installing an os in a sata hard drive

[erwin_rommel]

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mga bro, ask unta ko if unsa on pag install sa os sa sata nga harddisk w/o installing a sata driver. hasol man gud kaayo kay need pa ka og floppy drive inig butang sa os sa sata hard drive. dili man gud mu tiwas og install ang os if dili i install ang driver. except nuun sa intel og nforce 4 chipset kay ma detect ra automatically pero sa uban chipsets kay mag need man gyud og driver.

[cooldude06]

Unsa diay model anang imong motherboard bro? Usually, automatic ra man unta na ma-detect ang SATA hard drive, no need pa ka sa driver kay mag-install pa man kaha ka ug sugod sa OS?

[butitoy]

read ur manual about bios settings.

[AI_03]

Check sa imo bios setting. Naa ka i set ana refer sa motherboard manual nimo.

[grss1982]

It would really help to know kung unsay model no. sa imong motherboard.

Most of todays motherboard feature a "NATIVE" SATA, which does not require the floppy disk drivers.

Pero some older boards, IIRC, like the original ASUS P4PE Deluxe or ASUS P4S8X Deluxe and even the P4G8X use a somewhat separate controller like the brand Silicon Image, whcih would require the floppy disk drivers.

Maybe the other more experinced PC enthusiats here at istorya can give more details. :mrgreen:

[obemon]

^^Correct. Connecting a SATA drive to a standard SATA controller shouldn't require a driver during OS installation. However like you said, some motherboards offer some sort of a SATA_RAID controller in which you do need a driver when you have a hard drive(s) connected to it (regardless if you configured it as a SATA RAID or just a JBOD).

[ryan22]

depende bro if imo mobo has a native sata support den plug & play na ang hdd, i tried it with mobo nga walay native support so i still need to install the driver from the floppy, also try to check bios settings for SATA OPERATION.

[Wyrdo]

try to disable the raid functionality in your bios settings, this will allow the os to be directly installed on your sata drive without requiring you a fdd.. hope this helps

[[DSX]]

hmm abi ko basta SATA you need the disk gyud coz SATA drives are considered as SCSI drives by windows. In my GA-965P-DS3 mobo, even if naay setting for SATA in IDE mode, I still have to install the controller else it would not recognize the drive.

[mabolo_tree]

sa akong bahin ug sa akong nabasa sa inyong mga reply kaniya, sakto mo tanan mga bro. :mrgreen: