I started out with windows 2000, a long time ago. I
wanted to upgrade to windows XP, and when i tried to (new
installation) it said It couldn't find any hard drives
connected to the machine. I sent the CPU to a man named
bill at my office. I have no idea how he fixed it, but it
came back to me with win XP on it. So I know this is
possible. I recently wanted to reformat my computer. I
did so, and when i tried to reinstall XP the same error
from long ago came up. Cannot find Hard drives. I then
downloaded a copy of MaxBlast on this(my other) computer
and created new partitions, two FAT32 partitions and
formatted them, because i thought maybe the NTFS was the
problem(even though they were NTFS and bill seemed to have
done it with them being so) and it still doesn't work. I
have a completely clean machine one main partition of 15
Gig, and a second partition of 25 gig, both of FAT32. At
this point i have no idea what to do, and i can't call
Bill until monday. Please help me out!

Did Maxblast install a boot manager? Perhaps the issue is that your motherboard
doesn't support the hard drive size natively? What motherboard, hard drive,
controller are you running?

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"Zac Owen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:099601c38ba5$587a7170$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I started out with windows 2000, a long time ago. I
> wanted to upgrade to windows XP, and when i tried to (new
> installation) it said It couldn't find any hard drives
> connected to the machine. I sent the CPU to a man named
> bill at my office. I have no idea how he fixed it, but it
> came back to me with win XP on it. So I know this is
> possible. I recently wanted to reformat my computer. I
> did so, and when i tried to reinstall XP the same error
> from long ago came up. Cannot find Hard drives. I then
> downloaded a copy of MaxBlast on this(my other) computer
> and created new partitions, two FAT32 partitions and
> formatted them, because i thought maybe the NTFS was the
> problem(even though they were NTFS and bill seemed to have
> done it with them being so) and it still doesn't work. I
> have a completely clean machine one main partition of 15
> Gig, and a second partition of 25 gig, both of FAT32. At
> this point i have no idea what to do, and i can't call
> Bill until monday. Please help me out!

you might try the boot disks MS has available. Make sure
you download the right version. I have a post up near
yours...unable to install....but I'm lost too...
>-----Original Message-----
>I started out with windows 2000, a long time ago. I
>wanted to upgrade to windows XP, and when i tried to
(new
>installation) it said It couldn't find any hard drives
>connected to the machine. I sent the CPU to a man named
>bill at my office. I have no idea how he fixed it, but
it
>came back to me with win XP on it. So I know this is
>possible. I recently wanted to reformat my computer. I
>did so, and when i tried to reinstall XP the same error
>from long ago came up. Cannot find Hard drives. I then
>downloaded a copy of MaxBlast on this(my other) computer
>and created new partitions, two FAT32 partitions and
>formatted them, because i thought maybe the NTFS was the
>problem(even though they were NTFS and bill seemed to
have
>done it with them being so) and it still doesn't work.
I
>have a completely clean machine one main partition of 15
>Gig, and a second partition of 25 gig, both of FAT32.
At
>this point i have no idea what to do, and i can't call
>Bill until monday. Please help me out!
>.
>

it's a MAXTOR 6L040J2 hard drive
an ABIT BD-711 motherboard
and a HPT370/372 UDMA/ATA RAID CONTROLLER
(i don't know if that's what you wanted but thats the
first controller thing i saw on bootup)


>-----Original Message-----
>Did Maxblast install a boot manager? Perhaps the issue is
that your motherboard
>doesn't support the hard drive size natively? What
motherboard, hard drive,
>controller are you running?
>
>--
>
>Randy Byrne
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/mvp
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Do not email me, please use the newsgroup so that
everyone benefits.
>
>
>"Zac Owen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:099601c38ba5$587a7170$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I started out with windows 2000, a long time ago. I
>> wanted to upgrade to windows XP, and when i tried to
(new
>> installation) it said It couldn't find any hard drives
>> connected to the machine. I sent the CPU to a man named
>> bill at my office. I have no idea how he fixed it, but
it
>> came back to me with win XP on it. So I know this is
>> possible. I recently wanted to reformat my computer. I
>> did so, and when i tried to reinstall XP the same error
>> from long ago came up. Cannot find Hard drives. I then
>> downloaded a copy of MaxBlast on this(my other) computer
>> and created new partitions, two FAT32 partitions and
>> formatted them, because i thought maybe the NTFS was the
>> problem(even though they were NTFS and bill seemed to
have
>> done it with them being so) and it still doesn't work.
I
>> have a completely clean machine one main partition of 15
>> Gig, and a second partition of 25 gig, both of FAT32.
At
>> this point i have no idea what to do, and i can't call
>> Bill until monday. Please help me out!
>
>
>.
>

If this drive is connected to the raid controller, you must load the raid controller
driver when running the XP install. Hitting F6 while booting from the XP CD and
having a driver disk.

--

Randy Byrne
http://support.microsoft.com/support/mvp
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Do not email me, please use the newsgroup so that everyone benefits.


"Zac Owen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1a2501c38bab$049ef2a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> it's a MAXTOR 6L040J2 hard drive
> an ABIT BD-711 motherboard
> and a HPT370/372 UDMA/ATA RAID CONTROLLER
> (i don't know if that's what you wanted but thats the
> first controller thing i saw on bootup)
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Did Maxblast install a boot manager? Perhaps the issue is
> that your motherboard
> >doesn't support the hard drive size natively? What
> motherboard, hard drive,
> >controller are you running?
> >
> >--
> >
> >Randy Byrne
> >http://support.microsoft.com/support/mvp
> >Associate Expert
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >Do not email me, please use the newsgroup so that
> everyone benefits.
> >
> >
> >"Zac Owen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >news:099601c38ba5$587a7170$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I started out with windows 2000, a long time ago. I
> >> wanted to upgrade to windows XP, and when i tried to
> (new
> >> installation) it said It couldn't find any hard drives
> >> connected to the machine. I sent the CPU to a man named
> >> bill at my office. I have no idea how he fixed it, but
> it
> >> came back to me with win XP on it. So I know this is
> >> possible. I recently wanted to reformat my computer. I
> >> did so, and when i tried to reinstall XP the same error
> >> from long ago came up. Cannot find Hard drives. I then
> >> downloaded a copy of MaxBlast on this(my other) computer
> >> and created new partitions, two FAT32 partitions and
> >> formatted them, because i thought maybe the NTFS was the
> >> problem(even though they were NTFS and bill seemed to
> have
> >> done it with them being so) and it still doesn't work.
> I
> >> have a completely clean machine one main partition of 15
> >> Gig, and a second partition of 25 gig, both of FAT32.
> At
> >> this point i have no idea what to do, and i can't call
> >> Bill until monday. Please help me out!
> >
> >
> >.
> >