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Peryn · 03-24-2004, 03:23 PM

Ok, i am having a weird problem, and im curious if anyone knows some sort of solution to it.

I have had windows and everything running off a 120GB hard drive for quite a while. Upgraded the comp, and got a 160GB Seagate SATA drive to replace it. When im in windows, booting off the old drive, it recognizes it. I ran seagates software, then formated and partitioned the 160gb. Everything reads and runs fine. So i got to install windows...

I took off the power connection to teh old 120gb drive, this way when windows installs, it only sees the new drive, and doesn't try and do anything wierd to the old one. Shouldn't be a problem - just installing windows to a blank drive. Well when i turn it on, and the installer goes through and does its thing, it goes to the blue screen with "starting windows" . Cool. But when i say i want to install a fresh copy of windows, it goes to scan for hard drives adn previous versions of windows. Then it comes up saying that it didn't detect ANY hard drives atached to the computer. WTF?

So my question is this. Windows sees the drives, and the windows installer doesn't. Does the windows installer not support Serial ATA drives? Has anyone heard of problems similar to this, or have suggestions on how to fix it?

03-24-2004, 03:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
Peryn Junkie Location: San Diego, CA.	Windows Installer and SATA drives Ok, i am having a weird problem, and im curious if anyone knows some sort of solution to it. I have had windows and everything running off a 120GB hard drive for quite a while. Upgraded the comp, and got a 160GB Seagate SATA drive to replace it. When im in windows, booting off the old drive, it recognizes it. I ran seagates software, then formated and partitioned the 160gb. Everything reads and runs fine. So i got to install windows... I took off the power connection to teh old 120gb drive, this way when windows installs, it only sees the new drive, and doesn't try and do anything wierd to the old one. Shouldn't be a problem - just installing windows to a blank drive. Well when i turn it on, and the installer goes through and does its thing, it goes to the blue screen with "starting windows" . Cool. But when i say i want to install a fresh copy of windows, it goes to scan for hard drives adn previous versions of windows. Then it comes up saying that it didn't detect ANY hard drives atached to the computer. WTF? So my question is this. Windows sees the drives, and the windows installer doesn't. Does the windows installer not support Serial ATA drives? Has anyone heard of problems similar to this, or have suggestions on how to fix it? __________________ Dont cry kid, It's not your fault you suck.