SATA HDD not detected?!

[London Geezer]

Right,

Got my new PC last week, and yesterday i got my copy of WindowsXP 64-bit Edition Upgrade (the trial one). I currently have WinXP Professional.

Tried to install it, but the setup won't detect my hard drive. Which is impossible since my PC is working mighty fine as it is.

The HDD is a SATA, the motherboard is a GB K8T-something, the AMD64 based one.

During setup, Win will ask me to press F6 if i want to setup a 3rd party SATA HDD, which i did, but then it comes back saying i need a floppy with the drivers. Which i only just found so i'll try this when i get home tonight. The thing is, if my PC is working fine now as it is, it means it already has the proper drivers, so why is the upgrade not detecting it?

As i said i could only fiddle around for a few minutes last night, will check this out properly during the weekend...

But am i missing something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

(or i'll just forget about this bloody WinXP-64, although it would have been nice to try it out)

 

[Joe DeFuria]

You will need 64 bit SATA controller drivers.

All the drivers that came with your MOBO are likely useless. You'll have to check with your mobo or chipset manufacturer to see if they have 64 bit drviers for their SATA interface available.

 

[London Geezer]

You will need 64 bit SATA controller drivers.

All the drivers that came with your MOBO are likely useless. You'll have to check with your mobo or chipset manufacturer to see if they have 64 bit drviers for their SATA interface available.

Been looking around, but i can't find any... on the Gygabyte website there's nothing...

Which is weird, i mean if they make an athlon64 compatible MB, they should think about the people wanting to get Win64...

And does that mean i will have to get 64bit drivers for every single component and peripheral i have? (DVDRW, bloody mouse, bloody keyboard, EVERYTHING?!?!)

 

[jpaana]

The OS comes with some drivers already, but SATA, audio, lan etc. might need more drivers. http://www.planetamd64.com/ is a good place to start hunting.

 

[Tim Murray]

hm, I thought you could use some 32-bit drivers with WinXP AMD64. apparently, I was sadly mistaken.

 

[Zaphod]

Do you have a nForce3 or VIA chipset board?

For the VIA chipsets you can get the driver here, but you will have to install the OS on a P-ATA IDE drive as they only support SATA *after* the OS is installed.

The nForce3 boards probably use a Silicon Image controller. Beta drivers are available here.

 

[London Geezer]

Do you have a nForce3 or VIA chipset board?

For the VIA chipsets you can get the driver here, but you will have to install the OS on a P-ATA IDE drive as they only support SATA *after* the OS is installed.

The nForce3 boards probably use a Silicon Image controller. Beta drivers are available here.

I have a VIA, and yes i find it funny how you need 64-bit drivers BEFORE installing the thing.. I mean, Couldn't they include any kind of 64-bit drivers in the OS setup already? And what's with the S-ATA unfriendliness? Do they expect people to keep using IDE drives forever? Especially seen how this 64bit OS is aimed at professional people and systems, who MIGHT want the best (or at least something younger than 20 years hardware) in their systems....

Don't know, i find it pretty ridiculous....

Anyway, i'll wait to install this until things have settled, in the end it's a 360 days trial so the more i wait the more i can use it for... No point in starting using it now if it's unstable because of immature drivers...

(I already downloaded any kind of 64bit driver i could find around, but i'm still not gonna di it unless some of u guys tell me "it's ok" to do it, if u know what i mean.... I heard very bad things with regards to instability, and i NEED stability while working, Maya is already quite moody as it is now, god knows what would happen with a new layer of instability on it!!! )