Hard Drive not detected during MCE 2005 setup...

[rikadik]

When I boot from the first of 2 CDs to setup XP Media Center Edition 2005, it says no hard drives are detected, and forces the setup process to end. I ran the diagnostic thingy from BIOS for the hard drive which reported no faults, and of course the hard drive seems to be working perfectly since I can still boot from the hard disk and do everything I usually do.

I then thought I'd try booting from my XP Home Edition CD, which DOES detect the hard drive. I'm very confused. Any ideas what may be causing this?

 

[rikadik]

BUMP

If it helps, I'm running a SATA drive on a Dell Dimension 8400.

 

[Panther505]

are you running them as a raid array? If so then you will need to have the driver disk handy and press F6 when you get the "inspecting your hardware" prompt then in a little bit it will ask you for the driver to install, put in the disk, and off you will go. My guess is that it is a newer SATA controller that MCE doesn't like.

Is the Dell on the HW Compat list?