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by mysteriousboi108

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So I have just bought a new hard drive. WD 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache. When I go through the bios (startup), it recognizes my hard drive...slowly, but it does...then i insert my XP Installation Disk, go through everything, and when it comes to the point to partition the hard drive, it says, "Unknown Disk. There is no disk in this drive." So even though my motherboard reads it, XP Installation doesnt. Is there anyway for it to read it? Please help! Any help is appreciated!

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by oh smeg

To load Windows onto this you need the SATA Drivers that come with the M'Board and you need to press the [b]F6[/b] key at the very first Blue Screen of the Windows Setup.

After you press the F6 key nothing will appear to happen but the Windows Installer will look at all the attached hardware and when it can not find an attached HDD it will ask you for the SCSI, SATA, RAID Drivers to be inserted to the Root of the A Drive so you need to copy these drivers that you need which should be the 32 Bit drivers to a Floppy without any folders.

Once you have allowed the system to read the SATA Drivers it will proceed with the install.

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by sgt_shultz

WD says intermittent detection of EIDE drives can be caused by inproper jumpering of the drive and/or the other devices on its ide channel. can you put it as the sole drive (not master) on one ide channel (temporarily removing other devices from that channel) to see if problem goes away. also maybe try new cable. if no joy, see WDC website for diagnostics and other tshooting steps based on your drives model number, your BIOS version, your os and patch level etc

by mysteriousboi108

So after trying everything possible, i finally found a solution! It was the jumper that wasnt set properly on the hard drive....so i took the darn thing out completely, and XP finally recognized it, and now it works smoothly...thanks for the help though!

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