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From: Gabriel Knight on 30 Jul 2010 13:08
Hi all, I have an Acer Aspire E500 desktop im trying to install a clean
install of the OS XP Media Center Edition 2005, the sata 250 gig can been
seen in dos and fidsk and the bios but not by the start of XP media center
edition 2005 the part where you select the drive to install the OS on to -
it says no drives are detectable at all I only have the one drive and at the
moment it had 3 partitions removed and then I made a single partition and
formated it as fat32, but still no drives detected by the OS. On the
motherboard I tried another sata bus (orange plug) to see but same problem,
I have the sata hdd in the sata (1) orange bus - there are (4) of them. How
can I get the OS the see the drive?

Thanks all
Gabriel


From: Conor on 30 Jul 2010 13:34
On 30/07/2010 18:08, Gabriel Knight wrote:
> Hi all, I have an Acer Aspire E500 desktop im trying to install a clean
> install of the OS XP Media Center Edition 2005, the sata 250 gig can been
> seen in dos and fidsk and the bios but not by the start of XP media center
> edition 2005 the part where you select the drive to install the OS on to -
> it says no drives are detectable at all I only have the one drive and at the
> moment it had 3 partitions removed and then I made a single partition and
> formated it as fat32, but still no drives detected by the OS. On the
> motherboard I tried another sata bus (orange plug) to see but same problem,
> I have the sata hdd in the sata (1) orange bus - there are (4) of them. How
> can I get the OS the see the drive?
>
You need to either set the BIOS to run the drive in legacy or IDE mode
or you're going to have to provide the drivers for the SATA controller
during the initial install period where it states to press f6 to install
raid drivers.

--
Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
From: Gabriel Knight on 30 Jul 2010 14:24
Whooa...I pressed F6 as I didnt have what was needed to continue with the
"S" option I just pressed enter but the drive was not detected I spose
because there was no sata controller installed at the point before I pressed
enter, Im going to google about what Conor said but I will need help to
install the correct software to get my hdd detected - so my next question is
what and how do I continue from here?

Thanks
Gabriel

> You need to either set the BIOS to run the drive in legacy or IDE mode or
> you're going to have to provide the drivers for the SATA controller during
> the initial install period where it states to press f6 to install raid
> drivers.
>
> --
> Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk


From: Gabriel Knight on 30 Jul 2010 14:30
I forgot to add that there is no option in the bios to run the sata drive in
legacy or IDE mode, that is why I need help to install the sata controller
to get the hdd detected.

Thanks again
Gabriel

"Gabriel Knight" <fake(a)nothing.com> wrote in message
news:vPE4o.2078$FH2.644(a)viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com...
> Whooa...I pressed F6 as I didnt have what was needed to continue with the
> "S" option I just pressed enter but the drive was not detected I spose
> because there was no sata controller installed at the point before I
> pressed enter, Im going to google about what Conor said but I will need
> help to install the correct software to get my hdd detected - so my next
> question is what and how do I continue from here?
>
> Thanks
> Gabriel
>
>> You need to either set the BIOS to run the drive in legacy or IDE mode or
>> you're going to have to provide the drivers for the SATA controller
>> during the initial install period where it states to press f6 to install
>> raid drivers.
>>
>> --
>> Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
>
>


From: Steve on 30 Jul 2010 16:48
In article <USE4o.2138$Yv.1362(a)viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>,
fake(a)nothing.com says...
>
> I forgot to add that there is no option in the bios to run the sata drive in
> legacy or IDE mode, that is why I need help to install the sata controller
> to get the hdd detected.
>
> Thanks again
> Gabriel
>

I guess your Google is broken.

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Other-DRIVERS-TOOLS/Others/Acer-
Aspire-E500-SATA-Driver.shtml



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