NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP

[Andrew Bestfrenn]

I am installing a new hard drive onto a system
w/ asus A7V133 motherboard .
Trying to format it and install winxp.
I have made a boot disk that includes smartdrive.exe

When it is booting up
it says: detecting primary master (press F4 to skip)
detecting secondary master (press F4 to skip)

etc. and then lists all drives as not there
ie: primary master: none
etc.

It then is able to boot to the DOS prompt
but that is as far as I can go. Cannot get to the
D: prompt, because it has not detected drive D (cd ROM)
none of the commands work
A:>FORMAT does not work
FORMAT/ u does not work
FORMAT / s does not work
FDISK does not work
please help
how do I get it to detect my hard drive etc.
on bootup? I think it is a bios setting of
some kind.

 

[Rich Barry]

Andrew, if you can just set the cdrom as first boot device in Bios. Then
boot from CD.

 

[relic]

Andrew, if you can just set the cdrom as first boot device in
Bios. Then boot from CD.

And then do what? It _still_ won't have any hard disks.
<shakes head>

 

[relic]

I am installing a new hard drive onto a system
w/ asus A7V133 motherboard .
Trying to format it and install winxp.
I have made a boot disk that includes smartdrive.exe

When it is booting up
it says: detecting primary master (press F4 to skip)
detecting secondary master (press F4 to skip)

etc. and then lists all drives as not there
ie: primary master: none
etc.

It then is able to boot to the DOS prompt
but that is as far as I can go. Cannot get to the
D: prompt, because it has not detected drive D (cd ROM)
none of the commands work
A:>FORMAT does not work
FORMAT/ u does not work
FORMAT / s does not work
FDISK does not work
please help
how do I get it to detect my hard drive etc.
on bootup? I think it is a bios setting of
some kind.

What else did you do? /Just/ installing a new HDD won't cause your problem
unless you didn't get the IDE Cable back on correctly.

 

[Trollslayer@thecave]

Without thinking

I am installing a new hard drive onto a system
w/ asus A7V133 motherboard .
Trying to format it and install winxp.
I have made a boot disk that includes smartdrive.exe

When it is booting up
it says: detecting primary master (press F4 to skip)
detecting secondary master (press F4 to skip)

etc. and then lists all drives as not there
ie: primary master: none
etc.

It then is able to boot to the DOS prompt
but that is as far as I can go. Cannot get to the
D: prompt, because it has not detected drive D (cd ROM)
none of the commands work
A:>FORMAT does not work
FORMAT/ u does not work
FORMAT / s does not work
FDISK does not work
please help
how do I get it to detect my hard drive etc.
on bootup? I think it is a bios setting of
some kind.

Check that the jumpers are set correctly. Most of the time when a drive is
not recognized it's for that reason.

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

What else did you do? /Just/ installing a new HDD won't cause your problem
unless you didn't get the IDE Cable back on correctly.

unless he didn't get the jumper set correctly, and has 2 drives jumpered
the same.

 

[Bob Harris]

If this is a brand new hard drive, right out of the box, then it is neither
partitioned nor formated, so of course DOS won't see it. Look in the box
for a floppy (or a CD, maybe) with disk preparation and installation tools.
If none are found, download a set form the disk maker's website. These
tools will boot the PC directly into a friendly interface that will display
all attached hard drives, even if "raw", ask a few questions about what you
want to do, then it will do it for you. If there are any choices, pick
either FAT32 or NTFS, but not FAT16. If the disk is over 20 Gig or so,
think about making multiple partitions, just to make managing data easier.

Alternatively, run the XP recovery console directly from the XP CDROM. It
has all the tools you need to partition and format a disk, but it is not as
friendly as the software provided by either Seagate or Maxtor.

Finally, is this new drive on a RAID controller? Many motherboards now
support RAID. If so, you first have to build (i.e., define) at least one
RAID arrary. An array can be as simple as one disk, but that may not be the
default option, so read the choices carefully. That is done near the end of
the BIOS checks, when you see a message about a "controller". In my PC, on
an ASUS P4S8X motherboard, the message talks about a Promise FastTrack
contoller. It says to hit CTRL-F to use the FastBuild utility. Your
motherboard may be saying something similar. However, please read the
motherboard manual before randomly hitting keys.

Also, if SCSI, or RAID, or SATA then XP will not see the disks unless you
hit F6 at the right moment and provide the correct driver on a floppy. It
can not be on a CDROM. It must be on a floppy. Watch carefully, since the
mesage if flashed for only a few seconds.

 

[Tony Hwang]

Without thinking
Andrew Bestfrenn <[email protected]> spewed forth with the
following drivel:




Check that the jumpers are set correctly. Most of the time when a drive is
not recognized it's for that reason.

Hi,
What kinda hard drive?
Tony

 

[Richard Urban]

If the drive isn't detected, why do you think you can format that which
isn't there? Check your cables. Check your bios settings. Check everything
considered hardware.

--
Regards

Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

*****************************

 

[JohnR]

Bob Harris wrote:
|| then it is
|| neither partitioned nor formated, so of course DOS won't see it.

DOS can still see it. What else would fdisk and format be for?

 

[JohnR]

Andrew Bestfrenn wrote:
|| I am installing a new hard drive onto a system
|| w/ asus A7V133 motherboard .
|| Trying to format it and install winxp.
|| I have made a boot disk that includes smartdrive.exe
||
|| When it is booting up
|| it says: detecting primary master (press F4 to skip)
|| detecting secondary master (press F4 to skip)
||
|| etc. and then lists all drives as not there
|| ie: primary master: none
|| etc.
||
|| It then is able to boot to the DOS prompt
|| but that is as far as I can go. Cannot get to the
|| D: prompt, because it has not detected drive D (cd ROM)
|| none of the commands work
|| A:>FORMAT does not work
|| FORMAT/ u does not work
|| FORMAT / s does not work
|| FDISK does not work
|| please help
|| how do I get it to detect my hard drive etc.
|| on bootup? I think it is a bios setting of
|| some kind.

Get into the BIOS. Be sure it is set to autodetect rather than to use user
settings. If the option exists in your BIOS, have it detect the drives right
away.
If you don't know how to do this, post specs on your motherboard and/or
system brand and model.

 

[Richard Urban]

He said that the BIOS was showing no drives as detected. How do you think
that DOS will see what the computer itself doesn't?

--
Regards

Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

*****************************

 

[relic]

He said that the BIOS was showing no drives as detected. How do you
think that DOS will see what the computer itself doesn't?

Uh... /READ/ the last two posts so you can see how silly you look to us.

 

[Richard Urban]

Uhh!

Read the original post, and see how silly YOU kook!

Quote:

When it is booting up
it says: detecting primary master (press F4 to skip)
detecting secondary master (press F4 to skip)

etc. and then lists all drives as not there
ie: primary master: none

UnQuote

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[relic]

Uhh!

Read the original post, and see how silly YOU kook!

Nope, it didn't have anything to do with the OP but to two particular replies
that you replied to. linux user?


Since you don't seem able to read/follow threads: The two posts that made your
comment to JohnR look silly:

Bob Harris wrote:
"If this is a brand new hard drive, right out of the box, then it is neither
partitioned nor formated, so of course DOS won't see it."

JohnR replied:
"DOS can still see it. What else would fdisk and format be for?"

Then you replied to JohnR:
"He said that the BIOS was showing no drives as detected. How do you think
that DOS will see what the computer itself doesn't?"


Your comment was asinine in respect to the two-post exchange you replied it
to.


HTH & GF

 

[Diogenes]

I replied to the statement

"DOS can still see it. What else would fdisk and format be for?"

If the drive is not detected during the P.O.S.T, DOS certainly WILL
NOT be able to see it!

With that, GoodBy!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

 

[Richard Urban]

I replied to the statement

"DOS can still see it. What else would fdisk and format be for?"

If the drive is not detected during the P.O.S.T, DOS certainly WILL NOT be
able to see it!

With that, GoodBy!


--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[relic]

I replied to the statement

"DOS can still see it. What else would fdisk and format be for?"

If the drive is not detected during the P.O.S.T, DOS certainly WILL
NOT be able to see it!

With that, GoodBy!

Unbelievable. You are the stupidest person I've encountered on usenet.

 

[TehGhodTrole III]

I replied to the statement

"DOS can still see it. What else would fdisk and format be for?"

If the drive is not detected during the P.O.S.T, DOS certainly WILL
NOT be able to see it!

With that, GoodBy!

Are you /really/ that stupid?

 

[Trollslayer@thecave]

Without thinking

Hi,
What kinda hard drive?
Tony

Why are you responding to me nitwit.