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No, I have more than one computer. You wondered how I was posting if I
didn't have Windows. I have another computer. I am trying to get my old
computer back working after formating the hard drives. It is that, that is
the problem. As for applying drivers on setup, I have been trying
everything I can think of to get it to work, including that. No, it is not
SATA or RAID (both are auto detected by XP anyway).
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Kevin
"Anna" <myname@myisp.net> wrote in message
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>>>>>>> "Kevin" <warhawk@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:eB0dZtGvFHA.3236@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>>>I am having this problem trying to re-install windows XP. I have
>>>>>>>>tried booting from boot disk, and from the XP CD. The hard drives
>>>>>>>>(2 Maxtor IDE133 drives, one 30GB one 40GB) show up fine in BIOS,
>>>>>>>>and from a boot disk. They also show up fine in every utility I
>>>>>>>>have tried. I have fdisk'd them, reformated them, repartitioned
>>>>>>>>them repeatedly. Installing Windows XP keeps giving me the same
>>>>>>>>error - no hard drives found. MS KB has been no help in this.
>>>>>>>>Anyone know anything else I can try please?
>>>>>>>> Kevin
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>>>>>> "RoadRunner" <xpnewsgroup@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:erCyt0GvFHA.744@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>> Hi ... If you have an Windows xp disc ? Then you wouldn't perform
>>>>>>> fdisk to reformat the drives , You can reformat the drive with the
>>>>>>> xp disc , have a look at this website in how its done , just select
>>>>>>> clean install on the left side pane
>>>>>>> http://michaelstevenstech.com/
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>>>>> "Kevin" <warhawk@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
>>>>> news:uWUYD9GvFHA.3740@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>>>>> Thanks for the reply, but no I can't. The WinXP CD can't find any
>>>>>> hard drives. That is my problem. Neither can the Win2000 CD. Yet
>>>>>> they are there, they are functional, and can copy files too and from
>>>>>> them. But XP can't see them.
>>>>>> Kevin
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>>>> "Anna" <myname@myisp.net> wrote in message
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>> "Anna" <myname@myisp.net> wrote in message
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>>>>> Kevin:
>>>>> When you say you can read (and presumably write) to both of those
>>>>> drives, you're referring to the situation where you've installed them
>>>>> in another machine and they seem to function OK as data/storage
>>>>> (non-booting) drives. Is that right? So it's clear from this that you
>>>>> know the drives are not defective. Is that it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or do you mean that you've installed them in the another machine with
>>>>> another bootable drive and they function OK as data storage/backup
>>>>> drives?
>>>>>
>>>>> In any event, there doesn't seem to be any mechanical/electronic
>>>>> problems with those drives, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> Now you're trying to install XP on one (or both?) of those drives? Or
>>>>> are you simply trying to use them as second (and third?) storage
>>>>> drives in your computer, in that you have a bootable drive installed
>>>>> in that machine?
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you clarify all this and we can go on from there. In doing so,
>>>>> please report *precisely* how you've connected/configured/jumpered
>>>>> *all* the hard drives you're using.
>>>>> Anna
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>>> "Kevin" <warhawk@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
>>> news:%23xHZ5lIvFHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>> No, I mean on this machine I can read and write to the drives using
>>>> things like Ghost, or Maxplus, or just DOS boot disks. I am trying to
>>>> install XP onto the master drive. They are set up correctly as
>>>> master/slave. Nothing in the hardware has changed since I started
>>>> trying to reinstall XP (bought a new pc, and want to give this one to
>>>> my daughter clean) Every utility I have tried, including windows boot
>>>> disks can see the drives. But when I try to install XP it says no hard
>>>> drives detected.
>>>> Kevin
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>>> Kevin:
>>> Forgive my denseness but I'm still not clear on your situation...
>>>
>>> You obviously have a machine with a bootable XP OS since here you are
>>> posting a message from (I assume) that computer.
>>>
>>> Now, for one reason or another, you want to install XP on one (or both?)
>>> of the drives in question, the 30 GB & 40 GB drives on that same
>>> machine. Do I have it right so far?
>>>
>>> If I do... You disconnect the Primary Master and install the 30 GB drive
>>> and try to install XP on that drive using, of course, the XP
>>> installation CD. But you can't because you get a message that no HD is
>>> detected on your computer. Now you disconnect that 30 GB drive and
>>> install 40 GB one. And the same thing happens.
>>>
>>> Do I have it right now?
>>> Anna
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> "Kevin" <warhawk@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>> No, I built a new machine which I am posting from. The old machine, I am
>> giving to my daughter, so I wanted to install XP fresh and get rid of
>> years of accumulated junk. When I started this task, you could still
>> boot to XP. I first tried installing from in Windows, and when it
>> rebooted, it couldn't find any hard drives. It could still boot to
>> Windows safe mode, but no where else. I then tried reformating both
>> drives. No problem, but XP setup still couldn't see a drive. Every
>> utility I've tried has no problem seeing them. I even installed DOS 6.0
>> onto the drive, and can boot from that. Then run WINNT from the CD, and
>> again, no drive. So right now, I have a machine, that was running XP
>> with no problems. I've made no hardware changes, and no BIOS changes.
>> DOS can see and run on the drive. In setup, if I hit F6 to load drivers
>> (I figured maybe it had a problem with the motherboard controller) and
>> put in the driver disk for the HD controller, it says it already has
>> those drivers in Windows. But it still doesn't see the drive.
>> Thanks for your help Anna.
>> Kevin
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> Kevin:
> I think (although I'm still not entirely sure) that I understand your
> situation...
> You have a computer (containing XP, right?) that's actually working fine.
> It boots with whatever bootable drive is in that machine. But you want,
> (for some reason I'm not particularly clear about), to install XP on some
> older 30 GB & 40 GB drives and install (I guess) one of them as the new
> bootable drive. You know those drives are not defective because when
> they're installed as (we'll call them) secondary drives, i.e., for
> storage/backup purposes, the system detects them and there's no problem
> accessing data on those drives. But you can't install XP on either of
> those drives because when you use the XP installation CD to install the
> OS, it reports there are no hard disks present.
>
> So if I have it right now -- why can't you simply use that "good" bootable
> drive that works in that machine and be done with it? Delete whatever
> programs/data you don't want on that drive. Use one or both of the other
> drives for storage/backup purposes.
>
> What is this business about "I hit F6 to load drivers" because "maybe
> (there's) a problem with the motherboard controller"? We're not talking
> SATA drives or some RAID setup here, are we? What "driver disk for the HD
> controller"?
>
> We'll get to the bottom of this yet, Kevin.
> Anna
>
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