problem with sata

[spider12]

i was having trouble with booting up from a sata drive so i put xp home cd in with a floppy that contains a raid driver and chose to install raid drivers from the cd. Will i lose all the info on my sata drive if i install these drivers?

[thevoelk]

You don't want the RAID driver, you want just the SATA driver. SOme controller have both in one, but try looking for just a SAT COntroller driver. RAID is for 2 or more drives acting as one logical drive. What error message were you receiving?

[waheed]

The SATA drivers should have been provided with your motherboard (probably on cd). You will need to use your motherboard CD and create a SATA driver on floppy disk which you can boot from.

Somes motherboards do not require this or already have it installed (as was the case for me).

[thevoelk]

If you do a repair of Windows, you shouldn't lose any info. Honestly, I've re-installed Windows over top of Windows and never lost any user data, just don't format the drive. Whent booting from the CD, you'll have to look at the bottom of the screen for a line that says "Press F6 to install a thrid party SCSI driver" SATA is not SCSI, but that's actually for all Mass Storage Drivers, it's just for add-on controller cards if you're using the boot drive from it. When prompted, put your floppy containg the SATA driver in, make sure the file is unzipped, you should have at least an INF, a SYS, and a CAT file in the root of A:. If you're really up to the process, you can slipstream the driver into the Windows CD and burn a new copy so it will automatically load the next time you need to re-install Windows.