"Lez Pawl" <Lez@Pawlbtinternet.com> wrote in message
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> "Donovan" <donleo(nospam)7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> hello people!
>> Hopefully i can explain this correctly..i have a asus a8v and a maxtor
>> 300 gig drive i know the drive is fine. but my problem is getting it to
>> recognize. my steps are quite easy but same problem everytime.
>> i turn on and computer get many things happening like no device on fast
>> track contoller ...no bios installed and at some point it goes into
>> windows xp ..ive installed drivers on toher sata boards no problems but
>> this one doesn seem to go. i press the f6 and load the drivers when its
>> done loading windows says starting but then stops and says no hard disk
>> found. how can it not be there?
>>
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> I have just gone through a similar set-up and had to have the drivers on a
> 3.5" floppy before hitting F6. Let the comp go through start up without
> the floppy in the drive, when you see the Question Hit F6 on the bottom of
> the screen, load the floppy, then hit it.
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then hit it............F6 that is.