I need to do a format on a computer and this is what is happening CMOS and XP disk does not recognize SATA HDD. So therefore it will not let me format. Does boot from HDD so HDD is present and healthy. Plug in different HDD, same problem. Reset CMOS, no change FDISK sees the HDD as a 700 Mb when its a 80 Gig It recognizes the DVD Burner Specs mainboard is a Gigabyte-K8VM800M AMD Sempron 3000+ 1 Gig generic RAM Seagate 80 Gig HDD SATA Any thoughts

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OK have read through them and very little help. I have never had to create a RAID floppy disk before for this computer, it has always recognized the drive at start up. Could someone have changed a setting somewhere ? How do you create a RAID floppy as the computer did not come with one. I tried disabling the IDE and all sorts of weird stuff and nothing is working.