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Original Message
Name: kdahl
Date: November 5, 2007 at 17:04:37 Pacific
Subject: Hard Drive
OS: XP pro
CPU/Ram: AMD athalon
Comment:

I have a WD 250 gig SATA drive that was used in a Raid array with a third party raid controler card. That card failed and i now want to use this drive on its own but I canot get my system to boot when it is instaled. I get the message IDE channel 2 Master Disk: CHS, PIO and the system will not move on. What do I need to do to format this drive and get it clean?


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Response Number 1
Name: mountain
Date: November 5, 2007 at 17:23:47 Pacific
Subject: Hard Drive
Reply: (edit)

what i do in these cases, is to go to www.bootdisk.com
download free win98se bootdisk and copy floppy. [hope you have a floppy]
boot with the disk, to a:\
a:\fdisk
in there, remove all partitions.
then, create another partition, make it active.
in the bios, set the computer to boot from cd-rom now.
boot with the xp disk


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Response Number 2
Name: aegis
Date: November 5, 2007 at 19:30:12 Pacific
Subject: Hard Drive
Reply: (edit)

If Fdisk doesn't work (it sometimes has problems with non-dos drives), download and run DelPart. It will remove all partitioning on a drive.

http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart...


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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill
Date: November 5, 2007 at 19:32:25 Pacific
Subject: Hard Drive
Reply: (edit)

You will need a floppy drive to install SATA drivers. Is the WINXP CD you are using have at least sp1 integrated into it? Your specs are pretty generic. Your MBoard may not be 48bit LBA compliant. Are you using a controller card or onboard SATA controller?


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Response Number 4
Name: Cobra_R
Date: November 5, 2007 at 22:46:16 Pacific
Subject: Hard Drive
Reply: (edit)

If you don't have a floppy and have a second CD Rom drive you can use nero and burn it as a bootable image and install the SATA drivers from there.

Better yet if you have a setting in you Bios to see SATA as an IDE drive you can choose that option to avoid having to upload any drivers.


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Response Number 5
Name: WebsWonder
Date: November 6, 2007 at 02:48:12 Pacific
Subject: Hard Drive
Reply: (edit)

It is feasible create a customised XP CD with the SATA Controller Drivers and other downloads integrated, by using nLite

http://www.nliteos.com/


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