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Hello all. I need your help please. Wasn't sure if I should post this in hard drive section or OS because it involves both. Sorry if wrong.
I’m installing XP on a machine that has what I thought was a SATA drive. The drive is a Samsung HD160JJ and is shown on Samsung’s site as a PATA drive.
It’s a Dell XPS machine and when I run a non-Dell XP Pro setup on it, it fails to see the drive and I’m forced to cancel XP install.
I tried a Maxtor SATA drive that I had and the same thing happened….XP failed to see the drive and made me cancel install.
I find it funny that XP install failed to see both drives as I’ve never had this happen before. Does this sound like a motherboard/BIOS issue or could it be that both drives require the third party drivers? (F6 option in XP setup)
Anyway, I contacted Samsung and they directed me to a tool called “ES Tools” which they said I needed to boot from and it will reformat the drive and then XP will see it upon install. How can reformatting a drive change the way XP install sees it?
I would appreciate any suggestions here and thanks for taking the time to read!
I’m installing XP on a machine that has what I thought was a SATA drive. The drive is a Samsung HD160JJ and is shown on Samsung’s site as a PATA drive.
It’s a Dell XPS machine and when I run a non-Dell XP Pro setup on it, it fails to see the drive and I’m forced to cancel XP install.
I tried a Maxtor SATA drive that I had and the same thing happened….XP failed to see the drive and made me cancel install.
I find it funny that XP install failed to see both drives as I’ve never had this happen before. Does this sound like a motherboard/BIOS issue or could it be that both drives require the third party drivers? (F6 option in XP setup)
Anyway, I contacted Samsung and they directed me to a tool called “ES Tools” which they said I needed to boot from and it will reformat the drive and then XP will see it upon install. How can reformatting a drive change the way XP install sees it?
I would appreciate any suggestions here and thanks for taking the time to read!