Your Computer should have a setting for RAID Autodetect/ATA; that is the ATA compatible setting.
In order for you to use RAID or AHCI you must have the SATA drivers installed. Windows XP setup will only accept these drivers from an internal diskette drive. You can install these drivers either by slipstreaming them into a new installation disk, or by installing Windows XP in RAID Autodetect/ATA mode and using the Update Driver feature of the Device Manager to install the SATA driver.
Osprey, looking in the BIOS I did not see a option to change from SATA/PATA to ATA.
Note the BIOS does have the Seagate Barracuda drive listed. Windows XP does not see the new drive installed when doing the installaiton. So I'm wondering if it is the drive or another hardware/software problem.? the XPS 400 was working great.
DO I need to load the SATA drivers when installing XP? (Hit F6 and have the drivers on a floppy?)
Welcome to the Community. In the Bios under drives you will see Drive 0, Drive 1, on the Drive 0, you should see your seagate drive detected at the bottom, set that to on and let us know if it worked.
Excellent. I went back and re-looked at the BIOS settings and saw the Autodetect/ATA mode, saved it and Windows XP installed. Used the Seagate utilities to try and salvage the original drive but all test fail so I believe it is dead (however I have some linux tools that I'm going to play with).
I also noticed that the BIOS has slipped back into RAID/AHCI mode. So I guess I'm back in SATA mode?!?!
Thanks again everybody for the wonderful support and advice.
jackshack
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July 3rd, 2011 00:00
TechACE;
Your Computer should have a setting for RAID Autodetect/ATA; that is the ATA compatible setting.
In order for you to use RAID or AHCI you must have the SATA drivers installed. Windows XP setup will only accept these drivers from an internal diskette drive. You can install these drivers either by slipstreaming them into a new installation disk, or by installing Windows XP in RAID Autodetect/ATA mode and using the Update Driver feature of the Device Manager to install the SATA driver.
osprey4
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July 1st, 2011 17:00
Hi TechACE,
Try setting the BIOS to ATA mode.
TechACE
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July 2nd, 2011 09:00
Osprey, looking in the BIOS I did not see a option to change from SATA/PATA to ATA.
Note the BIOS does have the Seagate Barracuda drive listed. Windows XP does not see the new drive installed when doing the installaiton. So I'm wondering if it is the drive or another hardware/software problem.? the XPS 400 was working great.
DO I need to load the SATA drivers when installing XP? (Hit F6 and have the drivers on a floppy?)
Thanks...
ACExpert
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July 2nd, 2011 10:00
Hi TechAce,
Welcome to the Community. In the Bios under drives you will see Drive 0, Drive 1, on the Drive 0, you should see your seagate drive detected at the bottom, set that to on and let us know if it worked.
Thank you
Royan
TechACE
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July 4th, 2011 05:00
Excellent. I went back and re-looked at the BIOS settings and saw the Autodetect/ATA mode, saved it and Windows XP installed. Used the Seagate utilities to try and salvage the original drive but all test fail so I believe it is dead (however I have some linux tools that I'm going to play with).
I also noticed that the BIOS has slipped back into RAID/AHCI mode. So I guess I'm back in SATA mode?!?!
Thanks again everybody for the wonderful support and advice.
Happy 4th.
TechACE