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by srichter

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A lady friend recently received a "new" harddrive and asked me to come over and format and put an OS on it. I tried to install win/2000 but the installation doesn't acknowledge any harddrive. The BIOS see's it but I get nothing when trying to install an OS.Anyone have any ideas?

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by alfa11

If the drive is SATA you need to load the chipset drivers onto a diskette and when loading Windows installation press F6 to make Windows recognize the SATA controller.
Other thing you can do is check if the Motherboard SETUP has the Legacy SATA or Native option, so the HD is recognized as an IDE-like drive.

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