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re: Sata hard drive can't be found by XP Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 9:07 am Posted by Ricer46 (22823 messages posted) You need to install the drivers for it. When you are prompted to hit F6 near the beginning of the installation, you must do so. Later it will prompt you to insert a floppy drive with the SATA drivers. You must copy these from the motherboard CD to a floppy disk ahead of time. On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 8:55 am, Wayne Luu wrote: >Dear all, > When I try to reinstall the computer, which I am sure the bios can find the serial >hard drive, the Windows XP just says that there is no hard drive hooked up to the >computer. I am sure everything is OK with the hardware. What's going on? Thank >you. > Wayne [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sata hard drive can't be found by XP Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 9:08 am Posted by Erik (3103 messages posted) Did you partition the hard drive first? Did you try pressing F6 to install a 3rd party adapter? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sata hard drive can't be found by XP Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 9:09 am Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) You need to put the SATA drivers on diskette then press F6 when installing XP and load the SATA drrivers. Then install can complete. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sata hard drive can't be found by XP Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 11:00 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7130 messages posted) Did this computer come with XP preinstalled at the factory? If so, perhaps you should be following the manufacturer's directions on reinstalling the Operating System. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum