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by 3108

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windows xp installation does not recognize sata hard drive. after prssing f6 and loading drivers ,screen says windows cannot find any drives

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by 3108

have tried with plug and play os both enabled and disabled no difference .hard drive is not shown in bios as primary or secondary drive ,but does show on next page as maxtor drive .have also looked for achi setting in bios but cannot find it anywhere.
the system was working ok then suddenly would not boot

by tintoman

There is a setting in the CMOS which changes the priority of SATA and PATA drives, trouble is I cant remember if its in advanced cmos settings or integrated peripherals but when you find it I'm sure you can direct your system to look for a SATA drive to boot from.
Sorry to be so wooly

by 3108

thanks for all your help.the sata drive is enabled but still is not seen at windows installation. it all started when i downloaded from internet then windows would not boot, eventually managed to format but no luck with installation

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