Dipper14

After all that I forgot to mention I do not have a floppy drive. edit- i believe it detects it it says that theres a ST drive under primary master or something, and in boot order it says something along the lines of Hdd1 or something

Well I followed a guide to try and setup windows on my SATA hard drive on the A8V motherboard. When going to install windows, it did not recognize that I had a hard drive installed. So I tried using the F6 method, but when I inserted the cd-rom that came with the hard drive it did nothing. So I went only searching for a way to install my hard drive, I found a guide and found out about nlite. For the past several hours, I have tried burning several cd's to attempt to get one that will work. I am able to go through the whole process of copying the windows cd, integrating a driver, and creating an iso then burning the iso onto a blank cd. The cd that I make is bootable, but still does not detect the hard drive. This leads me to believe that I am selecting the wrong driver. I am unsure about which driver to select, but I chose one on each disc. Heres a little info about my system (if it helps to choose the correct driver) Windows XP Professional Asus A8V motherboard Amd 3800x2 cpu 2 x 512 mb generic ram x1600 pro ati sapphire video card 320 GB Seagate SATA hard drive (this is what I am trying to install windows on) The first driver that I used was from the Asus site, I navigated to motherboard, socket 939, and then A8V. I then selected RAID and got the latest driver. The driver was called VIA VT6420 (VT8237) SATA RAID Driver Package Version 2.20D WHQL. I download that extracted it and on nlite I selected multiple driver folder and selected the folder, and multiple options came up. This is where I really am unsure what to do, I picked the one that looked the most correct (there were about 20 options, but 10 of those were PIDE so those were out of the question) There were really 2 that looked correct, 1 in the folder VIARAID220D/VIARAID/SATA/driver/Winxp (this is the one I chose to use) and one in VIARAID220D/VIARAID/Driverdisk/Winxp . You can see the list of options that came up here: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4937/whatdriver2nr9.jpg The second driver that I used was from the VIA site, going to the VIA Arena for drivers to Win XP, IDE, Raid, SATA, then to VT8237 Integrated Serial ATA RAID controller. I downloaded the file at the top of this page: http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageI...mp;SubCatID=143 , so I picked the multiple file driver on nLite and several options came up. The list of options that come up can be seen here: http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8630/whatdriver1ft0.jpg, I tried the highlighted one but that didnt work. Well needless to say I am pretty clueless about picking the proper driver, I assumed that you need only 1, but maybe you need 2 or something to get it to work. I'm fairly certain that the 2 drivers that I downloaded off of ASUS and VIA's website are the proper ones for my computer, however I am unsure which one I am supposed to integrate. I tried to make this post as extensive as possible about what I attempted, so that it might be easier to help me. If you could help me by explaining to me what I am doing wrong/what driver to pick, you would really be helping me out, and I thank you in advance for any help you can possibly lend to me.