windows xp wont detect my harddrive

MrDurpMrDurp
edited December 2003 in Hardware
ok, so yesterday my friend helped me build a computer. We built it just fine, and bios detected all my hardware, but when we tried to install windows xp it took a really long time to boot up from the cd (like 5-10 Mins). After the windows setup started, we got an error message saying that windows could not detect my harddrive.

Any ideas?

Comments

  • rapturerapture
    edited November 2003
    Is it part of a RAID array? If it is you will need to find drivers to stick on a disk for setup you use.

    If not then I dont know.

    Bit more info on your system would be good though.
  • MrDurpMrDurp
    edited December 2003
    thanks anyway, but no, it isn't part of a RAID array. I'm not really sure what you want to know about my system, but I have an ASUS A7N8X mother board, with an Athlon 2800xp processor, and the harddrive is an 80gb western digital. I have my harddrive set as my primary master and my cd-rom as my secondary master. what else do you need to know?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2003
    are you sure that the bios is actually detecting the hard drive? Can you put in a bootable floppy and then fdisk and format the harddrive from it? Did the HDD come with a tools disk for it - not that you should need any tools for it but just to check to make sure it's hooked up and working fine.

    Are you sure you have the hdd as primary and the cd as secondary?
  • RBanfieldRBanfield
    edited December 2003
    If BIOS is detecting the hard drive, windows should also detect the hard drive. They've been around for a while, they're not that complicated. That is really strange!

    Maybe you can take it to a friends house and put NTFS on it??? If you can:

    Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management

    Choose Action -> Rescan disks

    Chances are your disk won't be online. Right click on "Disk 3" (the part that says Disk 3, not the visualization of the disk space to the right of it) or whatever number the disk is and choose to bring online. Then click on the visualization of the disk space to the right of it and build a new partition.

    Please keep us updated...
  • MrDurpMrDurp
    edited December 2003
    ok, well my friend is trying formatting and fdisking it from his computer, and hopefully i will put it in tonight and it will work. also i talked to one of the guys at the local computer store and he said to remove the jumper from the harddrive. so, if it doesnt work i'll try that.

    thanks
  • MrDurpMrDurp
    edited December 2003
    yo, I got the pc up and running. It was definitley the jumper, we tried it with the jumper in and had the same problem. took the jumper out and it started up just fine.

    Thanks for all the help guys.
    :)
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