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Generic USB Human Interface Drivers
Andrew Wilson wrote:
"dadiOH" wrote in message ... Andrew Wilson wrote: dadiOH Many thanks for your suggestions. I have tried everything you suggested with no luck. The system is messed up big time. I have bitten the bullet and split the two RAID hard drives which obviously wipes the disks. I have set the system to boot from CD and have put a Win XP installation disk in. The disk runs OK and installs the drivers but when it comes to the point where it asks which hard drive you want to install to three hard drives (the two previous RAID drives plus my hard drive) are showing but are unrecognised and if I try to continue by pressing ENTER I get a blue screen. Could it be that: 1) Win XP needs drivers for SATA hard disks before installation and if so how do I achieve this? Yes, could be, did you ever install such? Normally, they would be on the disk that came with the mother board but you should also be able to find them at the mobo manufacturer's site or that of the system manufacturer (Dell, HP, etc.). Read some of these... http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&o...=874&bih=54 4 Especially these... http://en.kioskea.net/faq/2544-insta...ata-hard-drive http://news.softpedia.com/news/Insta...F6-47807.shtml 2) The hard disks need formatting but how do I do this with no operating system in place? You do it from the XP install CD. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348 I *STRONGLY* suggest that you disconnect the two other drives before formatting or installing; that way, only the pertinent drive is available. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net dadiOH Sorry to bother you again. I have read all the information that you kindly provided. I have isolated all the hard drives except one but am having terrible trouble finding Win XP SATA (not RAID) drivers for the machine. The computer in question is an Advent T9208 which I have established has an MS 7187 motherboard. The Advent site doesn't list this model and the MSI site keeps telling me that the MS 7187 doesn't exist or gives no results. There are other places but these are offering Win XP SATA RAID drivers which I don't want. Do you know of a website that will just give me Win XP SATA (not RAID) drivers that I can put on a floppy and install when Windows starts loading drivers. According to this site... http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/t9208.htm your computer has a recovery partition (hidden, most likely). All the drivers would be in that partition. Have you tried the HDD Recovery System as detailed on that page? It seems that your MB was made for Medion computers (as well? primarily?). They have SATA drivers, no idea if they are apropos for you. http://www.medion.com/gb/service/sta...10013312&gid=2 -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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