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Answer» I recently ran into couple problems with my computer.
Problem 1 - my motherboard gave up the ghost. So I bought a new one, replaced it. Computer WORKED fine a few times, that I started getting a message that the hard drive was inoperable (problem 2).
So I purchased a new HDD. It's 320 GB SATA hard drive from Western Digital WD Caviar SE16 model 3200KS. I ran the software that was supplied with the drive and formatted the disk with partitions less that 137 GB. I also made it to be a boot device.
But when I tried to install Win XP I kept getting a message that there is no a drive for Win to be installed on.
BIOS shows that Master and Slaver drives are not detected. The user window however shows the drive and it's on COM4.
What am I doing wrong? How do I turn the drive into the Master?
Please help.
Respectfully,
CGis the drive recognised in your bios?are you using more than 1 md? set bios to boot from cdThank you for replying.
No BIOS does not SEEM to see it as a Master, it only SEES it as a bootable drive in the option where I can set boot sequenceIs your drive jumpered correctly? Drives TYPICALLY have diagrams to show you how to do it.
Did you try resetting the CMOS by taking out the battery for about 10 minutes and then putting it back?First off if this is a clean install remove any other HDD's until the install is finished successfully...
Second, very early on in the XP setup process you will see a prompt at the bottom of the screen stating " Press F6 to install RAID/SATA drivers" ....
At this point press F6 and have your MBoard driver CD handy as it has the SATA drivers included...
Good Luck.Quote from: CBMatt on August 15, 2008, 11:01:52 PM Is your drive jumpered correctly? Drives typically have diagrams to show you how to do it.
Did you try resetting the CMOS by taking out the battery for about 10 minutes and then putting it back?
THANK you for your reply!
The jumpers are factory set and the instructions book says to keep the default settings if I plan to use the HDD in a desktop computer.
Re the CMOS reset, I have not tried it yet. Will do today. Let you know as soon as.
Thank youQuote from: patio on August 16, 2008, 03:51:31 PMFirst off if this is a clean install remove any other HDD's until the install is finished successfully...
Second, very early on in the XP setup process you will see a prompt at the bottom of the screen stating " Press F6 to install RAID/SATA drivers" ....
At this point press F6 and have your MBoard driver CD handy as it has the SATA drivers included...
Good Luck.
Thank you for your idea.
Yes, it is a clean install. The old HDD was removed from the very beginning.
I tried to press F6 and the WIN XP asks me for those drives, but the set up later asks for drive A: (floppy) but my drives are on a CD. And I don't know how to make WIN to search the CD.
My BIOS sees the new HDD as a CH1 Master, the old one was CH0 Master and that channel is empty now. When I start the computer I have an option to go the user window by pressing TAB. That window shows me information about Masters and their channels. this window also tells me now that "the number of disks is not adequate to create RAID"
Any ideas?
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