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by navum

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I have 9 hard drives, all of them are 40gb, Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, nd Samsung.... All the other drives works fine but samsung drives (3) comes up with error during boot, it say's S.M.A.R.T command failed press f1 to continue. wen i tried installing xp it comes up setup cannot access the drive. it happens with all the three samsung drives. while other drives are working fine. I am working on Intel 865 MOBO, with SATA DVD/RW on it. I treid disabling smart from bios, it worked for disabling S.M.A.R.T error message of command failed but again xp setup wont access the drive. However all the drives are visible in bios. Can anyone help me fixing this problem

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by wannabeangei

I believe you need to disco all the drives first and then reconnect one at a time. That will most likely be the easiest way to install the OS. Subsequently attach all the Seagate drives as primary masters.

This will enable the BIOS to see them first and foremost. Its just a matter of rearranging a few jumpers...

Try this and let me know how it goes. Good luck!

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