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2 raptors undetected

Dec 27, 2006 11:50PM PST

Hi, i don't know much about computing, so sorry for seeming stupid in advance.

I recently bought a 2nd hand computer with really nice specs, including Vista Ulimate and dual 74gig raptors in raid0 (I think). It was working fine except the occasional freezing/problems during hard gaming sessions which i put down to incompatibility with Vista. Yesterday I decided to install xp pro. I am not sure what happened (I didn't open the case or change any sort or configuration) but I didn't get far into installing xp pro before the system told me it couldn't detect either of my hard drives. I thought it might be a RAID problem (don't ask me why) so I went into the raid set up during booting and deleted the raid0 array. I have tried also booting with the Vista disk as well as xp pro but each time my raptors aren't detected and therefore the OS can't be installed/fixed. I have been to the Western Digital website and downloaded/created their drivers/utilities but I suspect they aren't vista compatible. The apparently bootable discs weren't recogised (the iso images/driver weren't detected by both the vista setup and xp pro setups. I don't know what else to do. I have contacted the seller as he made it all work previously but he hasn't replied yet.
Can anyone help? And thanks in advance if you can.

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Sounds proper.
Dec 28, 2006 12:00AM PST

XP knows nothing about SATA drives. I see no comments about how you installed XP so I take it you didn't install SATA drivers or motherboard drivers.

Widely documented on the web too...

Bob

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On the ball.
Dec 29, 2006 6:30PM PST

Yup, you are right. I have sorted it all out now. The previous owner of the computer helped me out pointing out where the MB drivers were kept - on the MB cd he originally gave me (funny that) and how to access them, creating a floppy i then used. So all is well now. First time i had to install a raid config though, so I'm learning. Thanks for the reply.

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Thanks for the report back. You are not alone.
Dec 29, 2006 10:39PM PST

In the busy forums here you see posts and replies constantly about this issue. We wish that this old OS would not have you working so hard.

Bob