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« on: May 31, 2005, 07:42:14 PM »
My very 1st question is: I see there is a SATA connection and an IDE connection, do I have to plug both of them in to run a SATA harddrive because I only have the SATA cable plugged into the MB if this is the problem maybe that will solve it. So I hooked up the sata cable to the MB and to the HD and put windows xp pro corp in and went to install, it said if you have a 3rd party sata/raid drive to install press F6 now. I did so and got to the location where it told me to specify the drive. I inserted the driver disk that I got with my MB and There were like 4 selections. I tried all of them it loaded the driver started windows and asked if i wanted to install windows or press f6 for automated system recovery everytime i pressed enter there it would tell me no drive is seen. So what I tried next is I went into the SATA bios and the very 1st thing it says is; NOTICE: The number of disks is not adequate to create a RAID!!! Under all of this i says Channel: Serial_Ch0 Master WDC, Drive Name; WD800JD-75HK, Array Name; (its blank), Mode; SATA, Size (GB) 74.50, Status; Hdd. The next line says Serial_Ch1 and all the spaces are blank because I have nothing connected to that sata plug on my MB. What can I do? Thanks for reading all of this its a big project for me and I want to learn how to do it correctly!



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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2005, 07:46:42 PM »
you don't need to hook up IDE and SATA to use the drive... I think you might have just installed the wrong driver
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2005, 07:48:53 PM »
But there is 4 drivers on the motherboard disk and I tried all of them. Its obviously a western digital 80 gig sata HD I wouldnt know any other way of going about the install.
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2005, 07:49:19 PM »
Where would i fidn the correct driver?
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2005, 07:52:49 PM »
did you try installing windows without using a 3rd party driver?
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2005, 08:01:15 PM »
Yes same crap it didnt find
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2005, 08:06:57 PM »
something, possibly your BIOS, is attempting to create a RAID array, which requires at least one more hard drive... look for something about RAID arrays and make sure its disabled...
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2005, 08:42:53 PM »
It seems that way but thats only when i press tab for user console maybe thats the otion to setup an array, is there a way i can connect through the ide to install windows and then install the correct driver take out the ide connection plug in the sata and boot that way?
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2005, 08:46:30 PM »
It might be possible, but it would be a ton of work... try just sticking a second hard drive in and see if you can install windows then...
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« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2005, 08:49:49 PM »
only 2nd Hd i have is an IDE which already has windows on it
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« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2005, 09:00:00 PM »
Did you consider using two hard drives in this computer?  You don't necessarily need the SATA drive to be the primary drive... but I still don't fully understand your problem...

also, I've been wondering... why is this topic in Off Topic discussion?
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« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2005, 09:07:48 PM »
i just tried to hook up 2 HDs and its running sooooooo slow its been 10 min already in the startup process with bioa etc i dont understand this its in off topic becuase there is no hardware topic
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« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2005, 09:14:57 PM »
I'm pretty much stuck here... I'll sleep on it and see if I can think of anything...
btw...
http://testmy.net/forum/b-5
http://testmy.net/forum/b-41
http://testmy.net/forum/b-7
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