spasblitz

I just built a new system for a friend, its a SOYO KT600 dragon board with a duron 1.8AMD processor. im using a 40gb SATA drive (my first time stepping away from IDE....

Well, during boot up it recognizes the drive, i boot to the w2k pro CD, wait, and when i hit enter to install w2k now, it says i don't have a hard drive installed.

Do I need something special for win2kpro to use a SATA drive? or do i have a bios setting wrong?

other info...

DVD/CDRW combo drive on IDE1 master (working fine)
3.5 floppy (working fine)

nothing else is on system, its all brand new stuff.

Any suggestions would be great, thanks

cyrnel

While the Win2K CD is booting it'll mention to press F6 to install 3rd party/SCSI drivers. That's you. Before trying again copy the driver to a floppy. The Dragon SATA driver should be on the CD, or better, download the latest release from <a href="http://www.soyousa.com/downloads/">soyousa.com.</a>

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MikeSty

Make sure you have the power in. Apparently, a lot of people think it is supposed to draw power from the motherboard.