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Sata hdd not detected by Os install
Hi all, I have an Acer Aspire E500 desktop im trying to install a clean
install of the OS XP Media Center Edition 2005, the sata 250 gig can been seen in dos and fidsk and the bios but not by the start of XP media center edition 2005 the part where you select the drive to install the OS on to - it says no drives are detectable at all I only have the one drive and at the moment it had 3 partitions removed and then I made a single partition and formated it as fat32, but still no drives detected by the OS. On the motherboard I tried another sata bus (orange plug) to see but same problem, I have the sata hdd in the sata (1) orange bus - there are (4) of them. How can I get the OS the see the drive? Thanks all Gabriel |
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Sata hdd not detected by Os install
On 30/07/2010 18:08, Gabriel Knight wrote:
Hi all, I have an Acer Aspire E500 desktop im trying to install a clean install of the OS XP Media Center Edition 2005, the sata 250 gig can been seen in dos and fidsk and the bios but not by the start of XP media center edition 2005 the part where you select the drive to install the OS on to - it says no drives are detectable at all I only have the one drive and at the moment it had 3 partitions removed and then I made a single partition and formated it as fat32, but still no drives detected by the OS. On the motherboard I tried another sata bus (orange plug) to see but same problem, I have the sata hdd in the sata (1) orange bus - there are (4) of them. How can I get the OS the see the drive? You need to either set the BIOS to run the drive in legacy or IDE mode or you're going to have to provide the drivers for the SATA controller during the initial install period where it states to press f6 to install raid drivers. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk |
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Whooa...I pressed F6 as I didnt have what was needed to continue with the
"S" option I just pressed enter but the drive was not detected I spose because there was no sata controller installed at the point before I pressed enter, Im going to google about what Conor said but I will need help to install the correct software to get my hdd detected - so my next question is what and how do I continue from here? Thanks Gabriel You need to either set the BIOS to run the drive in legacy or IDE mode or you're going to have to provide the drivers for the SATA controller during the initial install period where it states to press f6 to install raid drivers. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk |
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Sata hdd not detected by Os install
I forgot to add that there is no option in the bios to run the sata drive in
legacy or IDE mode, that is why I need help to install the sata controller to get the hdd detected. Thanks again Gabriel "Gabriel Knight" wrote in message nd.com... Whooa...I pressed F6 as I didnt have what was needed to continue with the "S" option I just pressed enter but the drive was not detected I spose because there was no sata controller installed at the point before I pressed enter, Im going to google about what Conor said but I will need help to install the correct software to get my hdd detected - so my next question is what and how do I continue from here? Thanks Gabriel You need to either set the BIOS to run the drive in legacy or IDE mode or you're going to have to provide the drivers for the SATA controller during the initial install period where it states to press f6 to install raid drivers. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk |
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Sata hdd not detected by Os install
In article om,
says... I forgot to add that there is no option in the bios to run the sata drive in legacy or IDE mode, that is why I need help to install the sata controller to get the hdd detected. Thanks again Gabriel I guess your Google is broken. http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Oth...S/Others/Acer- Aspire-E500-SATA-Driver.shtml s |
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Sata hdd not detected by Os install
Steve wrote:
In article om, says... I forgot to add that there is no option in the bios to run the sata drive in legacy or IDE mode, that is why I need help to install the sata controller to get the hdd detected. Thanks again Gabriel I guess your Google is broken. http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Oth...S/Others/Acer- Aspire-E500-SATA-Driver.shtml s There is a Belarc Advisor dump for the E500 here. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic88885.html Chipset Vendor ATI Technologies Inc Chipset Model RS400/200 Host Bridge South Bridge ALI M1573 South Bridge with Hypertransport Support That means the motherboard uses a "mixed" chipset. An ATI Northbridge (so AGP driver would come from ATI), and a ULI Southbridge. That was done at the time, as the ATI Southbridge had some deficiencies. Some manufacturers chose to use the ATI Southbridge anyway, while others bolted on the ULI chip in its place. ******* Steve's driver package mentions ULI M5287. That might be the name of the SATA interface. Since Nvidia bought ULI and crushed them, Nvidia has the remains of drivers on their site. http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html That Softpedia driver looks sufficient to make an F6 floppy. Or, you can take the contents of the SATA\M5287\ folder from this, and copy that to a floppy. Using 7-ZIP, I can burrow down inside this, and see that folder as having a TXTSETUP.OEM, which would normally be at the top level of an F6 floppy driver install. You'd copy the contents of the SATA\M5287\ to the floppy, such that TXTSETUP.OEM was at the top level of the floppy. http://http.download.nvidia.com/ULi/...egrated213.zip SATA\M5287 WINXPA64 WIN_2000 WIN_XP --- has m5287.sys, ulisata.cat, ULISATA.INF inside Disk1 README.TXT TXTSETUP.OEM There might not be too much more in that Integrated213 of interest. (After Windows is installed, check Device Manager and see if the USB got detected properly or not.) And if Windows doesn't already have drivers for the Northbridge (like AGP), there might be a separate hunt for the ATI Northbridge. You could start on the Acer site for that, as I don't think ATI offers drivers for chipsets directly. In a pinch, you'd find a retail motherboard with a similar choice of chipset chips, and get drivers for that motherboard. Paul |
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Sata hdd not detected by Os install
Gabriel Knight wrote:
I forgot to add that there is no option in the bios to run the sata drive in legacy or IDE mode, that is why I need help to install the sata controller to get the hdd detected. My problem with that condition is that the XP install disk can only turn to a floppy to look for a driver and the rig I ran into the problem with didn't have a fdd. You would have to rewrite your own XP install disk or borrow a floppy drive or find some other work around. -- Mike Easter |
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