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Windows will not recognize my SATA drive.

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ZionHalcyon

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I bought a Samsung OEM SATA 120 GB drive that I want to install WinXP on. I have tried making a driver disk which I have loaded during a CD install of WinXP, only for my drive not to be seen. I also have tried Seagate's drivemagic (I think that is what it is called) and formatted the drive, and still nada. I've tried dos and Fdisk, and that only sees 2 GB.

Anyone have any suggestions?
 
ZionHalcyon said:
I bought a Samsung OEM SATA 120 GB drive that I want to install WinXP on. I have tried making a driver disk which I have loaded during a CD install of WinXP, only for my drive not to be seen. I also have tried Seagate's drivemagic (I think that is what it is called) and formatted the drive, and still nada. I've tried dos and Fdisk, and that only sees 2 GB.

Anyone have any suggestions?
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If you wanted to install XP, you should have a driver disk then on the starting part of the setup, hit F6 when prompted. This will install the needed drivers for the SATA controller.
 
Xilikon said:
If you wanted to install XP, you should have a driver disk then on the starting part of the setup, hit F6 when prompted. This will install the needed drivers for the SATA controller.
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I have tried making a driver disk which I have loaded during a CD install of WinXP
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Been tried.
 
I read that but wanna make sure it was not in another place. I dunno what is the exact problem so i'll let others help you because i never see this on my years of installations.
 
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