SATA Driving You Crazy?Why can't get my windows system to recognize my new SATA drive? Serial ATA (SATA) is a new, fast, low-cost disk drive standard, but Windows doesn't come with device drivers for Serial ATA drives. Without the proper drivers installed, your system can't recognize a SATA drive. This is made worse by the fact that Windows expects you to install the new drivers from a floppy rather than a CD like the rest of the Windows installation procedure. This is problematic on some systems that don't include floppy disk drives. The first step is to get the right drivers. SATA drivers generally come with your SATA drive or on the driver CD that came with your motherboard. However, SATA is so new that the drivers are evolving rapidly. Your best bet is to check the manufacturer's Web site and download the latest versions of the drivers. These will usually be in a zip file. Create a folder for them and unzip them to the folder. Then load them onto a floppy disk. If your computer doesn't have a floppy disk drive, copy them to a writeable CD. If this is a brand, new drive for your system and you will be installing a fresh copy of Windows XP, you'll want to follow these steps. During the initial portion of the Windows Set-Up, there will be a point where a message flashes on the screen telling to you press F6 if you have new devices to install. The message scrolls past quickly, so be alert for it. Pressing F6 will give you the opportunity to install your new drivers. When you do this, be sure to disable any IDE disks on your system so that Windows will boot from the SATA drive. There are a couple of things to watch out for in installing a SATA drive. Some motherboards have more than one SATA controller and you need to make sure you configure the drivers to the correct one.
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