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Just bought a Seagate Barracuda 500gig drive and it says I need to get SATA host drivers for it to be compatible. Why can't this shit be easy??? It says I need to get it off the CD that came with my motherboard....the mobo I bought 3 years ago which I can't find.

I went to ASUS website but don't know what to download. Is it a BIOS flash? ROM image? Seagate website has nothing. What can I do? Running Win7, ASUS M4A79 Deluxe board with AMD Phenom 3.2. Staring at Win7 install screen asking me for SATA drivers.

Does the box say that, or does Windows say that? Because if Windows isn't complaining and sees the drive just fine, then you don't need to do anything.

Windows sees all of my drives including the new one, when I hit the Next button I get the message "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets it's criteria for installation".

Google search took me to Microsoft site and one of the remedies is to update hard disk controllers. Don't know how. I downloaded the latest BIOS ROM image from ASUS for my mobo, that's all.

You're going to have to find something like your motherboard's RAID drivers, or something.

If you are in the preinstall environment then you are going to have to extract the drivers and do the F6 instal method, but here is a link to your drivers.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx#2

This shit is easy. Win7 (and Vista) has the drivers built in. Stop sweating it.

If you are RAIDing which it doesn't look like you are then you may have to download the RAID driver from AMD(better) or ASUS, but the driver should be present in Win7 (as are VIA's, nVidia's and Intel's RAID drivers).

If not RAIDing, set to AHCI in BIOS and partition/quick format the drive in Disk Manager. Done.

Post the make and model of the motherboard and I/we can send you to the proper driver. It is asking for the SATA driver which you need to show win7 upon win install. They provide a driver button then point to the usb stick you have it on and it will be installed as you load windows. If it is not loaded look in Device manager and see if any drivers are missing...I am betting the sata driver is missing.

If the drive is in disk management just do what FascistNation said and you should be good. If it is not in disk management you have to load the sata driver.

Nasty