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Windows XP/2000 - [Fixed] Can't format my drive posted in the Operating Systems forums; I have Sata drives and I didnt need any extra drivers. If your board supports them it will have its own. Go into bios and make sure SATA detection is ...

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I have Sata drives and I didnt need any extra drivers. If your board supports them it will have its own. Go into bios and make sure SATA detection is on


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hm i couldnt find sata options in the bios... Anyway I'll look into it

Hm when my pc starts up it sais something about a RAID utillity, does this have anything to do with this?
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Ok now I found out that the motherboard cd has some drivers, but how do I install them? They can be seen on the image

The Silicon Image Serial ATA driver gives me a txt readme file which says
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1) Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000/XP Fresh Installation
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Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new
installation of Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP, and you wish to
boot from a device attached to the SiI 3112 controller.


1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SiI 3112
controller and insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power up
the system.

2. Put your Windows NT/2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or
the NT/2000/XP boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your
system cannot boot from the CD.

3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning
of text mode installation. Press 's' when setup asks if you want to
specify an additional device, and insert the diskette labeled
'Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Driver Installation Disk' .

Press 'Enter' and select
'Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller'

4. Press 'Enter' to continue on with text mode setup.

5. Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for
partition and file system.

6. After setup examines your disks, it will copy files to
Windows 2000 installation folders and restart the system.
The setup program will continue and finish the installation
after restart.

7. Wait until Windows 2000 finishes installing devices, regional
settings, networking settings, components, and final set of
tasks, reboot the system if it is required.

8. See instructions in section 4 to verify controller was installed
correctly.
But I can't find such a diskette. The utility on the other hand simply installs on the HD in windows and I have no idea how to use it or what it does...
Btw this is the content of the motherboard cd. Ignore the name of the cd cause my pc has problems with this, and simply keeps the name of the 1st cd I put in at startup
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Try this driver:
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File Type: zip 3112_x86_rdvr_logo_10050.zip (129.7 KB, 4 views)


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IT WORKED IT WORKED thanks Hengis you are the best (+ tech point :P) Finally I formated my pc and got linux & win


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