Re: "System Cannot Recognize the CD"

On 3/16/2007 3:36 PM On a whim, R. McCarty pounded out on the keyboard

Cannot "See" the 2 SATA drives from the IDE drive ? Did you mean
that from within Windows the 2 SATA drives do not appear in either
DiskMgmt.Msc or Device Manager/Windows Explorer ? Are the
SATA drives partitioned and formatted or factory fresh ?

How is the BIOS configured for the SATA operation mode ( Native
or AHCI ? If you aren't using RAID it shouldn't be necessary to add
drivers. The BIOS handles SATA which to XP appears as a simple
IDE type Controller in Device Manager.

"Jeff Y." <schematherapy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1174083992.398910.105380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My problem has stumped a Microsoft Certified Technician who finally
gave up (although of course he stll charged me). Here it is:

I recently installed Windows XP in a configuration with a large IDE
drive as the boot device, and 2 SATA drives as storage drives (not
RAID). Windows cannot "see" the two SATA drives from the IDE drive.

At the advice of some other users in this group, I tried to use the
utlity CD-ROM that came with my motherboard (DFI LanParty) to install
drivers for the SATA controllers. When I try to run the motherboard
utlity program, I get a Windows error message: "The system cannot
recognize the CD. Please insert the correct CD into the CD-ROM drive."

I tried several things to identify the problem. First, I put the same
utlity CD-ROM into another computer and tried to access it from
within
Windows. I had no problem at all. The utility popped up immediately.
Second, I made a duplicate of the utility CD-ROM on a blank disc to
be
sure the CD-ROM itself wasn't damaged. Still got the same error
message. Third, I copied all the files from the utlity CD-ROM onto
another disc using a standard ISO format (in case the utlity CD-
ROM used a different format). Same error message. Finally, I
installed
a UDF Reader driver in Windows in case the CD-ROM was in UDF format.
Same error message.

I can't get a response from DFI tech support. What can I try next?




I also have a DFI board. I just had one of my 3 PATA drives fail. Today I added a SATA drive to replace the failed one. I am not using it in a RAID configuration but Windows asked for the driver disk after it started. I inserted the floppy and it loaded the drivers. So XP DOES require a SATA driver even if not using RAID. And the drive is recognized as a SCSI drive in DM.

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Terry

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