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OK, nerds and geeks,got one for you
Big Sky Redneck
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Nuked hd using FDisk,noproblem, use the DIR command on all drives, everything is cool,BIOS sees all 4 harddrives and partitions BUT windows XP setup sees NO harddrives! Explain that.[V]
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Not being a wise guy (I hope). Wish I had a definitive answer, but I've had nothing but freaking headaches with this piece of OS.
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Basically I think it's Microsoft in General!!!
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Waiting for one of the whiz boys to offer to install a better os that my old system will handle.
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
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i sure miss win 95 plus....
I'm pretty sure I still have a copy if you really want to reminisce!
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get a copy of win 98 se it will see all your drives
win 98 is win 95 with 88 more lines of code.
works great!!!!!!!!!
Shadow62
I don't see a reason why XP wouldn't install now you have an operating system up and running. Send me an email as I have something that will guarantee a XP installation onto that hard drive.
Let me know what you got because this is the first time this machine has ever stumped me, redneck1314@adelphia.net
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
There is no compromising, I don't give a damn
Ozzy Osbourne - Lightning Strikes
so >fdisk
>format C:
set partititons NTFS
>x:\setup (x is cdrom drive)
also it is not good to install XP over ME you should save what you need and then format HD
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
There is no compromising, I don't give a damn
Ozzy Osbourne - Lightning Strikes
oh yeah, and win ME is the worst operating system known to man
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
There is no compromising, I don't give a damn
Ozzy Osbourne - Lightning Strikes
But I ran MaxBlast, it found all four drives, I reran F-Disk and it found all four drives, WinMe sees them just fine BUT XP thinks there are 0 hard drives installed. Right now it is not the partition format that is causing the problem, it is something else and I am clueless, I can't get far enough with it for it to tell me they are the wrong format[:(!]
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
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If you can provide me with the exact configuration of your drives I can help you in greater detail.
Shane
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Did you ever try setting it up using one hard drive only and booting from the CDROM Drive? I've had no problems using MaxBlast first then installing XP on it.
Primary IDE controller: Hard Disk 0 (C: drive)
Secondary IDE controller: CD
RAID Controller 0: 2 hard drives
RAID Controller 1: 1 hard drive
First make sure the jumper settings on all the RAID drives are set to Cable Select. Now, go into the RAID controller setup and create a striped set and that will take all three drives and create one large partition (I'm assuming this is what you want, its what I would want).
Now boot to the WinXP cd, it will see the hdd on the primary IDE controller. Make sure the hdd jumper is set to master prior to booting. When installing XP, choose to format the drive using NTFS (quick). If at any time it tells you that the disk is an upgrade and must find a qualifying product, just put any previous Windows CD in the drive and point to it. It will check then ask for the XP CD again.
By putting your C drive on the primary IDE you wont need the drivers for the RAID controller, once XP is fully installed it will see the card and the drives and you can format the partition within Windows (Computer Management).
If this doesnt help, or still having problems, let me know.
shane
It sounds like you are telling me that this setup that has worked for so long will not operate with XP, I will have to reconfigure all of it. If that is the case and I decide to run XP permanant I will just rebuild and go with a P4 since it goes well with XP, kiss my beloved ATHLON goodbye[V]
Also this version of XP PRO I have is not an upgrade but a clean install version however when loading it with an OS already installed it gives two options, one is an upgrade install the other is a new install that can delete the previous version or run as a dual boot and run now this goofy SOB is trying to run as a dual boot since I started the install but failed. When I first tried this, it was with a nice clean C:, wiped clean with F-Disk then the attempt to boot from the XP cd to change the partition and install XP failed so I then decided to go ahead and put WinMe back in, installed it clean with no problems as I have done many times. Made sure device manager had no !! and with no external devices hooked up (only the RAID, ehternet card, AGP video and sound card drivers installed) I then setout to break one of my biggest rules and do an overtop install, that failed and now this stupid thing tries to perform as a dual boot to finish the XP setup and it crashes causing me to hit the GFYS button[:(!]
But if you are infact telling me I have to reconfigure all of my drives and or dump one or two of them then XP will never get used in this, if XP is so much better why won't it work with the same setup that 98 and WinMe has worked on for over two years? I should simply have to change the format to NTFS and install XP, atleast that is what I thought[V][V][V][V][V]
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
There is no compromising, I don't give a damn
Ozzy Osbourne - Lightning Strikes
C: 80GB Partition
240GB Partition
But this setup wont work if you want to have many partitions (never really understood that).
To clean up your C: drive you will need to format it again and start the XP load from scratch. Someone else gave good advice here, just hook up one CD and your primary hard drive and install WinXP, then hook the rest of the stuff up.
Shane
First ,only hook up the master drive you need to install your os ,on ,and a master cd
Rom ,later hook them up ,and xp will install them ,here are a few things to consider
When you do a f-disc from a 98 or me disc ,it will put on your bios what os you are installing
98/me also are fat systems ,when you install xp over ,it will also be a fat system not ntfs
if you have Maxtor drives ,use the Maxtor install disc to get a clean format ,it will also prompt you to what system you are installing ,and format for it,and partition it correctly
a lot of times 98/me will recognize the drive ,but xp will not {bois deletes it},go into set/start up up {dos/bios},and reinstall the master drive only ,then boot from cd ,if you have a pro {legal}copy ,not a burned copy it should take off ,if not go back ,and check make sure it is recognizing the drive in set up once again ,bootleg copies will sometimes get stuck on f8 command ,if so your stuck with using it as an upgrade
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