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Formatting a sata hdd
Name: murraywalker82 Date: February 11, 2005 at 01:08:52 Pacific OS: windows 2000 CPU/Ram: p4 1ghz ram
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booting off windows 2000 system to format the hdd in order to re install 2000/ i have a sata hdd and it wont find the hdd in order to format and ideas?
Name: bob819 Date: February 11, 2005 at 03:33:41 Pacific
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I will be really interested to see what response this gets. I have a very similar problem when I attempt to upgrade my XP Home to XP Pro. After loading the initial files, the machine reboots and says it cannot detect the hard drive which is a SATA like yours. I have a suspicion you may need something like a SCSI driver or similar loaded first but I'm not sure. Rgds. Bob Mitchell.
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Response Number 2
Name: Curt R Date: February 11, 2005 at 04:03:25 Pacific
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You do, you require the SATA drivers and during a normal install, you put those in when it says "Press F6 to install SCSI drivers". You'll have to download the drivers from the HDD manufacturers web site. I'm thinking you'll have to create a bootdisk with the drivers if you want to format the drive before installing.
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Response Number 3
Name: ooglenz1 Date: February 11, 2005 at 05:02:01 Pacific
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on the blue screen press f6 to install the scsi drivers for the sata. Afther that windows can be installated just like normal
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Response Number 4
Name: bob819 Date: February 11, 2005 at 05:34:36 Pacific
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Ijust found the following on the Seagate site, answers my query precisely! http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/sata_detect.html ooglenzl, & Curt R you were bang on! except Seagate say the drivers needed are for the SATA controller on the mobo NOT the HDD, so if you didn't get a CD with the mobo you are going to have to find them somewhere. Thanks, Bob Mitchell.
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Response Number 5
Name: Curt R Date: February 11, 2005 at 06:45:11 Pacific
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You're right Bob...my bad for not mentioning it in my previous post....the drivers are for the controller. Without those drivers the system can't see the HDD's because it can't see the controller.
I recently put together a server for a client with dual 76.4 GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 array and the drivers came on a CD with the system (an IBM xSeries server) and had to be loaded prior to starting the install and setting up the RAID.
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Response Number 6
Name: bob819 Date: February 11, 2005 at 06:52:48 Pacific
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It's too easy in this business to make a slight error. Cleverclogs here copied all the mobo drivers to the sata HDD! Duh! I will write them to a CD tonight & try again. Cheers, Bob Mitchell.
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