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May 20th 07, 08:28 PM
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What the heck does this mean????
I have done many reformats and installs. But ran into a different problem.
The owner bought XP and wants to replace Vista on a relatively new Gateway. I saved the data. But when I get to the XP setup where I normally delete the partition and reinstall, I am only being shown "Unknown Disk (There is no disk in this drive.)" It says that 4 times one above the other. I have never seen that message. I happened to have another SATA of exactly the same size and blank so I put it in the computer and was going to try installing to it. I get the same message. I looked in Setup but can't find any setting that would cause this. The message seems to indicate that I am trying to install to an optical drive... ??? What does this mean???????????? Thanks!!!!!!! marcy 
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May 20th 07, 08:34 PM
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more info
There are four card slots in this tower so apparently, they are being shown
as empty and that's fine, but I am not being show the C drive. How can that be??
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May 20th 07, 08:42 PM
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Fixed
The drive was in Raid mode instead of IDE
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May 20th 07, 09:20 PM
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What the heck does this mean????
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "marcy" wrote:
I have done many reformats and installs. But ran into a different problem. The owner bought XP and wants to replace Vista on a relatively new Gateway. I saved the data. But when I get to the XP setup where I normally delete the partition and reinstall, I am only being shown "Unknown Disk (There is no disk in this drive.)" It says that 4 times one above the other. I have never seen that message. I happened to have another SATA of exactly the same size and blank so I put it in the computer and was going to try installing to it. I get the same message. I looked in Setup but can't find any setting that would cause this. The message seems to indicate that I am trying to install to an optical drive... ??? What does this mean???????????? Thanks!!!!!!! marcy Find an old DOS copy of FDISK, and delete any partitions. Then start over. -- _____ / ' / â„¢ ,-/-, __ __. ____ /_ (_/ / (_(_/|_/ / _/ _
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May 20th 07, 09:21 PM
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In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "marcy" wrote:
There are four card slots in this tower so apparently, they are being shown as empty and that's fine, but I am not being show the C drive. How can that be?? Does the BIOS show the drive? -- _____ / ' / â„¢ ,-/-, __ __. ____ /_ (_/ / (_(_/|_/ / _/ _
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