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John |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 20:37 |
xp doesn't have any sata drivers on the disc. | |
James_DT |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 20:33 |
Microsoft OneCare Beta is good, and currently free. Otherwise the usuals like AVG (free) or Norton (not free). | |
Claire |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 17:07 |
Thanks for all your replies! It was the raid settings in the end! | |
Bart |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 13:47 |
nope! your still wrong!! | |
PaulW |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 09:14 |
quote: yes yes yes yes ;) think about it... XP wont even ATTEMPT to copy any files across to ANY drive if it can't find it during the post-setup stage, you need to install the 3rd party drivers when it prompts you to press F6 to install 3rd party blah... If however, like clare states, it FORMATTED and copied files across, then it has picked up the drive & knows where it is! [Edited on 03-02-2006 by PaulW] | |
Bart |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 08:25 |
quote: NO NO NO NO :) Claire, if you cant find the SATA hard drives when it comes to installation then you need to go into the bios and look for RAID Config, and DISABLE raid config. | |
PaulW |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 00:34 |
as said, make sure you press F6 when setting up windows when it first boots & put the disk in with the SATA drivers | |
Claire |
posted on 3rd Feb 06 at 00:01 |
Thanks for your help people, I'll try ang give answers to your questions once i can see bios again. | |
Bart |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 23:22 |
quote: Yeah, agreed, SATA drives dont tend to show up in bios either. After you've copied the setup files, go back into bios and set the HDD-01 as first boot device :thumbs: | |
Bart |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 23:21 |
quote: should be HDD after you've ran setup once. Once the files have been copied to the hard drive and it asks you to reboot for the first time you want to boot up off those copied files to continue the setup, definatly not off the disk or it will repeat the setup process. do not boot up off the cdrom if you have started the setup and already copied the files [Edited on 02-02-2006 by Bart] | |
Ian |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 23:19 |
What options do you have in the boot sequence list? | |
Russ |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 23:09 |
do it frsh, unplug your drive, plug it back in, boot from cd, format (not the quick one) and install it all again. do you have a disk for raid drivers, you press f2 or f6 or something and load you the drivers. if its recognising your drive in windows setup, hen like i said, just do a full reinstall | |
James |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 22:20 |
mines SATA and it picked it up, but i know its quite common for SATA not being recognised | |
Claire |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 22:19 |
Checked. I'm wondering if bios cant see itr because its sata? I cant find any info about the hdd in bios (can see other drive types etc. I have formatted it so I know its connected, just maybe bios cant see it? | |
James |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 22:06 |
checked the HDD hasnt got a loose connection or anything? | |
Claire |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 22:01 |
Just tried that :( | |
James |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 21:56 |
You been into BIOS and looked at the boot ptiority? Might be set to CDROM only..... | |
Claire |
posted on 2nd Feb 06 at 21:51 |
Hi, Ive finished building my computer. The hdd is sata, 2 dvd drives, floppy, amd athlon blah blah. |