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Ron   10-23-2004 at 03:48:48 PM

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I'm in the middle of installing XP Home on a bare SATA drive, have
entered the controller card driver (pressed F6) and reach the
partitioning screen. At this point, Setup says "there is no disk in the
drive" and shows the drive as
"157066MB disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on si3112 (MBR)." It will let me
create a partition, then says "this disk does not contain a Windows
XP-compatible partition" and stalls progress at that point. A few days
ago I was using this drive for backup files in my system, then wiped it
clean for this install. I'm entering the same controller driver in
Setup as I used to install the drive originally. SCSI/ATA100 is enabled
in the BIOS and no other hard drives are connected. Why isn't the drive
recognized?

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bar   10-24-2004 at 12:51:04 AM
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If the disk was installed previously and not the system [or boot drive] it
uses a different configuration to be set as boot drive.

Check the Si3112 manual for drive settings in BIOS and also the correct
driver for this setting.

"Ron" wrote:

> I'm in the middle of installing XP Home on a bare SATA drive, have
> entered the controller card driver (pressed F6) and reach the
> partitioning screen. At this point, Setup says "there is no disk in the
> drive" and shows the drive as
> "157066MB disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on si3112 (MBR)." It will let me
> create a partition, then says "this disk does not contain a Windows
> XP-compatible partition" and stalls progress at that point. A few days
> ago I was using this drive for backup files in my system, then wiped it
> clean for this install. I'm entering the same controller driver in
> Setup as I used to install the drive originally. SCSI/ATA100 is enabled
> in the BIOS and no other hard drives are connected. Why isn't the drive
> recognized?
>

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