Sorry John what instructions?.......... I get exactly what you said... I
followed it... I simply am unable to go furthur than the screen
above...... how can I fix a drive my system is NOT seeing???? and there
are NO drivers available to run it?? according to Vista Disc....

Hmmm.....

Asus nor Via have answers to solve my issue either..... so how can
following any instructions fix something that cannot be fixed??

I have two choices... Do a clean install of Vista..... on Sata drive or
Buy another working IDE...... the second choice is cheaper , easier and
quicker....

Sorry if you feel I wasnt following instructions, but if you read my
full posts you will see I did everything suggested... but of no use if
system refuses to find drivers to RUN SATA which has the operating
system on....which needs the repair..... ASUS and VIA forums are full of
this problem with "OLDER" motherboards.....


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GrimReaperUK

Grim,
I know this is months after the fact, but I think the problem you were
experiencing was from how your BIOS was set. A couple things to consider are

Was the SATA ports on MB specifically for raid use only? Some ASUS boards
had SATA ports, but they were designed only for RAID use. Maybe yours was one
of these. If Not, then you must direct your BIOS to recognize the SATA drives
over the IDE; and this is usually on ASUS boards in a different spot then
changing Boot Priority. You change boot Priority after you point the BIOS to
the correct drive interface you want to use. Some ASUS boards you choose IDE
or SATA, or if you have to choose to use the RAID controller to use the SATA
drives then you access your hard drive control via the RAID controller not
the BIOS. Maybe you overlooked this part when you were trying to use the
drive and putting raid controllers drivers in, but you never got into the
raid controller console to change settings.

If your MB did not require the use of RAID controller to use your SATA
drives, and you didn't have a RAID set up, then there was no need to go that
direction. instead you again needed to adjust your IDE/SATA settings under
your BIOS.

In the Future, I wouldn't expect too much from the End User Support via
ASUS. They aren't known for being very helpful to end users. ASUS has Great
Product, I'll buy ASUS every time, but if i want help, I'll go someplace else
first.




"GrimReaperUK" wrote:


Sorry John what instructions?.......... I get exactly what you said... I
followed it... I simply am unable to go furthur than the screen
above...... how can I fix a drive my system is NOT seeing???? and there
are NO drivers available to run it?? according to Vista Disc....

Hmmm.....

Asus nor Via have answers to solve my issue either..... so how can
following any instructions fix something that cannot be fixed??

I have two choices... Do a clean install of Vista..... on Sata drive or
Buy another working IDE...... the second choice is cheaper , easier and
quicker....

Sorry if you feel I wasnt following instructions, but if you read my
full posts you will see I did everything suggested... but of no use if
system refuses to find drivers to RUN SATA which has the operating
system on....which needs the repair..... ASUS and VIA forums are full of
this problem with "OLDER" motherboards.....


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GrimReaperUK