I have a Dell 8400 and tried to do a XP clean slate reinstallation on it and the only way that I could reinstall XP was in the COMBO mode. The other 3 modes would tell me that they couldn't detect my hard drive.
Now I cann't boot from the hard drive, whether its first in sequence or not, and there is a magic D: drive with what appears to be the original settings that I wanted to replace.
The computer is set-up as follows:
BIOS A09
The initial splash screen says that the hard drives are there.
Boot Sequence:
1. Onboard or USB CD-Rom Drive
Onboard SATA Hard Drive
2. Onboard or USB Floppy Disk
3. Onboard IDE Hard Drive (Not Present)
Add-in Hard Drive (Not Present)
Drives:
Diskette Drive
Drive 0: SATA-0 enabled
Drive 1: SATA-1 enabled
Drive 2: SATA-2 enabled
Drive 3: SATA-3 enabled
Drive 4: PATA-0 enabled
Drive 5: PATA-1 Enabled
SATA Operation: Combination
As I previously stated, if I reset the SATA operation to RAID AUTODETECT/AHCI, RAID AUTODETECT/ATA, or RAID and try to reboot, I get a message that NTLDR is missing and try to reboot.
The partition section says the following:
131070 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on Bus 0 on ATAPI [MBR]
-
artition 1 [FAT] 55MB(47 Free)
cartition 2 [NTFS] 152523MB(152454 Free)
131070 MB Disk 0 at Id1 on Bus 0 on ATAPI [MBR]
-: Partition 1 [FAT] 55MB(47 Free)
d: Partition 2 [NTFS] 152531MB(142033 Free)
What I want to do is get rid of the d Drive and the information contained within as I'm afraid it might migrate to the c Drive (there is also some registry
and virus issues there), be able to boot from the hard drive and use the
RAID AUTODETECT/ATA configuration.
Anybody got some good sugestions?
A newbie going crazy in Portland
Now I cann't boot from the hard drive, whether its first in sequence or not, and there is a magic D: drive with what appears to be the original settings that I wanted to replace.
The computer is set-up as follows:
BIOS A09
The initial splash screen says that the hard drives are there.
Boot Sequence:
1. Onboard or USB CD-Rom Drive
Onboard SATA Hard Drive
2. Onboard or USB Floppy Disk
3. Onboard IDE Hard Drive (Not Present)
Add-in Hard Drive (Not Present)
Drives:
Diskette Drive
Drive 0: SATA-0 enabled
Drive 1: SATA-1 enabled
Drive 2: SATA-2 enabled
Drive 3: SATA-3 enabled
Drive 4: PATA-0 enabled
Drive 5: PATA-1 Enabled
SATA Operation: Combination
As I previously stated, if I reset the SATA operation to RAID AUTODETECT/AHCI, RAID AUTODETECT/ATA, or RAID and try to reboot, I get a message that NTLDR is missing and try to reboot.
The partition section says the following:
131070 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on Bus 0 on ATAPI [MBR]
-
artition 1 [FAT] 55MB(47 Free)c
artition 2 [NTFS] 152523MB(152454 Free)131070 MB Disk 0 at Id1 on Bus 0 on ATAPI [MBR]
-: Partition 1 [FAT] 55MB(47 Free)
d: Partition 2 [NTFS] 152531MB(142033 Free)
What I want to do is get rid of the d Drive and the information contained within as I'm afraid it might migrate to the c Drive (there is also some registry
and virus issues there), be able to boot from the hard drive and use the
RAID AUTODETECT/ATA configuration.
Anybody got some good sugestions?
A newbie going crazy in Portland
