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Hi,
I'd appreciate some help. I'm sure this has been discussed many times
before, but I need some help.
I've just completed building a new PC (first PC I've built for aroiund
7 years) based on the following:
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
Athlon Barton XP 2800+
Hightech Excalabur Radeon 9600XT
Maxtor 6Y080MO Plus 9 80 Gb SATA HDD
Everything has gone well up until attempting to install Windows XP. I
have set the BIOS so that the HDD drive on boot-up is SATI. I have
formatted the drive successfully using the 'Easy installation' set-up
in MaxBlast 3 ( I only need one partition) and selecting Windows XP as
my future O/S. MaxBlast then tells me to remove the MaxBlast disk and
re-boot to install XP.
When I re-boot the Windows XP intsallation CD begins the process then
tells me that I do not have a formatted Hard drive available.
What do I need to do? My BIOS recognizes the formatted drive.
Does the MaxBlast 3 disk contain SATI drivers that I need to retain
during the XP installation? I can't move directly from a MaxBlast
boot-up to the Windows CD set-up because the MaxBlast floppy doesn't
contain any CD ROM Atapi drivers. However, I guess that I could quite
easily put the Atapi drivers there if that's what's needed.
Any help appreciated.
Harry
I'd appreciate some help. I'm sure this has been discussed many times
before, but I need some help.
I've just completed building a new PC (first PC I've built for aroiund
7 years) based on the following:
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
Athlon Barton XP 2800+
Hightech Excalabur Radeon 9600XT
Maxtor 6Y080MO Plus 9 80 Gb SATA HDD
Everything has gone well up until attempting to install Windows XP. I
have set the BIOS so that the HDD drive on boot-up is SATI. I have
formatted the drive successfully using the 'Easy installation' set-up
in MaxBlast 3 ( I only need one partition) and selecting Windows XP as
my future O/S. MaxBlast then tells me to remove the MaxBlast disk and
re-boot to install XP.
When I re-boot the Windows XP intsallation CD begins the process then
tells me that I do not have a formatted Hard drive available.
What do I need to do? My BIOS recognizes the formatted drive.
Does the MaxBlast 3 disk contain SATI drivers that I need to retain
during the XP installation? I can't move directly from a MaxBlast
boot-up to the Windows CD set-up because the MaxBlast floppy doesn't
contain any CD ROM Atapi drivers. However, I guess that I could quite
easily put the Atapi drivers there if that's what's needed.
Any help appreciated.
Harry