Ok, I'll try to explain as much as I can.
I have a computer with a Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard with a AMD 64 processor.
I have two hard drives one is a WD740 and one is WD3000 they are both SATA drives (connected with the thin red wire, I think they are SATA)
I wanted to format both drives so I put in the windows XP installation CD (which came with the computer) it seemed to start running fine. But when it gets to the option of "installing a new copy press enter, to repair press R etc." I press enter and then I get the message "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" press F3 to quit.
I took out both drives and connected them to my other computer and formatted both drives, so now they are both clean.
I connected them to the other computer but it keeps telling me that there is NO DRIVE CONNECTED.
Right now I cant get the computer running, the installation fails because no drive detected, I made sure to check the cables are connected properly (not lose) and I doubt the drive went bad because they are practically brand new and until 2 days ago before I decided to reformat the drives they were both working fine.
I do not have a floppy drive in case it’s a BIOS problem, but if that is the problem I will purchase a Floppy drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
C. Weber
Miami, FL
I have a computer with a Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard with a AMD 64 processor.
I have two hard drives one is a WD740 and one is WD3000 they are both SATA drives (connected with the thin red wire, I think they are SATA)
I wanted to format both drives so I put in the windows XP installation CD (which came with the computer) it seemed to start running fine. But when it gets to the option of "installing a new copy press enter, to repair press R etc." I press enter and then I get the message "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" press F3 to quit.
I took out both drives and connected them to my other computer and formatted both drives, so now they are both clean.
I connected them to the other computer but it keeps telling me that there is NO DRIVE CONNECTED.
Right now I cant get the computer running, the installation fails because no drive detected, I made sure to check the cables are connected properly (not lose) and I doubt the drive went bad because they are practically brand new and until 2 days ago before I decided to reformat the drives they were both working fine.
I do not have a floppy drive in case it’s a BIOS problem, but if that is the problem I will purchase a Floppy drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
C. Weber
Miami, FL