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re: New build not finding hard drives with XP
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 11:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ari
(1138 messages posted)
Your post is confusing. At the beginning, you seem to be saying that you just have
one hard drive. At the end, you mention two hard drives, a 120GB one and a 160GB
one.
Can you be more specific and precise about what's actually plugged into the system
in the way of hard drives, what's on the hard drives, how you have them set up (Master,
Slave, CS, which IDE cable(s), etc.)?
What EXACTLY happens when you turn the system on? Youre description is confusing.
You say it boots to ASUS boot menu, and you can alter that(?)... what does it do
EXACTLY? What message does it give you EXACTLY? That is, what are the words on
the screen? Don't summarize it. Tell us specifcally, precisely, what it's doing
and saying. Then maybe someone can provide more help.
On Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 10:56 am, Bill wrote:
>Hi Everyone. I have just about finished building my new computer but I am stuck.
>When I start the computer it boots to Asus boot menu and I can alter that, but when
>I just let it run, it asks if I want to boot windows normally. I hit enter and it
>says no hard drives found and restarts.
>My mother board is an ASUS M3A32-MVP with a AMD X2 6400+ processor.
>when I go into the Bios settings it shows the hard drive with XP on it and it shows
>the dvd drive. I have altered the boot sequence but that did not help. My hard drive
>is an IDE drive and the motherboard only has 1 IDE plug and everything else is SATA,
>which I do not have a Sata drive yet.
>A friend told me I need to format the hard drive to work with the new system but
>I really do not see how that will make the motherboard recognize the hard drive
with
>Xp on it. The book says it will work with XP operating system.
>other things that you may want to know if it helps.
>2 gig 1066mhz ram
>NVidia 8800gts
>Zalman cooler
>550 watt power supply ( updating soon)
>120 gig Western digital HD
>160 gig Western digital HD
>
>Can anyone help me??
>
>Thanks Bill
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