Asus A8V Deluxe and a SATA Raptor Hard drive (150g)

[Sharpe]

Hi, I have recently bought a WD Raptor 150g not long after upgrading my AGP graphics card to a Bliss 7800GS 512mg (kinda wishing now I'd just bought new mobo-pci-E)

But when booting pc and hitting delete to go to bios.....it is not detected?? i have tried lots of different things in the bios to try to get it to detect but no joy at all, have also tried hooking up my friends sata hdd which is a normal speed hdd but same prob....not detected??

Can anyone tell me how to get it detected as i would really like the raptor as my main hdd, i tried putting my raptor hdd in my friends and it was detected right away so the hdd seems to be fine just not with my mobo? i am using the latest bios (1017)

Any help would be much appreciated, i know i should really be on a pci-e system but as I'm not at the mo........HELP

If i boot up with my original ide drive and the new sata connected......in admin tools, disc management it is there but not in bios so i can't format with windows the new hdd.

[chillinwitchu]

i have the same board.
i had the same problem.
in fact, this same problem is why i joined this forum months ago. there are two methods.
the first is the easiest if it works for you.
i hope this helps.




*****FIRST CONFIGURATION**********************EASIEST WAY**************************

The steps are not that difficult once you know how:

1) Plug in 1 sata hdd to the first plug in the mother board with sata cable (see motherboard instructions)

2) Enter Bios, choose boot mode: 1) floppy, 2) cd, 3) hdd. At this point, my hdd was recongized by the bios (a good sign).

3) Disable Promise Raid stuff, enable BootRom thing (I forget the exact wording) - this will enable you to use the VIA raid driver from asus web site, recommended over the Promoise raid driver for speed improvements.

4) Install XP, hit F6 when it asks (bottom of screen), then type “S” to specify the driver for the hdd.

This is where it got tricky for me, I only had the ASUS CD which came with the motherboard, and XP wouldn’t read from it. So I had to buy a floppy drive Then went to asus web site, and found the Via Raid drive (7mb) zip file and extracted it to c:\temp on my win2k box. There is a utility in there somewhere called “MakeDisk.exe”, just run that with a floppy in your floppy drive, and it’ll create the driver disk. Go back into the XP Install, hit F6, then S, and then insert the floppy, just choose the right driver (it should be obvious). Whallah, XP now recongizes the sata hdd so it can then format and install.








*****SECOND CONFIGURATION*************HARDER WAY****************MORE STEPS INVOLVED***************


Remember, this is for the ASUS A8V mobo with an 'independent', aka single, SATA drive and another IDE drive connected to the mobo. You want to make the SATA drive the boot drive with XP on it when XP is already on the other IDE drive's active first partition (the XP default install) - my situation.

1) Connect SATA drive to red Promise SATA1 connector
2) Connect IDE drive to blue Primary IDE connector
3) Mobo BIOs set to:
OnChip SATA - Enabled (so Promise controller will work)
OnBoard Promise Controller - Enabled; Operating Mode - OnBoard IDE Operation
4) If using XP already, add Promise IDE (SATA378) and SATA (Fasttrak) drivers, add VIA SATA drivers via Device Manager (I suggest XP will ask you to reinstall the OS after changing mobo or mobo, CPU, memory, etc., and you can hit F6 to add the SCSI, aka SATA, drivers during the XP install)
5) Use Partition Magic to create an active partition on the SATA drive (May have to use PM boot disk to do this if XP and PM are not loaded on the IDE drive)
6) Use Drive Image's 'Copy Disk' function to copy installed XP partition from IDE drive to SATA drive (again, may have to use DI boot disk if XP and program are not loaded on IDE drive)
7) Edit boot.ini (Control Panel, System, Advanced, Startup and Recovery Settings, System Startup, Default Operating System, edit) to default to SATA drive (typically drive1). My default setting, after editing, = "default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDO WS" meaning boot to Windows on the first partition, partition(1) on the SATA drive, rdisk(1).
8) Uncheck 'time to display list of operating systems' or set to 0 seconds; XP will not show the OS choice screen, but will boot immediately to the OS on your SATA drive
9) Delete (or hide) active, first partition with XP on it from IDE drive. This may leave only one choice in new boot.ini - defaulting to the SATA drive. If both IDE and SATA choices remain, so what? I've not tried this partition delete yet, but will soon. I'll use IDE for data storage, etc.; no OS, no programs.

(IF you are adding the SATA drive as the only drive on the system, just create an active first partition on the SATA drive, then install XP, remembering to hit F6 and add the SCSI, aka SATA, driver during the new install.)


chillinwitchu

[iam8up]

I actually have the exact same motherboard and hard drive.

While every single time I have formatted my machine I have done those above steps, using a floppy drive to specify the drivers, I have never had a problem with the RAID configuration or the hard drive getting detected.

Since my format last weekend I have since learned that there is another option, to integrate the "massive storage drivers" into the XP install disk itself. For more information on there, go here:

http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/

You will need to use the utility at the bottom, DriverPacks BASE, as well as the DriverPack MassStorage.

It has a quick to learn interface, very much worth you time. I have yet to use the other driver packs, but I don't see why they couldn't be as, if not more, useful =)

[Sharpe]

all sorted and working now, thanks alot guys, i used a floppy which i borrowed off my mate, just was shocked that you have to use a floppy in this day and age but all is sweet now, thanks again.