My new SATA2 Hard drive will not install properly.?

Question

I am building a pc and I am having trouble with installing windows xp on my new sata2 harddrive. I downloaded the drivers required for my mobo and unziped them but its just a 6mb exe file. how in the heck can you put that on a floppy for windows install to load drivers. and then I downloaded the sata2 RAID drivers, which are acutal drivers. But when I tell windows install to look for them and use them, my 500GB harddrive is only read a 131062MB, and no other space is detected for partitioning etc. I think using the raid drivers are the wrong ones to use but I dont know what else to do?? I want to use all the space obviously, but all the message boards are not helping. Whats going on here?? my mobo is http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P43Twins1600&s=775

help?

Answer 1

I have a SATA drive in my computer and all  did was boot from windows Install disk and when asked what I wanted to do I pressed D for delete the F for format using quick NTFS file system and carried on from there

No Trouble at all

Answer 2

Do it like this:



Write XP to a CD.

Open the BIOS and set boot priority (1st theCD)

Restart with XP CD in.

Format your drive and make a new parcel.

Install XP.

Install all the driver's for the motherboard

You will have NO problems this way.