im helpin someone with a new computer and when we boot from the windows cd every thing goes good but then it says that the computer has no hard drive. i know its put in there right and it reads on the start up screen....but the windows thing wont recognize it.
here's a thing to ponder ! Did you format the drive ?? -- Your post is not very explicit !! You saying the drive shows. It will show on bootup as a hardware item on your bios screen -- BUT -- The O/S will not detect it if you did not activate and format the drive. ALL new drives have to be first of all ACTIVATED using FDISK on your Boot Disk -- Then with format.exe you do the formatting. Quote from Microsoft ReadMe ""FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.EXE FDISK and FORMAT are utilities necessary for installing a new hard disk in your computer or for starting over fresh with a clean disk. FDISK is used first to create a partition and then FORMAT is used to make the partition available for use."" This is explicit enough. Creating a partition == is making either a portion ...or ALL of the disk activated for formatting -- you can choose .. all or a part of it. Formatting == is placing on that activated portion the necessary instructions needed to accept data on the disk. BOTH of these steps are required before you can use a NEW HARD Disk. _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Do It Right , and you will be a Happy Camper ! Take Care.[/small]
