What the heck does this mean????

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I have done many reformats and installs. But ran into a different problem.
The owner bought XP and wants to replace Vista
on a relatively new Gateway. I saved the data. But when I get to the XP
setup where I normally delete the partition and reinstall, I am only being
shown "Unknown Disk (There is no disk in this drive.)"

It says that 4 times
one above the other. I have never seen that message. I happened to have
another SATA of exactly the same size and blank so I put it in the computer
and was going to try installing to it. I get the same message.

I looked in Setup but can't find any setting that would cause this.

The message seems to indicate that I am trying to install to an optical
drive...
???

What does this mean????????????


Thanks!!!!!!!
marcy
 
There are four card slots in this tower so apparently, they are being shown
as empty and that's fine, but I am not being show the C drive.
How can that be??
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "marcy said:
I have done many reformats and installs. But ran into a different problem.
The owner bought XP and wants to replace Vista
on a relatively new Gateway. I saved the data. But when I get to the XP
setup where I normally delete the partition and reinstall, I am only being
shown "Unknown Disk (There is no disk in this drive.)"

It says that 4 times
one above the other. I have never seen that message. I happened to have
another SATA of exactly the same size and blank so I put it in the computer
and was going to try installing to it. I get the same message.

I looked in Setup but can't find any setting that would cause this.

The message seems to indicate that I am trying to install to an optical
drive...
???

What does this mean????????????


Thanks!!!!!!!
marcy
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Find an old DOS copy of FDISK, and delete any partitions.
Then start over.
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "marcy said:
There are four card slots in this tower so apparently, they are being shown
as empty and that's fine, but I am not being show the C drive.
How can that be??
Click to expand...
Does the BIOS show the drive?
 
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