Replacing Hard Drive with Seagate ST32500641AS

Question

I have a Deminsion 9150 and the SATA Hard Drive ST3160828AS crashed.  I am trying to install a Seagate ST3500641AS as the replacement.  I left the jumper in place to cause it to run 1.5 instead of 3.0.  When I check the BIOS setup, it shows I have a ST3500320AS on SATA-0.  I am trying to reinstall Windows XP.  On the installation it tells me I need to hit F6.  When I do and then hit the 'S', it wants a floppy disk with the driver on it.  First, I have no floppy on this machine and second, Seagate shows the driver needs to come from the manuacturer of the motherboard.  I have entered my Service Tag to get the list of what is on the 9150 and there is nothing on the motherboard.  The only thing I see on the motherboard is cRUus.   If I install without hitting the F6 and let it continue, when it comes time to BOOT the machine, it shows NO BOOT DEVICE AVAILABLE.  If I use a bootable CD and once it has booted, remove it, Windows XP will come up and run fine.  Only problem is, there  are several deivces that are not identifiable and therefore do not have their drivers associated with them.   Any suggestions as to what to try next would be greatly appreciate.  I have tried everything I know to do.

shesagordie · Answer

repaul

Try this:

Enter the system setup, scroll down to drives, press Enter or + to expand the drive menu then down to "SATA Operation", press Enter.

Change the SATA operation mode to "RAID Auto/ATA" press ESC to save and exit the BIOS.

Then XP should install without a problem.

Bev.

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repaul · Answer

Bev.

I made the change to the BIOS as you suggested. Reintalled Windows XP and at the end when it reboots, NO BOOT DEVICE AVAILABLE. One thing, I did Partition off 1192MB and installed XP there. Could that be the problem?

Any other ideas?

repaul · Answer

Somewhere in my trying everything I could thing of, the SATA drive was dropped out of the boot sequence.  When I added back in, it booted fine.   SORRY!

repaul · Answer

Bev.   Also, it is still showing in the BIOS as a ST3500320AS instead of ST3500641AS.   Roy

shesagordie · Answer

@repaul wrote:

Somewhere in my trying everything I could thing of, the SATA drive was dropped out of the boot sequence. When I added back in, it booted fine.

SORRY!

Roy.

Please to hear that you have resolved the problem.

Bev.

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