Guest Eric Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make SATA HDD appear after XP installation without SP2? Before re-installing XP, I have successfully set up SATA HDD by partitioning 250GB into two 120 GB HDD under XP with SP2. Once I format [C: drive] for XP and reinstall it, my SATA HDD is disappeared. Does anyone have any suggestion on how to make my SATA HDD appear? since many drivers are stored under SATA HDD. Thank for any suggestions Eric
Guest DL Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: How to display SATA HDD after XP installation? You have partitioned the single drive into 2, C + one other, Yes? Did you do this with a third party tool? What does Disk Management show? (Winxp requires sp1 or greater to see/utilise a drive larger than 137gb) If your winxp is pre sp1 you can create a slipstreamed win cd containing the latest sp then this cd will see the entire hd and you can if you wish use 2 partitions "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B629F50C-6B15-44B7-A385-9728BD11770C@microsoft.com... > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make SATA HDD appear after XP > installation without SP2? > Before re-installing XP, I have successfully set up SATA HDD by > partitioning > 250GB into two 120 GB HDD under XP with SP2. Once I format [C: drive] for > XP > and reinstall it, my SATA HDD is disappeared. Does anyone have any > suggestion > on how to make my SATA HDD appear? since many drivers are stored under > SATA > HDD. > Thank for any suggestions > Eric
Guest Eric Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: How to display SATA HDD after XP installation? No, OS is installed in Disk 1 [C: drive] independently. Disk 3 is partitioned into 120 GB [H: drive] and 120 GB [i: drive] Drive is stored in Disk 3 [H: drive] independently. XP does not include SP1, I use Disk Management for resizing partition. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you for any suggestions Eric "DL" wrote: > You have partitioned the single drive into 2, C + one other, Yes? > Did you do this with a third party tool? > What does Disk Management show? > (Winxp requires sp1 or greater to see/utilise a drive larger than 137gb) > > If your winxp is pre sp1 you can create a slipstreamed win cd containing the > latest sp then this cd will see the entire hd and you can if you wish use 2 > partitions > > "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:B629F50C-6B15-44B7-A385-9728BD11770C@microsoft.com... > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make SATA HDD appear after XP > > installation without SP2? > > Before re-installing XP, I have successfully set up SATA HDD by > > partitioning > > 250GB into two 120 GB HDD under XP with SP2. Once I format [C: drive] for > > XP > > and reinstall it, my SATA HDD is disappeared. Does anyone have any > > suggestion > > on how to make my SATA HDD appear? since many drivers are stored under > > SATA > > HDD. > > Thank for any suggestions > > Eric > > >
Guest Paul Knudsen Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: How to display SATA HDD after XP installation? On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:12:02 -0700, Eric <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make SATA HDD appear after XP >installation without SP2? >Before re-installing XP, I have successfully set up SATA HDD by partitioning >250GB into two 120 GB HDD under XP with SP2. Once I format [C: drive] for XP >and reinstall it, my SATA HDD is disappeared. Does anyone have any suggestion >on how to make my SATA HDD appear? since many drivers are stored under SATA >HDD. >Thank for any suggestions >Eric You should have loaded the SATA drivers from a floppy while doing the install. I don't know if you can do it now. You may either need to upgrade to SP2 or do the install again. What's your problem with SP2 anyway? -- Top 10 Conservative Idiots: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10
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