Question About SATA DVD-RW And OS Installation

If the BIOS recognizes the SATA DVD then the installation will
work.......98% of the time
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<soinie RemoveThis @hhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> If I'm using a sata dvd rw drive and am installing a windows operating
> system using the sata drive, will the installation recognize the
> drive, or will I need to boot up with dos and load the sata drivers
> before the OS installation? Thanks
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:45:30 GMT, soinie.RemoveThis@hhotmail.com wrote:

>If I'm using a sata dvd rw drive and am installing a windows operating
>system using the sata drive, will the installation recognize the
>drive, or will I need to boot up with dos and load the sata drivers
>before the OS installation? Thanks

Just curious about how you would load Windows drivers in DOS. What
would you be loading them into??? I've never seen SATA RAID drivers
for DOS. Even if there were, and you installed DOS and those drivers,
the Windows DVD would never see them because you'd have to boot the
computer from the DVD.

On most motherboards, even Windows drivers aren't needed for SATA
drives during Windows installation UNLESS you've mounted a RAID array
in BIOS before starting the installation. XP and Vista have their own
SATA IDE drivers, so installation proceeds transparently. Although
some folks with nVidia chipsets like to load the nForce SATA IDE
drivers for their non-RAID systems, doing that isn't mandatory.

Let us know how you come out with this.

Ron
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:41:53 -0500, milleron <nospam RemoveThis @nospam.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:45:30 GMT, soinie RemoveThis @hhotmail.com wrote:
>
>>If I'm using a sata dvd rw drive and am installing a windows operating
>>system using the sata drive, will the installation recognize the
>>drive, or will I need to boot up with dos and load the sata drivers
>>before the OS installation? Thanks
>
>Just curious about how you would load Windows drivers in DOS. What
>would you be loading them into??? I've never seen SATA RAID drivers
>for DOS. Even if there were, and you installed DOS and those drivers,
>the Windows DVD would never see them because you'd have to boot the
>computer from the DVD.
>
>On most motherboards, even Windows drivers aren't needed for SATA
>drives during Windows installation UNLESS you've mounted a RAID array
>in BIOS before starting the installation. XP and Vista have their own
>SATA IDE drivers, so installation proceeds transparently. Although
>some folks with nVidia chipsets like to load the nForce SATA IDE
>drivers for their non-RAID systems, doing that isn't mandatory.
>
>Let us know how you come out with this.
>
>Ron

Thank you all for the replies. I wasn't sure if Windows would install
a sata driver during OS installation. I have one machine with a Siig
PCI card that the hard drive is connected to and I need to load
drivers for the card in order for it to be recognized so the OS can
find the HD, and I wasn't sure if it was the same deal with a SATA
DVD-RW.
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