NEW BUILD--No Hard Drive?

[jlindy73]

Put together new pc and trying to load XP-OS. When I look at the BIOS I see Serial ATA 1 Primary CHannel is recognized. When I try to install OS it tells me I have no hard drive. Is there a pre-installation I need to perform on hard drive before installing OS?

[DougL]

You need to install the necessary drivers have a look here for the information

http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how...ws_xp_on_a.htm

Doug

[jlindy73]

i tried the XP on SATA method but when i press F6 then s i get to a screen to select my computer type, not to specify a certain device

[jlindy73]

i went back to the computer and on the screen it displayed the specify a certain device

[jlindy73]

ive made it to step 7 but when i put the floppy disk in and hit enter it trys to load and then just goes back to the screen saying enter floppy disk

[Kareeser]

Does your computer detect the floppy drive? (does it make noise, can you hear the drive reading the disk, etc?)

Thanks

[jlindy73]

No noise from floppy. (Does not seem to be recognized).
Looking around on BIOS, but the best I can see is that i select the size, e.g. 1.44 MB.
I set up sequence for boot to check floppy first, inserted a bootable floppy, and left CD drive empty. Is there something more to do in bios or MB?

[jlindy73]

Purchased New Floppy, although I think the issue may have been cables not connected correctly--light was permanently on, with no disk. FLOPPY IS NOW FOUND!
Still have problems,

BIOS READS:
Primary IDE Master [SONY]
Primary IDE Slave [Plextor DVDR]
Secondary IDE Master [Not Detected]
Secondary IDE Slave [Not Detected]
SERIAL-ATA 1 Primary Channel [ST3120827AS]
When I perform the XP install, I press [F6], then when I can the option I choose "S", and select from FLOPPY: Silicon Image SiI 3132 SATALink Controller for Windows XP/Server 2003. When that is complete I come back to the install screen and it confirms it will load support for the following mass storage device(s), from what I chose above. It continues along and the comes to a screen that has 3 options, one of which is, "To Setup Windows XP now, press ENTER." Which I choose. I then get the following error, "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Setup can not continue, to quit Setup, press F3. What I am doing wrong here????

[DougL]

Hi

floppy drive light staying on usually means cable is wrong way round, had a look at the seagate site and your drive model indicates that you have to download the discwizard2003 and run that to install your drive. heres a link

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...ll_tshoot.html

Doug

[jlindy73]

Got XP Loaded and hard drive recognized. I made sure I had anything mentioning RAID as disabled. Everything worked then. I had tried the SEAGATE thing earlier. It is not much help