Installation of a new 2.5" SATA 160 GB in Gateway notebook.

[Shokugan]

This month I bought a new Gateway with a 100 GB SATA and a Japanese OS. I had intended to repartition and add an English OS as well、but ran into trouble. So I decided to start again with a new 160 Hitachi SATA, do everything from scratch and use the original 100 GB disk as an external for backup. However....
The BIOS recognises the HDD ok, but when I try to load Windows (SP2) it does not recognise a HDD as being present. The computer doesn't have a floppy.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

 

[ktr]

you will need to find the sata drivers and preload them (f6) before windows does a hard drive scan to find a physical hdd to install to.

 

[neo1uk]

i thurt windows installed all formats and types of hdd including loads of overs of course
curect me if i am rong

 

[neo1uk]

well not all forats just mainley ntfs and ntfs5

 

[ktr]

i thurt windows installed all formats and types of hdd including loads of overs of course
curect me if i am rong

Not to be rude, but your English in horrible, I don't know if you are doing this on purpose, but I recommend to use some education that you may have obtained...makes you sound illiterate.

SATA and SCSI differ from your average ide, therefore you require driver to be loaded before hand to see the hdd behind them.

 

[ktr]

read this...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314859

gives you the reason.

 

[Shokugan]

Thanks　ktr, I had already thought somewhere along those lines. However there a few problems: On Hitachi`s web site
“Our hard disk drives use the disk controller device drivers that are embedded within the operating system. Therefore, you don't need to download a driver. We do not provide these drivers separately, since the driver is already included as part of the operating system. “

The original drivers supplied with the Gateway computer don’t seem to include a SATA driver (the original HDD was a 100 GB SATA) and more to the point when I press (F6) Windows goes looking for a floppy and spits the dummy when there isn’t one.

Sorry to sound stupid, but I am when it comes to issues like this!

 

[Deleted member 3]

The harddrive doesn't require a driver indeed, the controller does. Find the correct driver and add it to your Windows disk using nLite or such (since you have no floppy)

 

[neo1uk]

sorry about english but i am dislexics and yes u maybe right i was just offering what i know about SATA and SCSI and thats not much ovusley i am just a daft twat
and next time i will keep my mouth shut sorry again :O(

 

[ktr]

The harddrive doesn't require a driver indeed, the controller does. Find the correct driver and add it to your Windows disk using nLite or such (since you have no floppy)

that was what i was gonna say

basically you have to make a custom XP installer with your sata driver already in the driver list(and other drivers to make it easier).

good luck!

 

[ktr]

sorry about english but i am dislexics and yes u maybe right i was just offering what i know about SATA and SCSI and thats not much ovusley i am just a daft twat
and next time i will keep my mouth shut sorry again :O(

sorry to hear, i understand

 

[neo1uk]

lol so i was half right hehe