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01-27-2006, 04:42 PM
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160 gb WD Sata drive
I have a 160 gigabyte Wd Sata drive that I would like to reformat. Windows 98 will see the drive and fdisk and format, but when I put in my xp disk it tells me that there is no drive in the computer. It will place a partition on the drive but will not install. Why? I can then go in and fdisk using w98se and blow away the partition.
Computer is a 2.5 ghz Celeron with a MSI motherboard with sata onboard. It has 512 megs of ram. XP will install fine on an 80 gig ata133 drive but this sata says that there is no drive to install on. It does the same thing with Win 2000 too.
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01-27-2006, 06:37 PM
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I'd zero the drive out and try with XP again. Do you have the SATA drivers on a floppy so you can hit F6 and install them? 98 doesn't need them to install but XP/2K does.
Are you sure the motherboard is 48 bit LBA compliant? It might need a bios update. |
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