----- 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.