P4C800-E Delux, winxp set up cant find ide drive

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drive shows up in bios, but when runnin win xp set up does not see the
drive, any ideas?
 
Have your formatted it yet?
Start -> Admin Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management.
(Admin tools are in the control panel too).
 
formated, took it from my other computer

Tim said:
Have your formatted it yet?
Start -> Admin Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management.
(Admin tools are in the control panel too).
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Need info then...

Is the drive a SATA disc and is the controller set to RAID mode? If so, do
you have the RAID drivers installed? Alternatively, set it to non-raid if
that is the case.

Can you see the drive in Device Manager? If not, it is a bios config issue &
likely either set as RAID, or maybe set as SATA Native mode and / or you do
not have device drivers installed.

Can you see the drive in Disk Maanagement? If yes then let us know + what
file system(s) does it have?

If the drive is not a SATA disc, then let us know is it IDE? Is it set to
Master or Slave or Cable Select? What make is the drive? Where is it plugged
in?

- Tim
 
Tim said:
Need info then...

Is the drive a SATA disc and is the controller set to RAID mode? If so, do
you have the RAID drivers installed? Alternatively, set it to non-raid if
that is the case.
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connected 2xIDE to IDE raid controller, configured raid in bios, bios
recoqnized raid shows it as functional, started win xp set up and pressed F6
to load the drivers with no effect set up was continuing instullation until
the message that setup cant detect any drives, then tried to connect single
IDE drive to main IDE controller, same thing, drive shows up in bios but
when running win xp set up it cant detect the drive.
Tried both ways RAID mode and non raid.

Can you see the drive in Device Manager? If not, it is a bios config issue
& likely either set as RAID, or maybe set as SATA Native mode and / or you
do not have device drivers installed.
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cant go to device manager because win xp is not installed, win xp set up
cant detect the drive, and the drive shows in bios fine
Can you see the drive in Disk Maanagement? If yes then let us know + what
file system(s) does it have? win xp not installed

If the drive is not a SATA disc, then let us know is it IDE? Is it set to
Master or Slave or Cable Select? What make is the drive? Where is it
plugged in?
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in 2x ide mode one drive is master, second one slave, shows as functional
raid in bios but win xp set up cant detect it and F6 does not works,
connected to IDE raid controller, 2 ibm 40 gig IDE drives

in 1 IDE drive mode, set as master, connected to main IDE controller,
sumsung 120 gig drive
 
If the RAID controller is in RAID mode, you must install the RAID drivers.
When Windows setup starts, press F6 early and often.
Make sure you have up to date RAID drivers, and since this is a new install,
check your BIOS version too.
Make sure you see visual confirmation that the RAID drivers have been
loaded.
You will be asked a second time if you have drivers to install if the first
drivers have been loaded correctly.
If you continue setup without the RAID drivers you cannot expect windows to
be able to see your drives. The exact behaviour you will get when only 1
drive is installed depends on the controller, but you are invariably
required to install the driver.

HTH & BOL
- Tim
 
First make sure your IDE drive is connected to the IDE
controller (connector beside the memory sockets)and not to the
promise RAID socket.
What I always do for a clean XP setup, I remove or disable any
disk controller that is not needed for the boot device (RAID
etc).
Load set up default in the BIOS.
Make sure your drive shows up in the BIOS screen.
Go to Boot menue-boot device priority and check if your drive
shows up as second boot device, 1st should be floppy.
Reboot, and your Win XP shoudl find the drive.
If you want to install to RAID you have to physically remove any
non RAID disks or Win XP will set the non RAID disk as active
boot drive.

Good luck,
Crashpilot
 
Igorek, on other topic... what vide card you're using with thin mo/bo?
Can you access freely BIOS? I have a problem with this mo/bo
using ATi Radeon 9550 Shappire card....


Igoryek said:
i followed all the steps, win xp does not see the drive
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using radeon 9700, can access bios fine, but when installing win xp F6 does
not work



-;) said:
Igorek, on other topic... what vide card you're using with thin mo/bo?
Can you access freely BIOS? I have a problem with this mo/bo
using ATi Radeon 9550 Shappire card....
Click to expand...
 
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