sata drivers for win7  

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I think that Win 7 should be able to supply the driver for that one itself, or it should be available from Windows Update.

Are you going to be installing Win 7 to a machine with this board in it? I had no trouble doing this with an old MSI board of my wife's. Win 7 found the SATA drivers during the install with no problems at all. I didn't use any of the manufacturer's drivers at all, except for the chipset. Windows then updated them on it's own.

So, a SATA drive hooked to the ports will boot into Windows? If so, at least something is working. How did you determine that there were no drivers? Have you looked at Device Manager and looked at your drives? I can pretty much promise you that Windows has loaded some kind of driver, or the drives won't work properly. If there aren't any yellow triangles, you should be okay.

Check the driver tab for your drives, if there is no driver listed, click "Update Driver" and let Windows search online for one. The only possible SATA driver that might be hard for you to get for an older motherboard like yours would be a RAID driver. That probably won't be available from MS, and you'll have to get that one from the manufacturer. A normal SATA driver would have been installed when you installed Windows.

A RAID controller might be a problem because almost every manufacturer does something different with the implementation. For that reason, it's usually the manufacturer that supplies those drivers, and with an older motherboard, you take your chances whether they'll update it for Win 7, or not.

Just so that I understand, I should ask... You can see the SATA drive in Device Manager? Are you able to see the drive under Administrative tools >> Storage? You would need to use Admin tools to initialize the drive (partition, format). You won't be able to see the drive in Explorer until it's been initialized and been given a drive letter.

Are you trying to use the SATA ports for a RAID array? If you are, your motherboard may not support Win 7 for RAID, and there isn't a lot you can do about that, unless Gigabyte decides to make a RAID driver for it. Even if it can't support RAID, Windows should still support the SATA interfaces in IDE mode on the board without a driver from Gigabyte.

@stormy13. Just saw your post after I wrote this. Excellent. I didn't think VIA was doing anything with the older stuff anymore. They've been concentrating on the small, low power EPIA line for the past while, and I thought they'd pretty much ended support for everything else. I'm sure I can use something in that link to fix something frustrating at work. Thanks!

GA-K8VT800-RH (rev. 2.x) - GIGABYTE
VIA Drivers Download - VIA Technologies, Inc.
Both web sites have the same drivers for loading sata controller in setup.

How are you loading the sata controller drivers in the Win 7 install?
SATA Driver - Load in Windows 7 or Vista Setup