WD1600JD-00HBB0 hard drive (SATA 160 gb drive) ASUS A7V600 Motherboard reformatting

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For the love of all things good someone help me reformat my computer.

I have a WD1600JD-00HBB0 hard drive (SATA 160 gb drive). My motherboard is an ASUS A7V600

I am trying to reformat it, but it simply won't let me like my old IDE hard drive did.

I have the windows CD in, the boot order changed to CD first. I pressed the F6 for 3rd party RAID/SATA drivers, then I tried to load the driver from:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...D=DIM_PNT_P4_8400&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

I formatted the floppy disk, then double clicked the .exe driver and loaded it onto the floppy.

When I restarted and put the A drive in (after pressing F6 and then S for drivers) the computer asks me if I want to install windows so I press enter and then it tells me it can't see any attached hard drives and to make sure everything is plugged in and configured correctly.

I have reformatted this drive before but I had an old floppy disc that had the correct drivers on it. I don't remember if it was a driver specifically for the hard drive itself or if it was for the motherboard. I have since lost the floppy disc and can't find the correct drivers online, or even a how-to instructional page.

I am about to tear my hard drive out and whip the motherboard with the power cables. Please someone save my computer from this sad and terrible fate.
 
The hard drive boots up into windows just fine, only when I go to reinstall windows it can't seem to "see" it. Thats what I need the floppy for.

I have been reading online that I can get the drivers off the motherboard support CD and put them onto a floppy. I'm not sure that I have the CD though.

Any ideas where I can get the a7v600 motherboard CD online?
 
You boot of the windows CD and install that, then boot into the OS and install the drivers.

and do a google search for the drivers.
 
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Zapins said:
For the love of all things good someone help me reformat my computer.

I have a WD1600JD-00HBB0 hard drive (SATA 160 gb drive). My motherboard is an ASUS A7V600

I am trying to reformat it, but it simply won't let me like my old IDE hard drive did.

I have the windows CD in, the boot order changed to CD first. I pressed the F6 for 3rd party RAID/SATA drivers, then I tried to load the driver from:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...D=DIM_PNT_P4_8400&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

I formatted the floppy disk, then double clicked the .exe driver and loaded it onto the floppy.

When I restarted and put the A drive in (after pressing F6 and then S for drivers) the computer asks me if I want to install windows so I press enter and then it tells me it can't see any attached hard drives and to make sure everything is plugged in and configured correctly.

I have reformatted this drive before but I had an old floppy disc that had the correct drivers on it. I don't remember if it was a driver specifically for the hard drive itself or if it was for the motherboard. I have since lost the floppy disc and can't find the correct drivers online, or even a how-to instructional page.

I am about to tear my hard drive out and whip the motherboard with the power cables. Please someone save my computer from this sad and terrible fate.
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You need to change your settings in BIOS for hard drive to ata instead of SATA then windows will let you finish...Even though you are using a sata drive..
 
I had same problem with my son's Dell and it drove me nuts for about 3 days till I found 1 note in a forum stating such and it worked liked a charm...Good Luck
 
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