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Windows Install says "No Drives"?

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d34dly

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Like it says. I am trying to install windows during boot (I just installed a new 36b Raptor drive) and it says no drives detected. The drives all show during POST, and they show up if I boot from the windows install on my other drive. Any ideas?
 
need to put the floppy in and load the drivers for the sata controller during the install process.
 
Make sure Enhanced Mode > PATA + SATA under IDE Configuration is selected ANF that IDE Bus Master is selected (can't recall what section it's under).
 
Torquemada XP said:
Make sure Enhanced Mode > PATA + SATA under IDE Configuration is selected ANF that IDE Bus Master is selected (can't recall what section it's under).
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it varies alot with the BIOS as to which options there are
as far as the SATA driver, you will be prompted to press F6 to add addition SCSI drivers
thats your clue ;)
It will chung along it merry way for a bit and then prompt you for the floppy

also you would likely set the boot order in the BIOS to SCSI
(if your actually trying to boot to the SATA) :p

what your attempting is a bit unclear
from the physical config to which drive and type of drive (SATA\PATA\RAID) your attempting to install to
whether it the sole install, a second install or a dual boot
 
Ice Czar said:
it varies alot with the BIOS as to which options there are
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True, but I was referring specifically to BIOS options for the P4C800, since I've owned both it and the newer P4C800-E and had to run the troubleshooting gauntlet myself. I had similar problems, and ensuring the two options I listed were set correctly fixed it for me.

He shouldn't need to install any SATA drivers unless he's running a RAID setup, since single-drive SATA support is already built into Windows XP.

Also, to the thread poster: if you're using the 36 GB Raptor as the boot drive, it should be listed as the 3rd IDE drive on the first BIOS settings screen.
 
Ok... It seems that I need to load the drivers. I already had P-ATA + S-ATA selected.

I am just tryng to make the Raptor my new boot drive, and use the 200gb I have as a storage drive.
 
Just did this yesterday. Put the SATA drivers on a disk, press F6 at the beginning of the Windows install. Follow the directions.

And as Ice Czar said, you have to set SCSI in your boot order to boot from SATA. This had me stumped for awhile.
 
There is nothing in the BIOS that allows me to change to SCSI.

Now things are even more messed up. I installed, but now it won't boot from that drive. could this just be my board?
 
unlikely

there would definately be a SCSI option in the boot order
thats true with all modern BIOS Ive seen, what if your not using ATA at all?

d34dly said:
Now things are even more messed up. I installed, but now it won't boot from that drive.
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was there another HDD with an OS install on it?
and it was detected during the install?
in that case the target drive for the new OS install isnt a System Partition and lacks the ntldr and boot.ini

so you cant bootstrap from it, just boot to it via the boot.ini
(the window that pops up asking which install you want to boot to)
 
Well there probably is an option I just haven't found it or it is worded strangely.

Umm yeah there is another install. Should I remove the other drive first or what should I do to fix it? Just move those files over?

I used the software with the drive and just moved over the install from one drive to the other.
 
so you cloned the old HDD to the new one?
that would have transfered the ntldr (nt as in NTFS ldr as in Loader)
but its not a file you can directly access form inside the OS as it needs to be written to a specific location on the HDD

if the BIOS was actually configured to boot to the SATA (which it might not be)
you could boot to the CDROM and the recovery console and write it to the drive


let me simplify this to describe how a simple dual boot with 2 IDE HDDs each with an OS install would work

if you have an install already and you want to create another when you start the install you are asked if you want to repair the current one detected or install to another partition or HDD

when you elect to install to the other HDD, the orignal HDD maintains the ntldr and the boot.ini, which is a set of instructiion of where the new install is, but the new HDD lacks the bootstrap to independently boot, so if you remove the original install, your busted
all that happens on that HDD (the old one) is that a new entry is added to the boot.ini, but you always actually start the computer from that HDD, then you "boot" into one OS or another using the boot.ini

now if you change the boot order to point to the new install and the option to boot to other devices is diabled your also busted, if its enabled, it looks to the new install HDD and finds nothing then boot to the old one anyway

if you want to cross boot from one OS to another irregardless of the boot order in the BIOS
you install both OSs independently with the other HDD detached, then you edit the boot.ini manually to point to the other HDD, so you get a cross dual boot, your able to execute from either HDD

right now Im not sure exactly what your situartion is, considering we have the added complexity of the SATA, bus manager options, and the apperant lack of a SCSI option in the boot order :p

what Id try is, detach the old HDD
boot to the CDROM w\ the install CD
Acess the recovery console
and repair the boot sector

then try to boot to the SATA with the other HDD gone

if we can manage that, 1st well sort the rest out presently ;)
 
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