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| 182455 | 2003-10-11 23:44:00 | I have a Asus A7n8x Deluxe motherboard running two S-ATA Seagate 120 Gb Hard drives in Raid 0. in Dual boot C: Win 98 Fat32 D: WinXP Home NTFS My problem is that when I went to start my PC in Win XP, I found that the isapnp.sys file is missing or corrupt. no problem, I'll just copy another copy to the system32 folder. Problem, I can't see my hard drives. If i start in Win 98 (which i can), because Win XP is NTFS I can't see the Win XP volumes. If I boot into Dos I can't find any volumes. I also can't re-intall winXP from the CD in Repair or fresh install as the setup can't find the hard drives. If I press F6 to install the SATA controller drivers, it asks for the drives from a floopy which I don't have. I have them on my motherboard CD. Which files do I need to copy from the CD to Floopy and will this fix the problem anyway? |
GrantNelson (4719) | ||
| 182456 | 2003-10-12 01:32:00 | Oh dear. ;-) (Or words to that effect ]:)) Can you not tell the installer to Browse for the files on the CD? Otherwise, just have a look at the motherboard CD with W98 to find the SATA files. It should be laid out in directories and reasonably 'intuitive" :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 182457 | 2003-10-12 02:18:00 | No Graham, the installer will only look for a floopy. I don't know which files to copy from the CD to the floopy, I have tried the one's I thought would work, with no luck. Grant |
GrantNelson (4719) | ||
| 182458 | 2003-10-12 03:46:00 | Ok, who made your sata drive controller? Is it part of the asus motherboard?? If it is, head over to the asus site (http://www.asus.com.tw) and see if there are any drivers you can download. Then its just the step of putting them on the floppy. Next time, you might like to convert your ntfs XP partition to Fat32, as you can see it would save you a lot of hassles :) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 182459 | 2003-10-12 04:42:00 | Hi Grant. I've got pretty much the same setup as you with 2 120 Gb SATA drives in RAID 0. I'm pretty sure that you can NTFS Dos boot disks - there are sites that have the images for floppy disks... You could also try a Windows recovery from the CD - only problem is that you lose any updates etc for Windows. N |
nicnz (2273) | ||
| 182460 | 2003-10-12 04:45:00 | Sorry, just read the bit about WinXp not seeing the disks. When WinXp install is starting up it asks for any SCSI drivers, I'm pretty sure that you need to a driver then for the RAID disks. You can download the driver for that from the ASUS site, or get if of the disks. I'm dreading the day if one of my disks fails - I'm not quite sure how I should begin backing up 200 GB of data... N |
nicnz (2273) | ||
| 182461 | 2003-10-12 20:10:00 | Thanks everyone, I have found the latest drivers for the sata controller, and put them onto a floppy. I am now able to get into the recovery console, so will attempt to copy the missing isapnp.sys file that caused all this, back in system32\ driver folder. Thanks again Grant |
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