If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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. |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
Andrew, if you can just set the cdrom as first boot device in Bios. Then
boot from CD. "Andrew Bestfrenn" wrote in message om... 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. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
Rich Barry wrote:
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 - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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. 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. -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
Without thinking Andrew Bestfrenn spewed forth with the following drivel: 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. -- Buster Gatekeeper: alt.os.windows-xp |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
relic wrote:
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. 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. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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. "Andrew Bestfrenn" wrote in message om... 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. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
Trollslayer@thecave wrote: Without thinking Andrew Bestfrenn spewed forth with the following drivel: 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. Hi, What kinda hard drive? Tony |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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 :-) ***************************** "Andrew Bestfrenn" wrote in message om... 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. |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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? |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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. |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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 :-) ***************************** "JohnR" wrote in message ... 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? |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
Richard Urban wrote:
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. -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
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" wrote in message ... Richard Urban wrote: 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. -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
NO DRIVES DETECTED, installing WINXP
Richard Urban wrote:
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 -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|