Cant format this drive

teamhex

teamhex

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Ok, im tinkering with a friends computer. Whoever built it set it up with 2 80gig WD's. I think it was a RAID 0, a striped array or what not. Anyways It became broken and I deleted the array on each drive through some thing that popped up. Then it wouldn't pick the drive up in the bios, so I changed the setting to from Raid to IDE. Ok, now the bios sees it, however when I get into an XP install it loads everything on the blue screen, then asks, install, repair, ect ect. I hit fresh install and it says it cant find a workable disk.

So basically iv got 1 80 gig in his computer now, it shows in the bios(kinda) but I cant use the windows install to format, partition, and install.
It says "Setup did not find any hard drives installed on you computer" ....."This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program".
I don't know, I can see the drive when Im using a Boot CD, but the bios half ass shows it and windows installation doesn't see it.
Any tips?
 
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teamhex said:
Ok, im tinkering with a friends computer. Whoever built it set it up with 2 80gig WD's. I think it was a RAID 0, a striped array or what not. Anyways It became broken and I deleted the array on each drive through some thing that popped up. Then it wouldn't pick the drive up in the bios, so I changed the setting to from Raid to IDE. Ok, now the bios sees it, however when I get into an XP install it loads everything on the blue screen, then asks, install, repair, ect ect. I hit fresh install and it says it cant find a workable disk.

So basically iv got 1 80 gig in his computer now, it shows in the bios(kinda) but I cant use the windows install to format, partition, and install.
It says "Setup did not find any hard drives installed on you computer" ....."This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program".
I don't know, I can see the drive when Im using a Boot CD, but the bios half ass shows it and windows installation doesn't see it.
Any tips?
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Are you using a Pre SP1 install disk? If so, then thats your problem. The original version didn't have much support for sata drives. You need to slipstream SP2 or SP3 into a new XP install disk.
 
johnb35 said:
Are you using a Pre SP1 install disk? If so, then thats your problem. The original version didn't have much support for sata drives. You need to slipstream SP2 or SP3 into a new XP install disk.
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Its Sp2 Xp Pro, I don't know Im doing it for free anyways so screw it he can fix it :).
 
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