see, what I am wondering is how your current OS got on the SATA drive. If the rest of what you say is true, then it was installed to the drive on a different machine. Soooo... is there another machine or another HD available in this story?
Dana On 5/12/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the solution may have something to do with swapping in another > hard drive with any OS on it. A thumb drive won't help because at that > point there is no OS yet on the SATA drive to recognize it -- as > there is no place to put it. You really needed more hard drive space > anyway, right? <g> Hope that helps. > > Dana > > On 5/12/05, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, so my new machine just came in. It's running XP Media Center > > edition. I know some folks have said this is close enough to XP Pro, > > but I really want to just use Pro (or am I crazy - if so, tell me). > > > > So I pop in the CD, and it tells me that XP Media Center is _newer_ > > than XP Pro. If I want to upgrade, I'll have to do it via a boot. I > > reboot, load up the CD - and it can't find my SATA drive. I have a CD > > of device drivers - but my machine has no floppy. > > > > What are my options? > > -- > > ======================================================================= > > Raymond Camden, Director of Development for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) > > > > Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) > > > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Blog : ray.camdenfamily.com > > Yahoo IM : cfjedimaster > > > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get Instant Hacker Protection, Virus Detection, Antispam & Personal Firewall. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=62 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157394 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
