NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP

[gw]

I thought he said new hard drive? 10GB new? New, when?

Have you tried the hard drive in the other system you pulled the cable from?
Is it recognized there?



Have you tried the Hard drive in the system you grabbed the cable from?

 

[Guest]

Hi Andrew: I have a new Compac that is only several months old. A few weeks ago I got the same message. The store wanted me to bring it in saying it was probably a bad haard drive. But having build several systems i didn't believe that

I open the case and disconnected and reconected all the cables

When I turned it back on it ran great, and still does

Hope this helps

Bill Mc Nulty
----- Andrew Bestfrenn wrote: ----

I am installing a new hard drive onto a syste
w/ asus A7V133 motherboard
Trying to format it and install winxp
I have made a boot disk that includes smartdrive.ex

When it is booting u
it says: detecting primary master (press F4 to skip
detecting secondary master (press F4 to skip

etc. and then lists all drives as not ther
ie: primary master: non
etc.

It then is able to boot to the DOS promp
but that is as far as I can go. Cannot get to th
D: prompt, because it has not detected drive D (cd ROM
none of the commands wor
A:>FORMAT does not wor
FORMAT/ u does not wor
FORMAT / s does not wor
FDISK does not wor
please hel
how do I get it to detect my hard drive etc
on bootup? I think it is a bios setting o
some kind

 

[Frau Himmel]

Why are you responding to me nitwit.

Because you have a Pussy?


rau Himmel
Still trying to outrun the death grip clutches of The Strangler

 

[Guest]

----- Andrew Bestfrenn wrote: ----

I am installing a new hard drive onto a syste
w/ asus A7V133 motherboard
Trying to format it and install winxp
I have made a boot disk that includes smartdrive.ex

When it is booting u
it says: detecting primary master (press F4 to skip
detecting secondary master (press F4 to skip

etc. and then lists all drives as not ther
ie: primary master: non
etc.

It then is able to boot to the DOS promp
but that is as far as I can go. Cannot get to th
D: prompt, because it has not detected drive D (cd ROM
none of the commands wor
A:>FORMAT does not wor
FORMAT/ u does not wor
FORMAT / s does not wor
FDISK does not wor
please hel
how do I get it to detect my hard drive etc
on bootup? I think it is a bios setting o
some kind

 

[Guest]

Trying to follow all of this chain. Wow what drama. The question I have is have you been able to get back into the bios yet? If you haven't, you might want to try going to the Asus website and seeing if there is a bios update for your mother board. It usually has a boot utitlty with it. Hope this helps.

Anthony