Re: windows xp setup not detecting hard drives
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:24:02 -0600
Cian wrote:
In Dec. 2005 I built myself a brand new PC from scratch...got a
brand new motherboard which just came out that year, got my 700W
powersupply, super duper graphics card and a HUGE sharp looking
case to put it all in. But, I wasnt going to buy new Harddrives or
DVD/CD ROM drives because I previously bought a Dell Insperion XBS
back in 2000 and still had everything from this computer. My
windows XP disk was the same one that came with my Dell in 2000.
Everything installed on my new computer and life was great.
Sometime earlier this year I managed to get a virus/trojan horse
which totally screwed up my hard drive (40GB Western Digital IDE
HD-from my 2000 Dell). So my desktop has been down for a bunch of
months (thank god for my apple laptop) and now i'm trying to put
the pieces back together on my MONSTER desktop.
Now that I'm trying to reinstall windows XP, I'm getting the
message that "windows setup can not detect any hard drives" when I
get to a certain point during installation. Why would i have this
problem suddenly now using the same disk to install windows that I
used when I first built my pc in Dec 2005? I realize this disk is
quite old, pre-service pack 1 even - but I didnt have this problem
in 2005. I searched google and found some others with similar
problems, but didnt quite understand their solutions (most of the
problems dealt with SATA HD's while mine are EIDE). I also read
this microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314859
which relates to the problem. Why would I need to install extra
drivers (which arent on the xp disk) now when I didnt have to
previously? Could the virus/trojan screwed something up I dont
know about? I've checked my Bios, the Hard drives are being
detected correctly (i also tried to install on a 20GB Western
Digital EIDE HD and getting the same problem - this HD hasnt had
any virus problems) and I've checked the boot order and that seems
fine as well.
Barring the virus screwing up something I dont know about, could
these two hard drives be totally fried? I have 3 other Western
Digital EIDE HD's (sizes 160GB, 250Gb &250GB) but these are for
data storage only and have never been used for an OS (and frankly I
cant afford to lose the data in an attempt to see if the problem
would be gone using one of these drives).
Also, I dont have any floppies that came with these hard drives - I
never ever needed them for anything in the 20 years now that i've
been using PC's (and installing my own hard drives), plus the only
pc with a floppy drive is the one I cant get windows on.
In the event that this is not a problem with some other part of the
pc which I'm not familiar with, should I buy a new Hard drive from
the store and see if it works then, or buy an updated windows xp
set from a store keeping my older hard drives?
The solution if fairly straight-forward...
You must locate and download the driver for the hard disk drive controller.
With that you can perform an install (repair or clean) using the "F6" part
of the Windows XP setup to install the proper driver so that Windows XP
setup can see and utilize your hard disk drive.
Usually - a USB floppy diskette driver will work fine for this - given your
motherboard fully supports it.
Or you can Google for and integrate the controller drivers into your Windows
XP installation media and use the new installation media to perform whatever
operation you need to.
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Shenan Stanley
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