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by ciaraspirit

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Hi All

I am having a very bad day, I have a 60GB SATA Hard drive. on the bios it can detect just fine but on windows it doesn't show. i even tried to use it as an external no luck. Even though on bios it can detect when i try to setup Windows it say no Hard Drive.

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by choppit

I can't speak for Vista (never used it) but take a look under;

Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management and check that an available drive letter is assigned.

by oh smeg

Which [b]Do Not[/b] Have Native Support for SATA Drives.

What you need to do is push the [b]F6[/b] as soon as the very first Blue Screen Appears in the Install Setup and install the SATA Drivers for your M'Board, NB. You need access to a Floppy drive as this is required to install the SATA Divers which need to be copied to the Root of the Floppy.

If you can not use a Floppy you can make your own slipstreamed Install CD by following the directions here

http://tinyurl.com/326fg3

Whilke I've never tried this it should solve your problem.

Col

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