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replace MOBO (same model) no hard drive detected

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by uout

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I ve read on the net and it's all lookong for complicated issues!!

Here the situation is quite easy!

New MOBO (same model) then my hard drive can't be detected by the bios or the instal/repair of my WINXP　 cd??????

i have 3 partition

C: ntfs (old winxp on it)
D: fat (mac osx On it and working still after the mobo swap)
F: fat32 (good and working accesible from the mac OSX)

now my problem is if it's working for everything else why is my xp cd or OS or bios is telling me that there is no HD

and how can i fix this...the cd refuse to install???

thanks

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by jeremytech76

You've probably checked this, but what about your jumper settings? Drive placement on the cable? Slave/master?

by oh smeg

But you have a SATA HDD which isn't supported by XP Natively. You need to push the [b]F6[/b] key at the first blue screen in the XP Setup to load the SATA Drivers.

You'll need access to a Floppy Drive and copy the SATA Drivers to the Root of a Floppy to load the SATA Drivers for XP.

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by willcomp

If you have an SATA hard disk, check BIOS settings for SATA controller and verify that RAID mode is not selected. Should be IDE mode for non-RAID drives.

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