Formatting - Have To Reinstall The Sata Drivers
Aug 3, 2005I have a seagate 160gb sata hdd partitioned to 40 and 120 gb. With Windows xp Home sp2 on the 40gb. If i format the 40gb hdd will i have to reinstall the sata drivers
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Re-formatting - SATA HDD
Jan 15, 2009Well, as the title suggests, i'm the latest in what is seemingly a long line of people having trouble attempting to perform the same task - reformatting a laptop running on Windows XP to run on a fresh, clean, smooth, lovely version of XP SP2.
I have read through every single topic with reference to what I am trying to do, and am still COMPLETELY lost. I have tried absolutely everything I can think of, my friend can think of, everything that has been suggested on various websites to no avail. I must just be doing things wrong.
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Jan 31, 2008a few days ago i had a problem performing a clean install of Windows XP which is on another thread Link below:
URL...I now have managed to install XP on my 60GB drive but when i try to format my 400gb SATA drive i cannot. BIOS Sees my SATA drive and windows XP sees the drive as Unallocated. I tried formatting it in windows and Partition Magic 8 and both times windows seems to crash and hangs and there is nothing i can do but reboot to get back into windows.
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