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I've got a wierd hard drive problem....

JC

JC

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Maybe one of my TeAmmates can help me, nobody in GH seems to have an answer. Here's my thread: link

Basically, I repartitioned my HD, but WinXP setup still seems to see the old partitions as 'unknown drives'. I'm totally frustrated and out of ideas. The drive was working fine until I decided to repartition it, it's less than a year old.

Help please!

JC
 
I think if you go to Administrative Tools -> Computer Management then right click on 'Disk Management' you can do a rescan and it will make them recognized. If it isn't the rescan command, it is one of them (or maybe you have to right-click on the partition and do a command there)

Good Luck

-Sid

afterthought: are your new partitions formatted? (hint, hint)
 
uh oh....

I just read the linky you put to your original thread..... Ok, so we weren't even close. 😱

I misunderstood and thought Windows was giving you trouble, didn't notice it is on the install (yeah, you told us.... oops) that the drives aren't recognized.

I don't have SATA drives, so I am pretty useless there except.....

I have read several posts that indicated if you are installing windowsXP to an SATA drive, make sure you have no IDE drives plugged in during the install.

I also have read posts reminding people that you need to have your SATA drivers ready on a floppy and hit F6 when prompted for drivers (at the very bottom of the screen, very early in the install process)

So now you have more (albeit totally noobish) ideas to try...

Sorry I'm not being more helpful.. If I could I would 😉

-Sid

I'm assuming you already tried Mondo's suggestion of turning off the RAID function in BIOS since you are not using it.
 
Well....no, it's actually just a single HD. By 'drives' I meant the 'virtual' drives, i.e. the old partitions.

Odd thing is, I had no problems installing the SATA drive when new on Win98SE....and my Win98 that's mirrored on my SCSI raid says I partitioned the SATA drive just like I intended! 😕
 
Sid's got it....forgot to install the SATA driver during XP install 😱

Thanks all for the replies!



JC
 
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