rikkkki Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 I'M BACK!! Hey troops!! How's things? Got a slight problem going here. I put a new mobo in today and missed the "F6" button during re-install, repair of XP for my Sata drivers and now the system is not recognizing my two drives as being Sata drives, duh. And now I have the ever-present icon in my task tray "safely remove hardware" They are listed during post as being third and fourth IDE's. My question is, can I install these drivers WITHOUT running another repair? PS. I'm getting tired of talking to a machine and reading 54 numbers to it and THEN getting a real live person :haha: Activation wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 sata drivers are plug and play, which means they can safely be attached/de-attached from your system while it is running - all you have to do is just install the sata drivers and plug them im Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkkki Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Well, one of the drives is my main hd and the other is my plextor burner. My sata drivers are on a floppy that came with my mobo that make the sata stuff work. This has happened before but I can't remember what I did to fix it. I don't know if I can just unpug my hd and plug it back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 69 RAT i am a bit confused so you have ur system running in ONE HD that is plugged in it must other wise ur system would not work and u got a Plextor burner and then you have an additional 2 SATA HD is this correct ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 Well, one of the drives is my main hd and the other is my plextor burner. My sata drivers are on a floppy that came with my mobo that make the sata stuff work. This has happened before but I can't remember what I did to fix it. I don't know if I can just unpug my hd and plug it back in. does your motherboard require 3rd party SATA drivers, i know mine does and so do many more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkkki Posted February 16, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 16, 2006 Sorry guys. I just read my entry from Sat and it doesn't make too much to me either I was REALLY tired. Anyhow, I was running a repair on XP and missed the F6 key during the beginning of the process of the repair. I installed a new mobo so I had to run the repair. The F6 key is what you hit so that the install allows you to put in the floppy disc at a certain time to install the third party sata drivers during the repair. I missed the F6 and continued with the repair anyhow. I have only two sata drives, one Plextor burner and my HD. Now during post these drives are listed as being IDE's and my system thinks it's a USB or something cause I'm stuck with the icon in my task tray that tells me it's 'safe to remove hardware'. I know I can re-install/repair XP again, but it's a pain doing the Activation thing, especially when you have to talk to a machine and rattle off 54 numbers and letters, and THEN talk to a person to get re-activated. I was just trying to figure out a way of installing the third party drivers whithout having to run another repair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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