Hard drive not recognized during upgrade

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Bill Taylor

After years of an 'on-again, off-again' love affair with
my mostly working Win98 PC I decided to take the plunge
and go for Windows XP (home).

Years of battling with each successive Microsoft upgrade
from Windows 3.1 'till this latest XP adventure have
hardened me into a confirmed 'PC cynic'. So, it comes as
no surprise that I'm having mind boggling difficulties
with XP before ever seeing it's Logo on my screen!

This particular one (as I'm quite sure there's more where
this is coming from) is telling me that XP can't ID my
hard drive; and, as a result, can neither write to or read
from my drive. It also grumbles something about there
possibly being some awful virus or terrible
misconfiguration of my drive and that I should remove it
immediately, or some such nonsense.

What is particularly odd is that not only am I upgrading
directly from a momentarily well working Win98 SE setup,
but I have never had a virus on my system. Also, I'm
running a brand new Asus P4C800 Deluxe mobo, with 512 meg
of Kingston PC2400 memory, and 2 80gig Maxtor drives set
into a raid 0 stripe array.

I've never used a raid array before but it performs
flawlessly in my 98 setup. The raid controller is by the
Promise co. and is built into my motherboard. Finally,
these two drives are SATA.

Ever see this one before... or am I alone in this hellish
little XPerience?!
 
Did a search for sata (in header) in the NGs, found these;
Jeff,

If you still need help...

Go to your Device Manager and upgrade the driver for your
existing SCSI/RAID controller with the Promise driver.
It should prompt you to reboot, then it will notice the
drive. You may then need to update the drive driver and
reboot again.

Good Luck

MuFF
-----Original Message-----
Both the Promise SATA RAID driver that came with my
motherboard (ASUS P4C800 Deluxe), and the newest version
on the ASUS website are not certified by microsoft and I
cannot get this device working properly in Windows XP
Home. After installing the driver I get an error message
saying the device cannot start (error code 10). When the
system posts, I get a message saying that the RAID
configuration is functional. Any suggestions?
.
??? "Drive Driver"?
Click to expand...

As to the warning about certification, because the WHQL process takes so
long and is so full of problems, many OEMs will release device drivers
before they are certified. The drivers you are most likely quite functional
and the same code that will be released as certified. You can generally
take the "Install anyway" button.

--
Gary G. Little
And your message, you might find more, I only keep 5 days of messages.

--
Just my ¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| After years of an 'on-again, off-again' love affair with
| my mostly working Win98 PC I decided to take the plunge
| and go for Windows XP (home).
|
| Years of battling with each successive Microsoft upgrade
| from Windows 3.1 'till this latest XP adventure have
| hardened me into a confirmed 'PC cynic'. So, it comes as
| no surprise that I'm having mind boggling difficulties
| with XP before ever seeing it's Logo on my screen!
|
| This particular one (as I'm quite sure there's more where
| this is coming from) is telling me that XP can't ID my
| hard drive; and, as a result, can neither write to or read
| from my drive. It also grumbles something about there
| possibly being some awful virus or terrible
| misconfiguration of my drive and that I should remove it
| immediately, or some such nonsense.
|
| What is particularly odd is that not only am I upgrading
| directly from a momentarily well working Win98 SE setup,
| but I have never had a virus on my system. Also, I'm
| running a brand new Asus P4C800 Deluxe mobo, with 512 meg
| of Kingston PC2400 memory, and 2 80gig Maxtor drives set
| into a raid 0 stripe array.
|
| I've never used a raid array before but it performs
| flawlessly in my 98 setup. The raid controller is by the
| Promise co. and is built into my motherboard. Finally,
| these two drives are SATA.
|
| Ever see this one before... or am I alone in this hellish
| little XPerience?!
|
|
|
 
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