No disk in drive

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Mark Golding

Hello guys! Once again I leave messages all over the
internet to find reason and hope in a world over run by
neanderthal coders. Microsoft idiosyncracy number 6,453.
Now here is an error message for a single brand new Hard
Drive, identified by the BIOS OK, but negotiated by
Microsofts install wizard with the ever so helpful error
message "There is no disk in this drive".
Here we have a multi-billion dollar organisation giving
end users an error message that actually
means "gibberish".
Correct me please someone if I am wrong but is this a
sign of sloppy and unprofessional product design?
 
Philosophical speculation aside, have you via Disk Management
partitioned and formatted this gleaming new hard drive? If BIOS sees it
but Explorer doesn't (or throws up when it tries) that could be the problem.

Unpartitioned and/or unformatted hard drives are just dead oxide as far
as the higher intellectual processes of the OS are concerned. The OS
will be pretty adamant about this until you make nice.

Start/Settings/ControlPanel/AdminTools/ComputerManagement will get you
pretty close to Disk Management. Hope this helps.
 
Mark Golding said:
Hello guys! Once again I leave messages all over the
internet to find reason and hope in a world over run by
neanderthal coders. Microsoft idiosyncracy number 6,453.
Now here is an error message for a single brand new Hard
Drive, identified by the BIOS OK, but negotiated by
Microsofts install wizard with the ever so helpful error
message "There is no disk in this drive".
Here we have a multi-billion dollar organisation giving
end users an error message that actually
means "gibberish".
Correct me please someone if I am wrong but is this a
sign of sloppy and unprofessional product design?
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What could possibly be so difficult about setting up a new drive for W2K? A
hard drive that is identified in bios in no way automatically and magically
creates the partitions and then formats them for you. If you specify that
the OS should be installed in say H: without creating the underlying
partition structure, what message would you have expected to see instead?

Besides, why not try some other manufacturer's product if you feel duped by
this one. Then we'll have a chat about Installation Wizards if you like.
 
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