WD Raptor Owners plz help!

[MegaWorks]

I bought the Raptor 74GB yesterday installed everything, but the problem is when I boot Windows XP CD it doesn't support my drives partition??? oh yes I also have two WD400BB 40GB hard drives in IDE1 both on slave jumpers.

My System

EDIT: Sorry guys should have been more specific, I did install the drivers by pressing F6 and the bios did detected the Drive it's when you select a partition that Windows refuse to accept the drive.

Windows say that: This drive doesn't support windows partition select one of the fellowing drives "my IDE drives". I can select my IDE drives to install but not the SATA port because it's on a RAID chip.

Oh I did try it on a master/slave basic and it gave the same message.

 

[dopefishzzz]

You need to press F6 at the begining of the installation, and put the SATA Drivers in your A: Drive so Windows can recognize the RAPTORS.

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: dopefishzzz
You need to press F6 at the begining of the installation, and put the SATA Drivers in your A: Drive so Windows can recognize the RAPTORS.

:shocked:

 

[MobiusPizza]

Windows XP SP2 should have SATA support??
Does the old version (SP1 or bare XP) support SATA?

 

[edmundoab]

got the sata drivers installed?

 

[PokerGuy]

If you're not using RAID, you should be able to install windows XP SP2 onto WD Raptor without having to install special drivers. I'm not sure about the previous versions of winders though (SP1, XP).

I installed XP SP2 on my raptor without installing additional drivers.

 

[Horsepower]

I've ALWAYS used the F6 driver, even on 64 bit XP. It seems weird that Mega has 2 drives set to slave on IDE1. That doesn't sound Kosher.

 

[Deinonych]

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
If you're not using RAID, you should be able to install windows XP SP2 onto WD Raptor without having to install special drivers. I'm not sure about the previous versions of winders though (SP1, XP).

I installed XP SP2 on my raptor without installing additional drivers.

Same here. No issues whatsoever.

[edit] Try disconnecting your IDE drives when you install XP, so that the Raptor is the only device choice for installation. Also, you need to have your IDE drives in a master/slave configuration for them to work properly. Your IDE and SATA interfaces are completely independant of each other.

 

[Greenman]

You can't have 2 slave drives on the same ide channel. Windows needed a driver when I set up my raptors.

 

[shiranai]

Raptor installed fine on my machine (XP Pro corp. edition, sp1a).

Is there any possibility that this is a BIOS issue?

 

[RichUK]

i did not need any drivers what so ever when using my raptor, and i installed XP without any SP's or updates already on it, this is becasue you do NOT need drivers, you will only need them for RAID arrays.

I would recommend that you just install the Raptor and then try and install the OS, without the IDE HDD plugged in, as some one above has advised, also makse sure in the BIOS that the specific SATA port that you are using is enabled in the BIOS..

 

[7earitup]

It depends on the motherboard. I had to install SATA drivers before Windows XP installation for it to detect my SATA drive. Not a big deal.

 

[MegaWorks]

Sorry guys should have been more specific, I did install the drivers by pressing F6 and the bios did detected the Drive it's when you select a partition that Windows refuse to accept the drive.

Windows say that: This drive doesn't support windows partition select one of the fellowing drives "my IDE drives". I can select my IDE drives to install but not the SATA port because it's on a RAID chip.

Oh I did try it on a master/slave basic and it gave the same message.

 

[MegaWorks]

Do I need to change the raptor jumpers?

 

[RichUK]

i would definitely check you BIOS settings as this will be telling windows what it is, i presume that you havn't selected some sort of RAID array like RAID 0 so it is affectivly looking for another drive ??

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: RichUK
i would definitely check you BIOS settings as this will be telling windows what it is, i presume that you havn't selected some sort of RAID array like RAID 0 so it is affectivly looking for another drive ??

No everything is on default, but I've been having problems with my NF7-S v.2 "reboot problems of that sort."

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Omg I just had this EXACT same problem except without a Raptor. I had to disconnected my IDE drive to install Windows on my SATA RAID. Try it, it should work

 

[RichUK]

if it was brand new then the leave the jumper on the same setting it was when you received it

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
Omg I just had this EXACT same problem except without a Raptor. I had to disconnected my IDE drive to install Windows on my SATA RAID. Try it, it should work

LMAO! :laugh: I'll try it.

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: RichUK
if it was brand new then the leave the jumper on the same setting it was when you received it

It's a new drive.

 

[SVT Cobra]

unplug your IDE drives....wehn I installed my 4 raptors I used f6 with no probs...But I have heard of sp2 and 1 problems with SATA not being recognized because of IDEdrives.

 

[Blain]

I've never used F6 to install Windows XP on my Raptor.

 

[MegaWorks]

Ok it worked after removing the drives, but now I made even a bigger error and I need to format the raptor how the hell do you do that now! I'm so FVCKING PISSED!!!!!:|

I get this error now :c000221 unknow hard error

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Ok it worked after removing the drives, but now I made even a bigger error and I need to format the raptor how the hell do you do that now! I'm so FVCKING PISSED!!!!!:|

I get this error now :c000221 unknow hard error

because it is a brand new hard drive it will obviously not be formated to any filing system (eg. FAT32 or NTFS), when you are installing the OS in the blue screen it will prompt you to format the hard drive on either a quick or full format for NTFS or FAT32, choose full NTFS and then carry on with the install, and you should be fine ..

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: MegaWorks
Ok it worked after removing the drives, but now I made even a bigger error and I need to format the raptor how the hell do you do that now! I'm so FVCKING PISSED!!!!!:|

I get this error now :c000221 unknow hard error

because it is a brand new hard drive it will obviously not be formated to any filing system (eg. FAT32 or NTFS), when you are installing the OS in the blue screen it will prompt you to format the hard drive on either a quick or full format for NTFS or FAT32, choose full NTFS and then carry on with the install, and you should be fine ..

I did that but during the installation, I reset the computer because I forgot to creat two partition on the same drive and now I can't get to the format screen. So I need to format it, I don't even know the new drive letter. I'm so fvcked :|