Hi,
I have seen a thread about a problem i have and wish to ask you about it....
Here is the thread i am talking about:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...gle+AND+sata+AND+drive
I have an asus av8 deluxe motherboard and a 200gb western digital caviar sata 8mb cache 7200rpm hard drive.
When in the bios setup it does not show up under the boot sequence and also when attempting to install xp pro i am told there is no hard drive, however as the PC starts up the drive name is on screen for about a second so something somewhere knows it exists.
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The technician who came to my house didn't know what was going on.
What we did was copy 'makedisk.exe' from the av8 drivers cd under the sata378 or something folder.
Was this the right thing to do? We then used it and windows accepted the drive and the technician asked to partition it into 2, which worked, then it said "computer restarting" from there the technician turned off the pc and left.
Did he do the right thing? I don't have RAID, just a single sata drive? Help.
What are arrays do i need to set them in the bios before going ahead anymore with windows?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease help a stranger in trouble,
Maniac618
P.S. Thanks in advance if you can help more, the thread was confusing so i need help.
I have seen a thread about a problem i have and wish to ask you about it....
Here is the thread i am talking about:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...gle+AND+sata+AND+drive
I have an asus av8 deluxe motherboard and a 200gb western digital caviar sata 8mb cache 7200rpm hard drive.
When in the bios setup it does not show up under the boot sequence and also when attempting to install xp pro i am told there is no hard drive, however as the PC starts up the drive name is on screen for about a second so something somewhere knows it exists.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The technician who came to my house didn't know what was going on.
What we did was copy 'makedisk.exe' from the av8 drivers cd under the sata378 or something folder.
Was this the right thing to do? We then used it and windows accepted the drive and the technician asked to partition it into 2, which worked, then it said "computer restarting" from there the technician turned off the pc and left.
Did he do the right thing? I don't have RAID, just a single sata drive? Help.
What are arrays do i need to set them in the bios before going ahead anymore with windows?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease help a stranger in trouble,
Maniac618
P.S. Thanks in advance if you can help more, the thread was confusing so i need help.