SATA cable, power cable ok, disk spins, New DV burner reads disk, moptherboard looks like its starting up with opening screen info but it cannot find the hard drive. XP refuses to install because it cannot find it either. Have I forgotten something?
2007-05-16 04:55:29 · 5 answers · asked by latitude58_8 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
yep you forgot to make the driver floppy for the sata controller. On your motherboard cd there should be a file that will make that disk. Some motherboard support cd's will boot and you can make the floppy from there. After you havethe floppy made, boot the xp cd and press F6 when it tells you to atthe bottom of the setup screen, and have the disk in the drive. You should be good to go from there.
2007-05-16 05:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by F___M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
During the installation, did you have a floppy drive or CDROM with the SATA drivers? I don't believe XP (at least not a non-slip streamed version) included any SATA support on the installation media.
2007-05-16 04:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by Jim Maryland 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot up the computer and go into it BIOS set up. (The screen should display a key or key combination to get there). Make sure that BIOS is recognizing the SATA drive is there. You may have to adjust BIOS settings for the drive, or move it to the other SATA controller to get it to work.
Once BIOS can see, so should the Windows set up.
2007-05-16 05:00:21 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check BIOS, after that is done w/ Windows will need tobe activated again.
2007-05-16 05:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by mckinley1211 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try detecting your harddisk on bios mannualy..
2007-05-16 04:58:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋