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04-30-2004, 10:44 AM
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Xp not seeing hard drives
I have finished a new build (sig). During installation of XP pro I get a message "setup did not find and hard disk drives installed on your computer" I have gone through everything and and rechecked all connections. I have set up the two drives as a RAID 0 array. I saw a previous thread on this but I can not find it. I appreciate any help you can give.
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04-30-2004, 10:52 AM
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The XP installation needs the drivers for Sata drives on a floppy, I think the drivers are on the motherboard cd, but I am not sure so correct me if i'm wrong. During setup it should say at the bottom what key to press to tell it were the drivers are. (Long time since I did an install but I think it says press ... for SCSI drivers, where ... is the button it says)
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04-30-2004, 10:58 AM
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04-30-2004, 11:00 AM
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Carlmccut I googled it and found out you have to press F6 during setup, and use the drivers for the RAID controller off your motherboard cd. You need to copy the RAID drivers off your motherboard cd and put them onto a floppy.
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04-30-2004, 03:40 PM
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I have put drivers on a floppy and even installed still no raid. Well I gave up on that. My next issue is that I have two 120G hard drives and the system only sees one. I thought it was a bad cable checked everything still ng.
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04-30-2004, 04:02 PM
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*EDIT* Cancel all that, I didn't see that they were SATA drives. Don't know much about issues with those.
It sure sounds like whatever is wrong is also causing the raid 0 to screw up, as both hds must be working properly for raid 0 to work. So if you can get both drives recognized, try the raid setup again. |
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04-30-2004, 04:16 PM
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If they are not set up in raid are they both formatted? To check right click on my computer and click manage. In the left hand column click disk management, if that has both hard drives on then all you have to do is format it. To format just right click on the unformatted drive and click format. Failing that when you boot up does it say both drives in BIOS?
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04-30-2004, 05:08 PM
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WhatsThisBoxFor? Went into disk management drive 2 not there. Rebooted and went into bios both drives are there??
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04-30-2004, 05:10 PM
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other than not seeing one of the hard drves everything else worrks just fine.
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04-30-2004, 05:12 PM
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Have you got the jumpers on the drive connected propely
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04-30-2004, 05:25 PM
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Did you enable boot from SATA? The SATA drives are disabled by default, so you have to go into Bios and enable boot from SATA to use the SATA drives.
Also, there are no jumpers for SATA drives. One more thing... RAID has to be enabled before you install Windows. |
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04-30-2004, 05:53 PM
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Have you tried the other hd on the cable/SATA port of the drive that does work? That should tell you if it's the drive or a problem with the SATA channel.
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05-01-2004, 02:28 AM
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are you setup with a mirored aray if so windows will only see one hard drive as the other one is a backup copy of the first
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05-01-2004, 03:25 AM
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Folks,
Thanks for all of your help. I found the drivers and the method of copying them to the bootable floppy. Every thing is up and running great. The drivers were burried in the cab files. I had to use another utility (which the manual does not mention) to get the files decompressed and copied. Once again thanks for all of your input I appreciate it. Oh Yea the array is set up as RAID 0 |
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