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Hard Drive Problem HELP!

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thefish8

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I am building a new system and can't seem to get the hard drive to work properly to setup windows. Whenever I fdisk c: i get "NO FIXED DISK PRESENT." Also when I setup I get this "If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive, you will need to create an MS-DOS boot partition to set up windows."

I have created a primary boot partition on this hard drive on another system. When I run windows or type DIR on the other system it doesn't work. I then installed the hard drive back on the new system and I have the problems listed in the first paragraph. I have no other ideas so please help me.

The BIOS recognizes the hard drive.
The virus checker is disabled in the BIOS.

Here is the system:

ASUS A7A266 mainboard
1.2 GHz 266 FSB processor
Western Digital 20 gig hard drive

 
yeah its on master. The thing im not sure about is the HDD jumper on the motherboard becuase the manual was not very clear. Thanks.
 


<< The thing im not sure about is the HDD jumper on the motherboard >>


the jumper is at the back of the hdd &amp; not on the motherboard!
 
I remember that on the ABit SA6 board you had to set the HDD in 2 places

1. HDD auto detect
2. HDD enabled as a boot device

maybe your mainboard is the same in terms of multiple settings to access the drive, then the drive will not be accessable until all options are correctly set.
 
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