Windows 7 serial ata controller driver install#
Windows 7 serial ata controller driver drivers#
Windows 7 serial ata controller driver driver#

NT-based operating systems are not capable of accessing SATA drives using BIOS int13 calls, so it is required that you feed them the SATA driver during installation, or you set the SATA controller to IDE-compatible mode in the bios before you start the installation. This will be a slower way to access the drive, but it is a valid way to access it and no harm will be done by it.

Windows 7 serial ata controller driver drivers#

Until the system has the sata drivers installed, win-98 will be accessing the drive in DOS-compatible mode (ie - using BIOS int13 routines). If you've set the SATA mode correctly in the bios, your SATA controller should be detected as a 'SCSI' controller by win-98 (or - it will appear as a SCSI controller in Device Manager).

Windows 7 serial ata controller driver install#

Now after windows has been installed, and after you've installed the drivers for the motherboard and video card, you will install the drivers for the SATA controller (or - that might be done as part of the motherboard driver installation). At that point, insert your win-98 CD and install Windows 98. When all that is done, you should have DOS access to your CD drive.

Copy other files (like himem.sys, smartdrv.exe, mscdex.exe, emm386.exe) onto the hard drive and construct your autoexec.bat and config.sys files accordingly. When you're finished, the system should be able to boot off the hard drive directly into DOS. Use the format /s to make the drive bootable. The that you use should have a file-date of May 2000. Run Fdisk and partition the SATA drive, then run format and format the drive. Then boot a floppy that's been formatted using win-98 and that includes the typical system files (format, fdisk). *DO NOT* set it to IDE / Compatibility mode. When you install Win-98 on a system that has a SATA drive, you will first set the SATA mode in the motherboard bios. You will not need any third-party driver. WD 160GB SATA Drive (SATA-0 on via controller)ДЄ 10GB Maxtor ATA66 drive was also used for the installation i tried to clone, it was IDE-0 Master on the controller QDI Advance 5/133e Motherboard (VIA Apollo Pro 693a Chipset)Д¬heap 48x CDROM (Primary Master on Motherboard) Sorry for how badly this post is written, but english is not my first language the bios is set to boot from CDROM, SCSI, A But I've thought wrong: it hangs after the motherboard BIOS has loaded the controller bios, just after the second screen of an award bios post (where there is a table that makes a simple list of the hardware, the bios lists all the used IRQs and check the cdrom drive for a bootable media). However, since DOS/Windows 9x boots on almost every controller, i thought 'nevermind, i'll just install it on a ide disk, install the via drivers and then use acronis or dd to clone the install on the sata disk'. only see the IDE disks connected on the motherboard and the ones connected to the IDE channel on the VIA controller. This controller have drivers for windows 98, but i don't think the setup can accept them with something like NT's F6 floppy, so fdisk & co. on a Sata disk, connected to the SATA-0 port of a VIA VT6421a controller (i know that, like the 90% of chips made by via, it is not the best thing on the market, but for only 15в‚¬ you can't have much) sorry for my first post to be a help request,