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bxrdj
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 Posted: Mon, 5th Sep 2005 06:41 Post subject: |
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Try doing a factory format on the HD's. By the sounds of it, there's some 'hidden' stuff (XP home) installs still on the drive preventing this from being overwritten/ deleted with a normal format.
you could always try it on another HD or maybe a partition.
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Sep 2005 11:06 Post subject: |
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bxrdj
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Sep 2005 06:01 Post subject: |
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ok by looking at that site, it seems like i am doing everything right (i am definetly not new to formatting hehe) ...
basically my process is, setup bios to boot from disc, delete current partition, make new partition from all unused space, format to ntfs and start the installation. With pirated windows on this new machine only everything goes well up to that point where the files should extract to my hd to prepare for install. All versions I tried gave me the same "hd not found" error and stopped the installation.
If i am missing something could you please give me few more tips on how to go around this or if I am doing something wrong?
thanks again for all the help!
fuck ...
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Are your drives SATA ? If so you will need additional drivers to be loaded using F5 during the setup to use the HDD's.
As this is a new machine and looking @ dell's website I'm sure this is your issue. Go download the drivers, put them on a floppy and press F5 when it asks you to during the "blue" setup screen.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Sep 2005 09:13 Post subject: |
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Then you need to load your RAID drivers, you should have them on a software disk of some kind, or you should be able to download them from Dells website !
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| Posted: Wed, 7th Sep 2005 15:01 Post subject: |
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If they are raided both should be formated as they act as one disc. 2 discs becomes 1 disc and gives more speed.
That is the purpose of raid....
You might have SATA RAID to so maybe both SATA and RAID drivers will be needed?
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...anyway, everytime I reformat and get everything ready for install, the system basically gives me "cannot find any harddrives warning" and cancels install.. I tried about 3 different versions all tested and working on my other systems, and I cannot find any way around this. Can anyone please help me because I really want to upgrade to pro asap .
thanks again for the help 
