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January 21st 06, 12:26 AM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
When I try to install XP the setup says that it can't find any hard drives. The CD is on IDE 1 and the drives are on IDE 2. One has an old version of XP that I want to delete. The instructions say that the CD should be on IDE 1. I've tried to boot with RAID on and off in the bios. The bios only shows IDE 1 under Std, CMOS Features It seems RAID (hardware) has to be on for the drives on IDE1 to show up. I've got another box with the same motherboard and it's running fine but I have little idea why. 
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January 21st 06, 09:10 PM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
Have you loaded the raid / sata driver by choosing to hit F6 to install disk
driver in the early stages of the XP install? Usually you need it ready on a floppy. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:udfAf.10000$JT.8313@fed1read06... When I try to install XP the setup says that it can't find any hard drives. The CD is on IDE 1 and the drives are on IDE 2. One has an old version of XP that I want to delete. The instructions say that the CD should be on IDE 1. I've tried to boot with RAID on and off in the bios. The bios only shows IDE 1 under Std, CMOS Features It seems RAID (hardware) has to be on for the drives on IDE1 to show up. I've got another box with the same motherboard and it's running fine but I have little idea why.
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January 21st 06, 09:14 PM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
"Andy" wrote in message ... Have you loaded the raid / sata driver by choosing to hit F6 to install disk driver in the early stages of the XP install? Usually you need it ready on a floppy. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:udfAf.10000$JT.8313@fed1read06... When I try to install XP the setup says that it can't find any hard drives. The CD is on IDE 1 and the drives are on IDE 2. One has an old version of XP that I want to delete. The instructions say that the CD should be on IDE 1. I've tried to boot with RAID on and off in the bios. The bios only shows IDE 1 under Std, CMOS Features It seems RAID (hardware) has to be on for the drives on IDE1 to show up. I've got another box with the same motherboard and it's running fine but I have little idea why. Thanks Andy. I'll have to buy a floppy since the USB floppy won't work. Is there some help you can give me for what files to copy from the CD to the floppy? I'm sorry to be so lame. : -)
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January 21st 06, 10:25 PM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
What board do you have - manufacturer and model?
"AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:qwxAf.11767$JT.545@fed1read06... "Andy" wrote in message ... Have you loaded the raid / sata driver by choosing to hit F6 to install disk driver in the early stages of the XP install? Usually you need it ready on a floppy. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:udfAf.10000$JT.8313@fed1read06... When I try to install XP the setup says that it can't find any hard drives. The CD is on IDE 1 and the drives are on IDE 2. One has an old version of XP that I want to delete. The instructions say that the CD should be on IDE 1. I've tried to boot with RAID on and off in the bios. The bios only shows IDE 1 under Std, CMOS Features It seems RAID (hardware) has to be on for the drives on IDE1 to show up. I've got another box with the same motherboard and it's running fine but I have little idea why. Thanks Andy. I'll have to buy a floppy since the USB floppy won't work. Is there some help you can give me for what files to copy from the CD to the floppy? I'm sorry to be so lame. : -)
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January 22nd 06, 02:26 AM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo
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#6
January 22nd 06, 10:56 AM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL family try this page for the
drivers... http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm Under RAID driver see the first download (unless you are running XP 64bit then it will be the last in that section). Load it onto a floppy and hit F6 when prompted early in the setup. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:k4CAf.11781$JT.222@fed1read06... Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo
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January 22nd 06, 10:29 PM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
"andy" wrote in message ... I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL family try this page for the drivers... http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm Under RAID driver see the first download (unless you are running XP 64bit then it will be the last in that section). Load it onto a floppy and hit F6 when prompted early in the setup. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:k4CAf.11781$JT.222@fed1read06... Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo Andy, that seems to have worked. I really appreciate your help. : -)
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#8
January 23rd 06, 01:01 AM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
Andy, Do you have any idea why a hard disk would not let the entire thing be partitioned? One drive is 80 G but always leaves 8 Meg as unallocated so the drives are different sizes. I wonder if this will stop a mirror drive from working. I guess it has to do with something I did with Drive Image or Partition Magic. "andy" wrote in message ... I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL family try this page for the drivers... http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm Under RAID driver see the first download (unless you are running XP 64bit then it will be the last in that section). Load it onto a floppy and hit F6 when prompted early in the setup. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:k4CAf.11781$JT.222@fed1read06... Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo
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#9
January 23rd 06, 08:57 PM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
This is always the case when formatting (have never bothered to find out
why! it is probably the disk cache area) and as long as the two drives are the same overall size it will not affect RAID. Please to know you are up and running. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:uWVAf.13219$JT.4040@fed1read06... Andy, Do you have any idea why a hard disk would not let the entire thing be partitioned? One drive is 80 G but always leaves 8 Meg as unallocated so the drives are different sizes. I wonder if this will stop a mirror drive from working. I guess it has to do with something I did with Drive Image or Partition Magic. "andy" wrote in message ... I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL family try this page for the drivers... http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm Under RAID driver see the first download (unless you are running XP 64bit then it will be the last in that section). Load it onto a floppy and hit F6 when prompted early in the setup. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:k4CAf.11781$JT.222@fed1read06... Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo
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#10
January 23rd 06, 11:00 PM
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XP can't find hard drives to install
Andy, That's what's weird. They are both WD 80G drives and one has the 8 meg unallocated and the other doesn't, so I put the drive with the extra space as the mirror. I hope it doesn't screw things up. I know that the postition of some files is really important. Thanks again, so much Ben Hoff "andy" wrote in message ... This is always the case when formatting (have never bothered to find out why! it is probably the disk cache area) and as long as the two drives are the same overall size it will not affect RAID. Please to know you are up and running. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:uWVAf.13219$JT.4040@fed1read06... Andy, Do you have any idea why a hard disk would not let the entire thing be partitioned? One drive is 80 G but always leaves 8 Meg as unallocated so the drives are different sizes. I wonder if this will stop a mirror drive from working. I guess it has to do with something I did with Drive Image or Partition Magic. "andy" wrote in message ... I am assuming your board is of the GA-8I915PL family try this page for the drivers... http://uk.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8I915PL-G%20(Rev%202.x).htm Under RAID driver see the first download (unless you are running XP 64bit then it will be the last in that section). Load it onto a floppy and hit F6 when prompted early in the setup. "AKA gray asphalt" wrote in message news:k4CAf.11781$JT.222@fed1read06... Andy, It's a Gigabyte 915PL PX Turbo
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