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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" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Richard Urban wrote:
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. -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
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Richard Urban wrote:
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!!! -- Diogenes |
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Richard Urban wrote:
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? |
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Without thinking Tony Hwang spewed forth with the following drivel: 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 Why are you responding to me nitwit. -- Buster Gatekeeper: alt.os.windows-xp |
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Without thinking relic spewed forth with the following drivel: Richard Urban wrote: 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. WOW! That's quite a statement! Especially considering the nitwits in the public froups. -- Buster Gatekeeper: alt.os.windows-xp |
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"relic" wrote in message . ..
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. -------- thankyou for all who are trying to help: what initially caused the problem was that I tried to install winxp from a cd in drive D. I got a warning suggesting I use smartdrive.exe but tried to install without it. I got all sorts of messages saying 'file not copied exactly' etc. eventually the system froze and I had to reboot with WINXP partially installed , and voila: no drives could be detected. Now I have an even bigger problem. I was in the bios trying different settings. It is a Fujitsu MPC3102A hard drive I tried setting the bios to: user type: HDD Translation method: manual cylinders: 16383 head: 16 sector: 63 multisector transfers: maximum smart monitoring: enabled PIO mode: 4 Ultra DMA mode: 2 I saved the new settings and rebooted this time it booted up and said 'primary master fail' while listing primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave etc. as: none It seemed to be at least detecting the hard drive or trying to. From there I tried a program called Device Manager It said 'cannot detect hard disk' so I exited. I kept trying to get either Device Manager or the BIOS to detect the hard drive. NOW, I have somehow reset the bios so that I cannot get even get into the IDE settings. When I bootup from A drive, I press delete to enter setup, but now hen I enter setup, it no longer takes me straight to the boot menu, but to the main menu instead. From the bios setup main menu, I go to the boot menu, and IDE hard drive is listed as 'none' . When I try to change the IDE hard drive setting from 'none' (and get back to the IDE parameter settings) , I cannot get in. I get two thoroughly demoralizing options, either 'none' or 'disabled' Now what do I do? |
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Andrew Bestfrenn wrote:
"relic" wrote in message . .. 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. -------- thankyou for all who are trying to help: what initially caused the problem was that I tried to install winxp from a cd in drive D. I got a warning suggesting I use smartdrive.exe but tried to install without it. I got all sorts of messages saying 'file not copied exactly' etc. eventually the system froze and I had to reboot with WINXP partially installed , and voila: no drives could be detected. Now I have an even bigger problem. I was in the bios trying different settings. It is a Fujitsu MPC3102A hard drive I tried setting the bios to: user type: HDD Translation method: manual cylinders: 16383 head: 16 sector: 63 multisector transfers: maximum smart monitoring: enabled PIO mode: 4 Ultra DMA mode: 2 I saved the new settings and rebooted this time it booted up and said 'primary master fail' while listing primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave etc. as: none It seemed to be at least detecting the hard drive or trying to. From there I tried a program called Device Manager It said 'cannot detect hard disk' so I exited. I kept trying to get either Device Manager or the BIOS to detect the hard drive. NOW, I have somehow reset the bios so that I cannot get even get into the IDE settings. When I bootup from A drive, I press delete to enter setup, but now hen I enter setup, it no longer takes me straight to the boot menu, but to the main menu instead. From the bios setup main menu, I go to the boot menu, and IDE hard drive is listed as 'none' . When I try to change the IDE hard drive setting from 'none' (and get back to the IDE parameter settings) , I cannot get in. I get two thoroughly demoralizing options, either 'none' or 'disabled' Now what do I do? -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
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relic wrote:
Richard Urban wrote: 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. Richard Urban = Crusty Old *******. Look at some of Urban's previous posts and you'll see that he's a whole lot stupider than you think. http://tinyurl.com/24whp (Note that he is a microsoft.public poster too :-(*) ) |
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Andrew Bestfrenn wrote:
thankyou for all who are trying to help: what initially caused the problem was that I tried to install winxp from a cd in drive D. I got a warning suggesting I use smartdrive.exe but tried to install without it. I got all sorts of messages saying 'file not copied exactly' etc. eventually the system froze and I had to reboot with WINXP partially installed , and voila: no drives could be detected. Now I have an even bigger problem. I was in the bios trying different settings. It is a Fujitsu MPC3102A hard drive I tried setting the bios to: user type: HDD Translation method: manual cylinders: 16383 head: 16 sector: 63 multisector transfers: maximum smart monitoring: enabled PIO mode: 4 Ultra DMA mode: 2 I saved the new settings and rebooted this time it booted up and said 'primary master fail' while listing primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave etc. as: none It seemed to be at least detecting the hard drive or trying to. From there I tried a program called Device Manager It said 'cannot detect hard disk' so I exited. I kept trying to get either Device Manager or the BIOS to detect the hard drive. NOW, I have somehow reset the bios so that I cannot get even get into the IDE settings. When I bootup from A drive, I press delete to enter setup, but now hen I enter setup, it no longer takes me straight to the boot menu, but to the main menu instead. From the bios setup main menu, I go to the boot menu, and IDE hard drive is listed as 'none' . When I try to change the IDE hard drive setting from 'none' (and get back to the IDE parameter settings) , I cannot get in. I get two thoroughly demoralizing options, either 'none' or 'disabled' Now what do I do? You won't be able to select a boot device that isn't seen first. 1. If you set the IDE Devices to Auto, do they detect anything? 2. What make/model is your Motherboard? 3. Where did you get the XP CD? It sounds like a copy of a KaZaA download, not a Microsoft Windows XP CD. -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
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Trollslayer@thecave wrote:
Without thinking relic spewed forth with the following drivel: Richard Urban wrote: 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. WOW! That's quite a statement! Especially considering the nitwits in the public froups. Seems he *is* a microsoft.public froup poster. I'll have to change that from "the stupidest" to "one of the stupidest" I guess. -- - relic - They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. |
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Without thinking
relic spewed forth with the following drivel: Trollslayer@thecave wrote: Without thinking relic spewed forth with the following drivel: Richard Urban wrote: 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. WOW! That's quite a statement! Especially considering the nitwits in the public froups. Seems he *is* a microsoft.public froup poster. I'll have to change that from "the stupidest" to "one of the stupidest" I guess. It's like swimming in a sea of stupidity in there...seeing the stupidest is impossible. LMAO -- Buster Gatekeeper: alt.os.windows-xp |
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If the BIOS cannot see the drive, you're not going to get anywhere!!
Is there a BIOS limitation preventing you from seeing the drive? The A7V133 is an "older" mobo. You need to answer Relic's questions about your config. "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"relic" wrote in message . ..
Andrew Bestfrenn wrote: Now I have an even bigger problem. I was in the bios trying different settings. It is a Fujitsu MPC3102A hard drive I tried setting the bios to: user type: HDD Translation method: manual cylinders: 16383 head: 16 sector: 63 multisector transfers: maximum smart monitoring: enabled PIO mode: 4 Ultra DMA mode: 2 I saved the new settings and rebooted this time it booted up and said 'primary master fail' while listing primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave etc. as: none It seemed to be at least detecting the hard drive or trying to. From there I tried a program called Device Manager It said 'cannot detect hard disk' so I exited. I kept trying to get either Device Manager or the BIOS to detect the hard drive. NOW, I have somehow reset the bios so that I cannot get even get into the IDE settings. When I bootup from A drive, I press delete to enter setup, but now hen I enter setup, it no longer takes me straight to the boot menu, but to the main menu instead. From the bios setup main menu, I go to the boot menu, and IDE hard drive is listed as 'none' . When I try to change the IDE hard drive setting from 'none' (and get back to the IDE parameter settings) , I cannot get in. I get two thoroughly demoralizing options, either 'none' or 'disabled' Now what do I do? ---------- You won't be able to select a boot device that isn't seen first. 1. If you set the IDE Devices to Auto, do they detect anything? 2. What make/model is your Motherboard? 3. Where did you get the XP CD? It sounds like a copy of a KaZaA download, not a Microsoft Windows XP CD. -------- 1. no, it was initially set to autodetect for the IDE hard drive, and though it did not detect the IDE drive, at least it allowed me several options other than 'auto' when I clicked on it. (user type, etc.) Now that I have switched it from 'auto' to 'none' , when I click on 'none', to change it, it only gives me one other option: 'disabled', so therefore I can't switch it back to autodetect or even get in to manually set the parameters. 2. the motherboard is an asus a7V133 3. the xp cd is a download thankyou for your help and interest |
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