You need a driver disk for your IDE ansd S-ATA controllers. On the
mainboard driver CD in the driver menu there should be a way to
create such a river disk. If the three drives run on an additional
controller not included inside the chipset you may even need a
second driver disk like I do for the Silicon Image Raid5 controoler
that's also on may Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe!
Usually XP shuld be able to see at least the two IDE drives but I
guess they are running in a raid configuration so you may also need
a driver.
If you boot from the XP-CD at the first blue screen a text shows up
in the bottom line saying you may press F6 to install additional
drivers. You need to press F6 as long as you see that text. If you
miss the few seconds restart and boot again.
At first nothing seems to be different but after a while XP will ask
for the driver disk and you can follow the instructions on the
screen to install one or more drivers.
I suggest to install all XP drivers included on the driver disk or
disks. That way every needed driver for your harddrives is included!
If you don't have a floppy drive you need to buy or borrow one to do
the installation because I know of no way around. XP just expects
the data on drive A: and that's definately a floppy.
One of the reasons I still include floppy drives in the system I put
together!!! ;)
After installing those drivers XP should be able to access all of
your drives so you're able to install XP!!!
--- In ASUSMB%40yahoogroups.com">ASUSMB
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>
> Hello
>
> I have some problems with my motherboard P5WD2
> I have the next system configuration: Intel D 2,66 MHz, MB Asus
P5WD2,
> DVDRW asus, cdrw teac, 3 hardisks one with 80G from maxtor and 2
with
> 40G from IBM ATA,
> So the problem is this one:
> I have win XP prof installed on my pc and I want to reinstall
windows
> again.
> But when I start to install the SO I get a blue screen with the
message
> that it I don't have any disk on my pc. The Cables are ok . What
can I
> do. If someone can help me I would be happy.
> On the MB I have one IDE fot the optical drives and 2 EIDE for the
HD.
> And another thing: when I enter in BIOS the HD's that are
connected on
> EIDE are not detected. I don't know why.
>
> Thanks In Advance
>
.
