Need SATA Controller drivers for Seagate ST380811AS to install Windows XP SP2

Dear All,
I want to install Windows XP SP2 on my Seagate Barracuda 80 GB SATA
Hard Disk (ST380811AS).
My mother board is Gigabyte 81865GMe-775-RH.
My hard disk is being detected by BIOS as got from the information
displayed while the PC boots (LBA, SATA, 80 GB).
It is on IDE Channel 0 Slave and my LG DVD Writer is on IDE Channel 1
Master.
Now i tried to install Windows XP on it, but the HDD is not being
detected by Windows XP SP2.
Then, I came to know from Internet that i have to supply the SATA
Controller drivers to Windows XP in the installation process. This i
have to search on Motherboard CD or from Internet.

The readme.txt from the MB CD contains the following
information(extracted):
.............................................................................
7) BootDrv
If you want installing driver during new Windows OS
to RAID/SCSI/Serial ATA SIDE.Please insert empty disk to floppy
and run "..\\BootDrv\\menu.exe" under DOS mode environment for
get
driver.
.............................................................................

Is this the right exe that i have to execute to extract driver files?

Upon running this utility, i got the menu choice:

E:\BootDrv>menu
1)IAA_RAID
2)GIGARAID
3)SiIBASE
4)SiIRAID
5)SCSI
6)Promise 20276 ATA
7)Promise 20276 RAID
8)Promise 20265 ATA
9)Promise 20265 ATA(XP)
A)Promise 20265 RAID
B)Promise 20265 RAID(XP)
C)VIA 8237 Series ATA
D)Si3114 Base
E)Si3114 Raid
F)SCSI HostRaid
G)Hance Rapids Raid
0)exit

I dont know which option do i choose so that i can create a floppy for
my Seagate SATA HDD?
Do anybody have idea?

I searched Internet and i got information on seagate.com about many of
the sites of SATA controllers. One of the link is:

http://www.siig.com/driver.asp?catid=80&pid=467

I have downloaded
ftp://www.siig.com/sc-sat212_win98-XP_v10047.exe file from the site.
Is it useful driver file for my Seagate SATA HDD?

Please help me ASAP.

Thanks in advance.

-Sameer

Sammer, why u using 3rdclass board like gigabitye, any ways this problum comes on samsung hardisk not in seagate, ok , connect the hdd and boot system from win-xp CD than I will automaticaly detect and show u the harddisk.
second thing, your mother board driver Cd contains sata driver in it, copy it in a floppy disk, when u start win-xp installation press F6 and select the location as a B: or floppy drive, do it than let me know

I know that there are drivers in the mother board CD, but there are a lot of exe files which are to be extracted to create driver files as given in my post. How to identify which one is suitable for Seagate 80 GB HDD.
Can anybody explore more on this?
-Sameer

hai dude's

I am using Vostro 1200. Default installed OS is Windows Vista Home 32 Bit .Now i want to install Windows Xp +SP2 .The reason lot my application not workngi n Vista .

When i tried to install it shows not HDD found .and i tried to do something in Bios but I cannot find the option to see what is the current HDD operation mode.

From the boot menu i can see this :

Vostro 1200 Bios Revision A03

And when i pressed F2 to enter the boot menu, i can see this

Dell Inc. Vosto 1200 - InsydeH20 Setup Utility - Rev. 3.0

The hard disk is listed at ST9160821AS
Processoer Type : Intel (R) Core(TM) 2 Duo CPU T7250

Total Memory : 3072 MB

Bios Version : A03

Kindly help any one for this

Any solutions for this ????? really help ful for me

thanks
kartook

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The hard disk is listed at ST9160821AS

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well, its a seagate 160 gb hdd & i wonder why it is not being detected, maybe a loose hdd cable connection inside?

Was the hdd working fine before?

this is Brand New Laptop

with Vista business pre installed and Working Fine till now .

Just i got 3 Weeks back