boxfan Posted July 10, 2006 CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 Hi, I have a computer that I need to format. It has a seagate 120 gb harddrive in it. I was told i need to press F6 during windows setup and load a third party driver. The problem is I dont have the SATA harddrive driver. can any one help me find this driver? I tried doing it like I would a regular harddrive and windows says there is no mass storage device. here is the harddrive i have http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,580,00.html Model Number:ST3120026A Capacity:120 GB Speed:7200 rpm Seek time:11.5 ms avg Interface:Ultra ATA/100 Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 10, 2006 CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 its not a hard drive driver its a driver for your motherboard, what is your motherboards make a model? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted July 10, 2006 CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 What motherboard do you have? what Sata drive do you have? If you are trying to do a normal drive you dont need the raid driver.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 10, 2006 CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 wait thats a ata100 drive, you dont need a driver for that, don't push F6, just continue, windows should find the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxfan Posted July 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 wait thats a ata100 drive, you dont need a driver for that, don't push F6, just continue, windows should find the drive. Every time I try to do it. it says windows can not find a mass storage device and cant not continue. I have a Dell Deminsion XPS GEN 2 I hope I can figure this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 10, 2006 CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 Every time I try to do it. it says windows can not find a mass storage device and cant not continue. I have a Dell Deminsion XPS GEN 2 I hope I can figure this out. did the drive come with the dell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxfan Posted July 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 did the drive come with the dell? Yes it did. I dont have any disk any more. I wanted to format and I cant because of this problem. I have my service tag for the dell website and thats it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 10, 2006 CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 Yes it did. I dont have any disk any more. I wanted to format and I cant because of this problem. I have my service tag for the dell website and thats it. well if you have your service tag you can go to dell and get drivers if there are any. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxfan Posted July 10, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 well if you have your service tag you can go to dell and get drivers if there are any. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx They have a bunch of drivers... but what one am I looking for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 10, 2006 CID Share Posted July 10, 2006 They have a bunch of drivers... but what one am I looking for? this is what you want right here, these are the drivers for it. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R76270&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_XPS_G2&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7548&devlib=0&typecnt=2&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=99757 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxfan Posted July 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 this is what you want right here, these are the drivers for it. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R76270&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_XPS_G2&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7548&devlib=0&typecnt=2&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=99757 Thanks i'll give that a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxfan Posted July 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 Ok I got windows Xp in... Now my video card is freaking out. I downloaded the correct drivers. When I start up my Dell symbol is glitchy and games are glitchy never had the problem before. Any test I can run to figure out why its doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 if it does it with the dell logo when you first start your computer thats not a problem with drivers in windows. make sure the monitor is connected correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxfan Posted July 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 It shows like little black dotted lines through the blue dell sign. then when it shows windows xp it shows them 2 but once I get into the the desktop they go away. Then when I try to play a game I get this ERROR Program: C:Program FilesWorld of WarcraftWoW.exe File: C:buildbuildWoWENGINESourcegxCGxDeviceD3dCGxD3dDevice.cpp Line: 1521 Check AGP aperature. Then some times it will load and the graphics will be all glitchy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-vall Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 try update the driver Correct me if i`m mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 That would be my next guess. Like j-vall said, did you try updating your video card drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxfan Posted July 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 Yes I tried my video card is 256 mb DDR ATI RADEON 9800XT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 11, 2006 CID Share Posted July 11, 2006 Yes I tried my video card is 256 mb DDR ATI RADEON 9800XT are you using the drivers on the dell website or drivers from ATI's site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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