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Cant find c drive in cmos in scsi system?

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Chas

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I am attempting to format the drive of A HP kayak ka The drive is a scsi when I attempt to format it shows no C drive In the cmos It shows no hard drive What settings must I use to get the drive recognoized and formatted The system is no longer part of the netwoerk The ribbon cable goeds to a NIC car scsi controller card in a pci slot thanks Chas x can
 
Being a SCSI card, you should put its drivers on a floppy diskette, start Windows Setup from your Windows CD (assuming you're using Windows), and press F6 promptly when it says to press F6 if you have any SCSI drivers on floppy, right at the beginning. When Setup has gotten going, you'll be able to feed it the drivers for the SCSI card, and then you'll be offered the chance to format the drive as usual.
 
Hi it had win 2000 on it before But now it says no OS When it starts up it says hit f6 for symbios but iIt talks about adapter setings?
 
Put your Windows2000 CD in the drive and boot from it. At the first blue screen of Win2000 Setup, press F6. While it does its thing, go put the SCSI card's drivers on a floppy diskette. When you're prompted for the SCSI card's drivers, put the floppy in. Setup will proceed some more and then you can partition and format the hard drive.
 
Hi I do not have a windows 2000 strartup disc so I used a win 98se it loaded the cd drivers but when I typed D:/ setup with windows 2000 disc in it says no fixed discs present .
I have xp on cd with all the floppies should I try that ???
This system was from a network that my freinds wife connected to a company using cable it hade NETBIOS whatever it is and used to connect only over the lan.....its a HP kayak XA is it possible that without the network it wont work?? Chas
 
You have a Windows2000 CD, or not? I'm confused.

If you do have a Windows2000 CD, then set the system's BIOS to boot from CD-ROM. When it sees the Win2000 CD in the drive, it'll prompt "Press any key to boot from CD..." and you hold the A, N, and Y keys down to spell ANY, and it boots from the Win2000 CD.


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And then the first blue Setup screen is going to say "Press F6 if you have third-party drivers" or something along those lines, so you do that right there. Later on it will ask for the SCSI card's drivers on floppy, as a result of you pressing F6 here. WinXP will behave the same way.
 
Hi Sorry I am a pain I had win 200 delete all partitions ( it had its own scsi drivers) I then took out the disk and attempted to put in win 98 I will follow your steps now I am on the verge of a breakthrough but hitting f6 did not do anything Stay tuned pleeease regards Chas
 
Win98 won't fly unless you do some Interesting Stuff to the Win98 setup floppy, because it doesn't have the SCSI drivers and without the SCSI drivers, you can't partition and format the hard drive... it's on the far side of the SCSI card. I'm afraid I don't know the details on the Interesting Stuff that you do to the Win98 setup floppy. Trying to run Win98 on a Kayak workstation seems sort of twisted, anyway.

Worst-case scenario, throw an IDE hard drive in there 🙂
 
The scsi drive won't show up in the normal bios. You should be able to see it in the scsi bios. If the drive is showing up properly in the scsi bios, then 98 fdisk will find it without loading any drivers. You could use a 98 boot disk to format the drive then. Win2k/xp run through a large list of scsi controllers on the install, and may have that controller already. If not, you will have to load the drivers when you install.
 
What or where would the scsi bios look like /be at . ? I wound up hooking a 2 gb hardrive with windows preinstalled on it and all works well . I may just go out and pick up a 20 gb drive and pull out the seagate scsi .. thanks to all ! Chas
 
During the system's boot process, you usually see the motherboard POSTing first (maybe you see a big HP logo on this system, though). Then it's the SCSI card's turn and it looks at its busses and enumerates what devices you've got. With my Adaptec, it says to press Ctrl-A to enter the SCSI card's BIOS, for instance.

After the SCSI card does this, then your system tries to boot. If the motherboard is set to boot from IDE, then it tries that. If it's set to boot from the SCSI card, then it hands off to the SCSI card and the SCSI card tries to boot from whichever SCSI drive has been identified as the boot drive in the SCSI BIOS.
 
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