HDD not detected

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Hardeep

Dear Sir,

While installing Win Xp prof, it says HDD not found , pls
suggest ,

Also please note that we have an ATA 100 card attached
with the HDD.

Reply ASAP,

Rgds,
 
Probably, the driver for that hard drive card has to installed on the drive before installing xp. Go to the drive website and see
instructions. You may have to look closely and push 'f6' when prompted while installing xp to add the driver before proceeding
with xp install.
John
 
Same thing happened to me and now I cannot repair it, I am
pissed! Nothing on the Internet on how to repair this but
apparently it is not uncommon to happen.
 
I doubt this will solve the problem.
-----Original Message-----
Probably, the driver for that hard drive card has to
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installed on the drive before installing xp. Go to the
drive website and see
instructions. You may have to look closely and push 'f6'
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when prompted while installing xp to add the driver before
proceeding
 
Connect hard drive to mother board ide controller and install XP..After XP is installed, check
device manager to make sure the controller card was installed..If so, re-attach the hard drive
to the controller card and boot system..You should be up and running..
 
Hi, Hardeep.

You probably need to get the drivers for that ATA100 card onto a floppy
diskette and have it handy when you run WinXP Setup. Setup has enough
smarts to partition and format the drive and to copy lots of files to it.
The WinXP CD-ROM has built-in drivers that can handle most IDE devices that
the mainboard BIOS knows about. But, to boot WinXP from an add-on card,
Setup needs to integrate that controller driver into your copy of WinXP.
So, when Setup invites you to press F6 to install SCSI or other drivers,
press F6 and then wait while all those files get copied. Then Setup will
halt with instructions telling you how to use the floppy to install the
drivers.

RC
 
R. C. White wrote:
| Hi, Hardeep.
|
| You probably need to get the drivers for that ATA100 card onto a
| floppy diskette and have it handy when you run WinXP Setup. Setup
| has enough smarts to partition and format the drive and to copy lots
| of files to it. The WinXP CD-ROM has built-in drivers that can handle
| most IDE devices that the mainboard BIOS knows about. But, to boot
| WinXP from an add-on card, Setup needs to integrate that controller
| driver into your copy of WinXP. So, when Setup invites you to press
| F6 to install SCSI or other drivers, press F6 and then wait while all
| those files get copied. Then Setup will halt with instructions
| telling you how to use the floppy to install the drivers.
|
| RC
|
| || Dear Sir,
||
|| While installing Win Xp prof, it says HDD not found , pls
|| suggest ,
||
|| Also please note that we have an ATA 100 card attached
|| with the HDD.
||
|| Reply ASAP,
||
|| Rgds,

The BIOS will have to be set up correctly also. The
above information is correct. A controller card is a
controller card whether it is ATA 33,66,100,133,or
raid.
 
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