Cannot Reformat with Windows XP

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motherrussia

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I'm trying to reformat my computer with Windows XP but it won't recognize that I have a hard drive installed. The funny thing is that my bios recognizes my hard drive.

Somebody told me that I should install a third party SCSI driver but why? My motherboard has sata slots and im not using RAID to connect two hard drives so im not sure why i would need to do that.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
The same thing kind of happened to me although I was trying to install Vista. Ended up installing XP on a different hard drive. I thought the hard drive I tried installing Vista on was bust so I bought a brand new one but turned out the Windows Vista CD was busted.

I don't know why XP won't recognize your hard drive though. Is your XP CD in good condition? Is your hard drive running OK? Ever had any problems with it? If all seem OK, I don't know what to suggest.
 
I never had any problem with my harddrive. My XP is not a pirated version. I reset my bios and still the same problem is persisting.

The thing is, when i built the computer the way that it recognized my harddrive is by installing the SCSI driver from ASUS. The only version that seems to be not corrupt on my diskette is the one for windows 2000. Then XP will work for a little bit and then the pc reboots everytime it gets past the windows xp screen.

I checked the ram and that is not the problem, maybe its time for a new rig
 
XP doesn't come ready with a SATA driver. You need to download a generic SATA driver and slipstream it into the XP disk using nLite.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
XP doesn't come ready with a SATA driver. You need to download a generic SATA driver and slipstream it into the XP disk using nLite.
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i never used a SATA driver when i was using XP, is it one of those things where its pop luck if it will work with a driver?
 
So i can use any scsi driver? Not one that's specific to Asus? I'm having a little trouble finding one from Asus that's supposed to be for my motherboard (k8u-x).

And i'm not familiar with nLite or how i would go about using it.
 
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