive and when I get the system board
> for
> the maxtor diamondmax plus 9 ide drive I hope to reinstall it an recover
> the
> software.
>
> This would then allow me to have two 80 gig drives that I hope to be able
> to
> make into a single 160.
> please help

> Whoops, just realized I was in the Vista group, scratch the F6 suggestion.
> You need to provide the SATA controller drivers on floppy, CD, or other
> media during the setup process so the setup program can access the drive.
>
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> "ronnielee" <ronnielee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6DEE58EC-6A45-41C6-B0AB-6322D7326A82@microsoft.com...

> >I will make this as specific has possible.
> >
> > I just completed building a system.
> > I installed a pcchips 848a motherboard supporting a 462a socket amd.
> > I installed a amd 3000+ processor
> > 512 mgs of ddr ram
> >
> > during the rebuild I attempted to reuse my old hard drives. This is where
> > the problem starts.
> >
> > I initially wanted to reinstall my MAXTOR diamondmax Plus 9
> > 8og ide hard drive. I found that the circuit board was without power.
> >
> > I therefore installed my old dell MAXTOR 6 gig harddrive. and installed
> > windows xp home edition.
> >
> > I asked my wife to order me a new circuit board for the 80 gig harddrive,
> > however, she ordered a new hard drive instead by mistake.
> >
> > the new hard drive was identical to the MAXTOR diamondmax I had except
> > that
> > it was a SATARAID connect instead.
> >
> > I then purchased a KOUTECH PSA150 SATARAID internal card and installed it.
> > After several days and attempts, I was able to get windows xp to recognize
> > the new drive.
> > I set it up has drive F: and made it active. However, when I attempt to
> > make it my primary boot drive, the system does not recognize the drive.
> > I find the drive in device manager and in my computer folder.
> > I can write to it, delete from it and whatever. However, I cannot change
> > over to the drive and read from it has my primary drive.
> > I have formatted the drive twice and like I said it works.
> >
> >
> > When I disconnect the 6 gig hard drive with windows on it and attempt to
> > boot the system to the install disk for windows xp, it does not see the
> > sata
> > hard drive.
> > My question is how do I get the system to recognize the sata on boot and
> > install windows xp and use it primarily.
> >
> > I would like to remove the smaller drive and when I get the system board
> > for
> > the maxtor diamondmax plus 9 ide drive I hope to reinstall it an recover
> > the
> > software.
> >
> > This would then allow me to have two 80 gig drives that I hope to be able
> > to
> > make into a single 160.
> > please help

>

> all of the drivers are installed. the windows xp environment recognizes
> the
> drive. I understand that i need to get it to be the primary. However,
> when
> i remove the hard drive with windows xp and keep the sataraid card and hdd
> in
> the system but the bios does not recognize the drive and i do not get a
> boot
> device.
> I just attempted to reload the bios drivers and got a fatal error "rom
> erase
> error" unable to load drivers. However, this disrupted the previous bios
> and
> now i am unable to boot at all even to the bios screen.
>
> "David B." wrote:
>

>> Whoops, just realized I was in the Vista group, scratch the F6
>> suggestion.
>> You need to provide the SATA controller drivers on floppy, CD, or other
>> media during the setup process so the setup program can access the drive.
>>
>> --
>>
>> ----
>> Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>> How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
>> How to Post http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>> __________________________________________________ _______________________________
>>
>>
>> "ronnielee" <ronnielee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6DEE58EC-6A45-41C6-B0AB-6322D7326A82@microsoft.com...

>> >I will make this as specific has possible.
>> >
>> > I just completed building a system.
>> > I installed a pcchips 848a motherboard supporting a 462a socket amd.
>> > I installed a amd 3000+ processor
>> > 512 mgs of ddr ram
>> >
>> > during the rebuild I attempted to reuse my old hard drives. This is
>> > where
>> > the problem starts.
>> >
>> > I initially wanted to reinstall my MAXTOR diamondmax Plus 9
>> > 8og ide hard drive. I found that the circuit board was without power.
>> >
>> > I therefore installed my old dell MAXTOR 6 gig harddrive. and installed
>> > windows xp home edition.
>> >
>> > I asked my wife to order me a new circuit board for the 80 gig
>> > harddrive,
>> > however, she ordered a new hard drive instead by mistake.
>> >
>> > the new hard drive was identical to the MAXTOR diamondmax I had except
>> > that
>> > it was a SATARAID connect instead.
>> >
>> > I then purchased a KOUTECH PSA150 SATARAID internal card and installed
>> > it.
>> > After several days and attempts, I was able to get windows xp to
>> > recognize
>> > the new drive.
>> > I set it up has drive F: and made it active. However, when I attempt
>> > to
>> > make it my primary boot drive, the system does not recognize the drive.
>> > I find the drive in device manager and in my computer folder.
>> > I can write to it, delete from it and whatever. However, I cannot
>> > change
>> > over to the drive and read from it has my primary drive.
>> > I have formatted the drive twice and like I said it works.
>> >
>> >
>> > When I disconnect the 6 gig hard drive with windows on it and attempt
>> > to
>> > boot the system to the install disk for windows xp, it does not see the
>> > sata
>> > hard drive.
>> > My question is how do I get the system to recognize the sata on boot
>> > and
>> > install windows xp and use it primarily.
>> >
>> > I would like to remove the smaller drive and when I get the system
>> > board
>> > for
>> > the maxtor diamondmax plus 9 ide drive I hope to reinstall it an
>> > recover
>> > the
>> > software.
>> >
>> > This would then allow me to have two 80 gig drives that I hope to be
>> > able
>> > to
>> > make into a single 160.
>> > please help

>>