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No hard drive being recognised
Name: deanh Date: December 22, 2008 at 14:34:02 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Product: Amd / CUSTOM BUILT
Comment:
I've purchased a Windows XP Professional disk and I have tried to format my hard drive and install the XP disk.
During the Set Up stage, once it has taken around 3 minutes or so copying files, the message comes up, your hard disk is not recognised. The only option I have after this is to Exit the Set Up. Would anyone know how I get the system to recognise my 20Gb hard drive. I know that the hard drive is fine because I'm currently using it and it works fine.
Basically, I'm wanting to format my hard drive and reinstall windows XP with a Professional version. Can anyone help?
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: December 22, 2008 at 14:42:45 Pacific
Reply:
How is the drive physically connected? I'm assuming it's an IDE drive? Is it seen in the BIOS when you boot the machine?
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Response Number 2
Name: paulsep Date: December 22, 2008 at 15:14:28 Pacific
Reply:
If it is an SATA drive, you need to install a special SATA driver or you need a Slipstreamed WinXP Installation CD including SP3.
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Response Number 3
Name: fgdn17 Date: December 22, 2008 at 17:46:17 Pacific
Reply:
"During the Set Up stage"
did you format the drive BEFORE it started copying files???
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Response Number 4
Name: Katelynn7 Date: December 26, 2008 at 16:35:00 Pacific
Reply:
It says "custom built!" Do you have a floppy drive? If not, get one! Don't use Windows to do any work on hard drives! Find out who the MFR of the hard drive is, get the OEM setup/diagnostic disk, do a low-level format first, this is a complete wipe of all information including sector head info, then do your regular (high level) format with any Win98/me boot disk. Before installing OS, clear your cmos!
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