Sata Hard drive not recognized for installing Windows

[Another Person]

Giday

I connected a sata drive for the first time to my Gigabyte 8s661fxm-775 motherboard!

Prior to connection, existing structure with “No Floppy” includes:

C: DISK 0 : NTFS : 40G IDE : Windows XP

D: DVD Drive

G: DISK 1 : NTFS : 40G IDE : “Used for storage”

This now also includes my new Sata hard drive:

E: DISK 2 : NTFS : 80G Sata :

(After formatted to NTFS and assigned the letter E via XP control panel)

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I then disconnected the two IDE Hard drive to simplify installation of Server 03 R2 to the new Sata Hard drive!

Installation failed because windows cannot find the Sata hard drive at installation of Server.

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After learning of this I went to Gigabytes Site and found SiS 964 Preinstall driver made for Floppy, after nLite-ing using the option for add drivers only the resulting windows Server 03 disk still failed, Sata not recognized during install.

Next I downloaded the full motherboard_driver_raid_sis964.exe (5.52M) package to try!

I extracted and explored the package to find:

In the extracted folder "sis180" there is Setup, .cab, .bin, .boot, .ini, .hdr, .iss and 6 folders!

3 of the folders:

180B, 964_180 and 965 that contain INF files for server 03 and other OS

The folder called FloppyImage also contains OS INF files.

Folder "win98me" that contains INF file.

The last folder "RAIDAP" contains subfolders "32bitAP" and "64bitAP" both containing OsStripe.exe and Sraid.exe

I removed the INF files that were included for Floppy use and none Server OS.

(Thinking these would not be needed?)

Using nLite for Sata driver I also removed existing SCSI/RAID with nLite removal feature during the process if this might help?

Again with the same result, here is what nLite says in Last Session_u.ini

[Components]

;# Drivers #

SCSI/RAID

[Drivers]

C:\Documents and Settings\Study\Desktop\SERVER WORK\sis180\180OB\srv2003\SISRaid1.INF,0

C:\Documents and Settings\Study\Desktop\SERVER WORK\sis180\964_180\srv2003\SISRaid.INF,0

C:\Documents and Settings\Study\Desktop\SERVER WORK\sis180\965\srv2003\SISRaid2.INF,0

Should this attempt work or am I making a mistake still, I have been trying to work this out for some time with numerous searches on the subject and would be very appreciative of anybodies knowledge or experience in the correct procedure and required driver configuration or use.

Am I doing this correctly?

Edited April 19, 2009 by Another Person

[jaclaz]

These may be of help:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51140&hl=

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=107504&hl=

Respectively for nvidia and Intel, but the general idea should apply to SiS drivers also.

jaclaz

[johnhc]

Another Person, please attach (not paste) your Last Session.ini. Make sure to always start with a fresh copy of your CD files/folders, do all your work in one nLite session and integrate only one SP. Please report when you have a solution, so others can benefit. Enjoy, John.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

http://america.giga-byte.com/FileList/Driv...sis_964sata.exe you grabbed the wrong package bud.

Take this one and extract with winrar.

put the txtsetup.oem file in the proper os folder (server2003) and choose THAT folder with nlite. When you get the popup select txtmode drivers and off you go!

[Another Person]

http://america.giga-byte.com/FileList/Driv...sis_964sata.exe you grabbed the wrong package bud.

Take this one and extract with winrar.

put the txtsetup.oem file in the proper os folder (server2003) and choose THAT folder with nlite. When you get the popup select txtmode drivers and off you go!

Thank you

How silly, I should have Google-ed txtmode to learn what it meant first.

Anyway I am back to nLite-ing my OS, folders changed with the new files and paused at the nLite options in regards to removing Components

;# Drivers #

SCSI/RAID

Is there any advantage or disadvantage in removal, I am only a bush mechanic not grasping all this fully yet.

UPDATE:

I tried with the correct package, decided not to remove old drivers and Server installed successfully.

On the second boot the new OS failed to boot, system failed to find something but this may well not be related.

Once worked out I will document what I done.

Thanks all

Edited April 20, 2009 by Another Person