I was reinstalling windows on a brand new Dell Workstation this weekend. I put the Windows CD in the machine and hit f12 to boot from the CD. The installer went through all the motions and then warned me that it could not find a hard drive. After much hair pulling, I finally figured it out. With SATA drives, you need to go into BIOS and then to SATA Operations. Change it to Combination. Then, Windows will see the Hard drive when doing the reinstall.
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Perfect little tip about the bios. All to often we forget little things like that and pull our hair out and think it's all windows fault. Thanks again.
Posted by: todd jirecek | January 12, 2009 at 02:36 PM