OK -- RAID. I have a Dell with SATA drive controllers. In the motherboard BIOS setup the controller operation (collectively) can be set to "RAID = ON" or "RAID/ATA autodetect". In order to install WinXP on a single drive using a generic version of WinXP, one must put that setting to "RAID/ATA autodetect".
With "RAID = ON", and a system installed, it will boot/work ok. Also with "RAID = ON", the Dell-supplied installer will install. (but the Dell-provided installer is XP-Home and I wanted XP-Pro) The factory default is "RAID = ON", and the "help" in the BIOS setup discourages one from changing it without good reason. Finding out this good reason was non-trivial. Perhaps some similar setting is the problem with your Adaptec controller? Fred Holmes At 12:17 PM 2/6/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I went to Google and, started doing a search with the keywords, 'Windows wont >install'. While I was perusing the results, I came upon one, that talked >about cleaning the disc so, I took out my CD disc cleaner and, tried that. > >Then I booted the computer with the disc and, F6 for the external drivers >since it was no longer recognizing my AHA-39320 with extra help. I put in a >floppy disk I had created by downloading the drivers. Well, It recognized the >AHA-39320 but, it didn't recognize the drives connected to the AHA-39320. > >When I go through the SCSI utility software, it has no problem seeing the >drives. I could even 'start' to setup a RAID if I wanted to, using RAID-0 or, >RAID-1. > >Any ideas? > >Christopher ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
