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Sweet
It works, the time i could have saved...
Thanks a million fellas

grtz
sax

ok i'll give that a shot

grtz
sax

Ok i found the manual at the site and apparently the drives are in ide3 and 4, above it says hpt372.
That explains why ide1 and 2 say none, but how do i let bios scan ide3 and 4?

grtz
sax

I didn't even think about the cables being in ide 1 and 2 or others and i'm actually not sure in wich they are and i don't want to take it apart again :) But they are in the slots next to floppy and the ccmos jumper.I can't remember where i put the manual but i'll probably find one on the site so i'...

No i can't change it to auto but if i select none and press enter i get the screen auto detection and on that screen ide primary is on auto. Also at startup where you have to press del to enter bios it also says none for both primary. I was thinking of formatting the C: partition and doing the setup...

Soupy i've updated the highpoint drivers according to the newer bios but no change.When i try to install the OEM driver during setup (F6) it gives an error but device manager does show the correct version.
Does it matter because the 2 drives are not setup in raid.

grtz
sax

The maxtor 40G is set as primary master on ide1, the smaller drive as slave Ide2 has a plextor on master with a cdrom as slave This never gave any problems Standard cmos says ide primary none, twice, only the cd drives are shown.Autodetection shows a screen for 2 seconds and that's it. 40GB: 08/22/2...

Hi all, i have a maxtor 40G and an older 4.3G disk, Xp pro is running on the maxtor but i want to do a clean install. During setup i get ther error "setup did not find any hard disks...", bios also doesn't seem to find any using autodetect but both drives work fine. Pc has amd xp 1800+ on abit kx7-3...