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Thread ID: 72295 2006-09-07 12:55:00 Hard Drive Help ndarby2389 (11108) Press F1
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483160 2006-09-07 12:55:00 OK

Heres my problem, my first hard drive was playing up you could hear it skipping so i decided to go out and buy a new one, so i brought a new Samsaug 160GB S-ATA hard drive i got back home turned off all the computer took out the old one and set the new one in, i then attacted the power lead to the new one and the cable leading to the Sata connectors to the new hard drive...

Because im using XP i automaticly put the disk in thinking it wold detect the new hard drive and do a fresh installation over it, it gets to the screen do u want to do a new installation....then it comes up as "NO FIXED DISK PRESENT"

So i try and do it from a windows 98 startup disk and try to format the disk, but for me to load windows 98 onto it i need to Fdisk it to FAT32 so i type fdisk and it also comes up no fixed disk present, power is going into the hard drive because u ccan feel it heating up.

and i thought it detected my hard drive because in dos i put C:chkdsk...

and it came up with "MS-RAMDRIVE and all the data" whats a MS-Ramdrive?

Im really confused and dont no what to do any help would be so greatful #

Thank You
ndarby2389 (11108)
483161 2006-09-07 13:08:00 You may need to make a sata driver disk, you would use this during the setup/install, by pressing F6 when prompted. Rob99 (151)
483162 2006-09-07 13:27:00 You may need to make a sata driver disk, you would use this during the setup/install, by pressing F6 when prompted.

And how do i go about doing that ?
ndarby2389 (11108)
483163 2006-09-07 13:33:00 You would get the sata driver then put it onto a floppy disk.

www.google.com
Rob99 (151)
483164 2006-09-07 13:41:00 ok but where do i get it from ... all i know is i have a MSI motherboard :S anyhellp ??sorry ndarby2389 (11108)
483165 2006-09-07 13:45:00 Have a look on your motherboard CD, or try here www.msi.com.tw Rob99 (151)
483166 2006-09-07 14:26:00 right ive had a look on my motherboard cd rom and theres a few different ones...like raid and ultra i dnt no which one i need lol i jst have a gut feeling it might be the motherboard but i dnt no why that would be.. ndarby2389 (11108)
483167 2006-09-07 17:37:00 how do i no theres a signal running from my SATA hard drive to my motherboard can anyone help me because i think it may be the signal ndarby2389 (11108)
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