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Old November 1st, 2004 Top | #1
 
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Default Help finding Western Digital Sata drivers for installing windows XP
I currently have 2 computers the mother boards in each are

ASUS SK8N
ASUS A7N-8X

The western digital hard drives are all S-ATA drives connected to the motherboard when I tried to format both computers windows xp ask me for the drivers for it. I can't seem to tell where to find them and I tried western digital site and am totally confused and lost.

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There should be a floppy that came with your mobo

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http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....aXZlcnM*&p_li=

this should help

edit 2:
SK8N drivers:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/downl...ModelName=SK8N

A7N-8X drivers:
http://usa.asus.com/support/download...odelName=A7N8X
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yes, CHiLLaXen is absolutely correct, you "should" have recieved a floppy with your motherboard that contains the drivers for your sata control, be that southbridge or 3rd party raid chip. Failing that im sure your motherboard manufacturer will have the latest release of the drivers on their homepage under support somewhere
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I kno for mine I had to make one, there was a txt file to describe it to you. Alhto I just build a comp for a friend and just had to copy the drives off the cd to a floppy.

And it wouldnt be the hard drive drivers, u need drivers for your SATA controller.
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AM is correct,

For the SCSI/SATA drivers for your mobo, follow the directions in your manual to copy the right drivers for the SATA controller onto a floppy.

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