Trouble formating harddrive on used system

[Gadzookie]

i recently purchased a system from a friend of mines for 400 bucks it has a

Unknown Athlon XP processor but its clocked at 2.4 ghz
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Socket A NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 ATX AMD Motherboard
and a geforce 6800 ultra AGP

not bad for 400 bucks huh ? anyway here is my problem i wanna do a fresh format on it but i cant

also the hardrive is a SCSI hardrive i am not familer with those drives ? im only use to IDE and SATA

when i try to format it wont detect the hardrive and does not allow me to format and install fresh i cant tell the name of the hardrive either can anyone help me :-(

i can get into windows xp just fine just wont let install a new copy :-(

btw the computer speaks to me during bios ! during the boot sequence it says " loading Operating system through my speakers wierd huh never had that before on my old comps ! would that be th emotherbaord or a third party program ?

thanks for any help

 

[jackschmittusa]

The hd is connected to a SCSI controller. You need to load the drivers for it for an OS to see it.

 

[Gadzookie]

where would i get drivers for that at ?

 

[jackschmittusa]

Controller manufacturer's site.

 

[Gadzookie]

how would i get the name of the hardrive or controller :-(

 

[Gadzookie]

ok here is a pic of the harddrive properties

http://www.geocities.com/sgadzookie/Image1.jpg

at first i thought it was a SCSI hardrive cuase nt he properties it says SCSI so i got the model number and check up on seagate for the drivers

model number st380013 as

but it apears to be a reguler seagate barracuda hardrive SATA
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/sata/st380013as.html
so is this hardrive scsi or sata ?
when i looked inside it connects straight to the motherboard

now is this the right drivers for this hardrive im confused ? i want to format this bad boy already hehe

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

again thank you all for your help


ok i made a floppy with hopefually the right bios now when i press f6 to load it from the floppy it says that it cannot find TXTSETUP.OEM and i can install windows xp :-( i dont know what to do

 

[boomerang]

Did you copy the .zip file to the floppy? You have to unzip it and copy all the files.

Hint: You did it right if there is an TXTSETUP.OEM file in the mix.

 

[Gadzookie]

on the seagate website there is a program that makes the disk for you that is what i did did i do it wrong ?

 

[boomerang]

I'm sorry I didn't take note of your seagate link in your earlier post. You need drivers from the Asus website specific to your board.

And the Asus site is not cooperating right at this moment. Looks like they've changed their support pages and are having some problems.

 

[bwnv]

Correct, you need the sata drivers from Asus. And it is the motherboard talking to you, I have the same one. If you want you can disable it in the bios (press delete key while booting)

 

[boomerang]

Here's a link for the drivers.

This file includes a SATA utility also. You'll have to look through the folders to find what you need.

The manual talks about a Promise controller and the downloads page refers to a SIlicon Image controller. Good luck with this one! :Q

Maybe I'm looking at something wrong.