new windows install onto an ata drive help needed

thetourist

cannot get windows to recognise my ata controler ( promise376) - i have the correct drivers and at the start of the installation i hit f6 followed by 'S' to setup the drivers and all seems to work fine - windows even starts to format the drive for me but at the end of the format it asks me to put the disk labled "Promise FastTrak TX 2100 Family Driver Diskette" into drive A !! and hit enter - i have scoured the internet looking for anything which might help and i am now at a dead loss - has anyone any ideas - i am puzzled for 3 reasons mainly - why is the label so long - why would it need the drivers again - how would it have been able to do a format on the drive if the drivers hadn't been working in the first place?
thanks

kaizersoze

Have you more than 1 SATA drive installed/connected?
If so disconnect the one you don't want to install windows on.
If you still have a problem disable RAID in the BIOS aswell.

thetourist

thanks - tried those - neither worked

i am a bit confused - the ata controler is the same as the raid controler (ie it's called the sata/raid controler ) - but i dont need raid at all - i just want two hard drives - in fact i just need one first - so when i turned off raid in the bios the drive didnt appear any more in the windows setup

but the mobo ( asus p4s8x ) manual says nothing about using 1 hard drive - and nothing at all about using the sata for anything other than raid arrays. i'm beginning to wonder if it is even possible to do this -- do you know ??

also i dont understand do the drives need to be jumpered to master slave or not - one of the ports is marked primary on the mobo and that's all i'm going by?

lastly i have this thing called fasttrack that i get into at the very start after post by hitting crtl-f and it's for setting up raid arrays and if i dont have the drive setup in there somehow then it doesnt appear either

thetourist

thanks - tried those - neither worked

i am a bit confused - the ata controler is the same as the raid controler (ie it's called the sata/raid controler ) - but i dont need raid at all - i just want two hard drives - in fact i just need one first - so when i turned off raid in the bios the drive didnt appear any more in the windows setup

but the mobo ( asus p4s8x ) manual says nothing about using 1 hard drive - and nothing at all about using the sata for anything other than raid arrays. i'm beginning to wonder if it is even possible to do this -- do you know ??

also i dont understand do the drives need to be jumpered to master slave or not - one of the ports is marked primary on the mobo and that's all i'm going by?

lastly i have this thing called fasttrack that i get into at the very start after post by hitting crtl-f and it's for setting up raid arrays and if i dont have the drive setup in there somehow then it doesnt appear either

thanks for helping me out

thetourist

sorry for double posting - anyway after hours and hours of trying everything i finally discovered that there was some kind of error in the drivers which i got with the motherboard even though they had allowed me to use an sata drive for storage the error only occurred when i tried to install an op sys on it - so i just picked a set of new drivers at random from the 20 or so on driverguide and it worked and im not asking any more questions - hindsight is a great thing !!

ps still had to define the raid arrays though (to get windows to see the drives) even though i'm not using them ?

thanks again