Unable to get windows to load on new Sata Drive

Hey all,

I bought a new sata drive put it in and got it set up and started loading windows, Hit F6 and installed the Fastrak326 drivers from floppy, then it went on and formatted the drive and started to load windows. The i get a Windows xp could not find Fasttx2k.sys, .Inf, .cat files on windows cd, if you skip these files windows wont work properly. Which is true i get a *** Stop 0x0000007b etc when it trys to load windows after install.

I have downloaded the newest sata drivers from Biostar website, i have a m7vik mobo. Im not sure what else to do if anyone else has any ideas I would really appreciate it.

THanks

 

Hey thanks for the replys,

I did use the floppy after hitting F6 and it seemed to load the drivers, I not sure if i left the floppy in until reboot i assume i have once or twice since i have tried every way possible to get it working. When it starts to look for the drivers and says it cant find them its looking in the windows cd and there is now way to look anywhere else.

Ill Try to find the raid drivers and install them also, i dont recall seeing them on my biostar mobo CD. I didnt find a place to shut the raid on or off in the bios, Ill try these things you guys posted.

Thanks

 

Well went and did everything everyone has told me to do, still no luck not sure what to do now. I cant find any raid drivers on the board disk or the biostar website, Only drivers are the Serial ata driver pack which has the fastrac326 drivers.

I left the floppy in the whole time and still nothing, There is no on or off for the raid in the bios either checked it throughly. Any other ideas anyone can think of would be great.

well i skipped the files to be loaded by windows for fastrak326 drivers, continued the installation. After i got the error message i loaded up the OS on the IDE drive and manualy put the fasttx2k driver in the Windows\system32\driver folder on the sata drive. Then i rebooted and it went through the install process and then i clicked finished and rebooted and then i got the ***stop error again. IF anyone knows how i can manualy add the drivers and where to please let me know. I dont know what else to do.

 

At the beginning of the Windows install, watch the listing at the bottom of the screen. It will load startup files then it will say "If SCSI controller drivers need to be loaded press..." I think that is what you are looking for. It should then be able to install the drivers from the floppy disk.

This is probably the F6 that you mentioned, but there seems to be something going wrong at that point. Does it appear to load the drivers?

Matt

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841813/en-us

Any help?

Matt

 

No that didnt help, it seems to load the drivers, but for some reason after format it doesnt find them or recongnize them. Says it cant find them on the windows cd. Which actually it should be load already. if you could actually point it to the floppy drive i may be ok, but there is no way to do it.


Dan