i'm trying to reformat my desktop computer and i have 2 SATA drives installed on it; both seagate barracudas. when i restart and go into the reinstall utility it says there are no HDD's installed. i rebooted and did the F6 for third party raid drivers and put the diskette in and it did it's thing. but then it still said no HDD's were detected.

i'm NOT interested in doing a RAID setup because i have a second drive for movie files and game files and it's already full and i do not want to lose any of that info. how do i fix this? i went through the manual and googled but still no luck.

btw, Mobo is Asus K8V-SE Deluxe

[Edited on May 6, 2006 at 4:51 PM. Reason : .]

5/6/2006 4:49:44 PM

If you're not going to set up a RAID, I would format one drive at a time. i.e. one have one hdd physically attached to your computer until everything is up and running. Then attach and format the second drive. I find that this solves a lot of issues.

5/6/2006 5:03:36 PM

neither drive is showing up in the XP Setup utility. it says "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer"

5/6/2006 5:06:05 PM

^ Then it sounds like you're having a problem with your HDD controller. Are you sure you're following the driver diskette procedure correctly?

5/6/2006 5:15:27 PM

alright i got it up and running finally. i had to switch spots on the mobo for my sata wire. i have 2 places and it was in the other 1 so once i switched it and reran with the setup diskette it worked.

now my question is, how i do install my other sata drive so my computer recognizes it? i cant lose the data on the drive. i've tried just plugging it into any of the sata ports and wasnt seen within windows. i'm afraid i have to use a utility provided by seagate to format it and i cant do that.

5/6/2006 8:08:46 PM