What should to do if OS does not recognize SATA drives
Posted in Hard Drive Failure by manyu time 2 Jan
My computer’s motherboard chipset supports RAID function, fitted with a 60GB IDE hard drive, most recently in order to play games, upgraded a 160GB of SATA hard drive, but can not find the hard disk, Windows systems can not be properly installed.
In general, when install DOS/Win98/WinMe system, SATA drives do not need to load any drivers that can be used directly. Win2000/XP/2003 system is installed, if the motherboard Southbridge chip is not provided by the SATA controller set to RAID or RAID in the BIOS, shielded, they can find the hard disk drive; but the hard disk can not be found when open RAID function. RAID in the BIOS at this time will be turned off, and then in the process of installing WinXP, the bottom of the screen displays “Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver” prompt message, immediately press the “F6″ key, and follow the prompts to the system motherboard with the SATA driver floppy disk into the floppy drive, and then press the “S” key to load the necessary drivers.
