WIndows XP Installation

[p7s7x9]

Hi. I tried to reformat my PC with Windows XP, but when it was still setting up, it says that Windows cannot find a hard disk installed, then reboots the computer with a 15 second countdown. I boot it up normally, and I'm able to access the old Windows XP normally. What is wrong? Why can't I format my hard disk?

P.S. My hard disk is SATA.

[TechFind]

Windows XP do not include drivers for sata disks, so you have two options:

1) You make a floppy disk with the drivers for sata disks or

2) You integrate sata drivers in winXp CD with nlite or similar.

[p7s7x9]

Windows XP do not include drivers for sata disks...

1) You make a floppy disk with the drivers for sata disks

How do I do this? Where do I get the driver?

[TechFind]

According to chipshet of motherboard, go to chipshet's site and download the latest.

[IcemanND]

There is a third possible option though not available on all systems. In the BIOS check for a setting for the SATA controller to change it from AHCI to Compatibility mode.

Otherwise add SATA drivers to the textmode portion of your CD.

[Kindovic]

erm, is there any performance difference between AHCI and IDE mode??

[IcemanND]

The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a hardware mechanism that allows software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices (such as host bus adapters) that are designed to offer features not offered by Parallel ATA (PATA) controllers, such as hot-plugging and native command queuing.

Compatibility or IDE mode makes the system present the SATA controller to the OS as a standard IDE controller.