Hard Drive not found

Asking this on behalf of friend who's putting together dual processor machine:
ASUS A7M266-d
2 Athlon MP 1900 - 1.6 ghz
100 gb WD hard drive
Plextor CD writer 40x
Award Bios


Sorry if the info is lacking. Friend lives aways from my place and called describing his problem. He has booted the machine from cdrom and trying to load XP but installation stops and says that it could not find the harddrive. BIOS setup to AUTO for Primary IDE master, so the BIOS knows about the drive. Anyone have ideas what he should be looking for?

thanks....d ;)

[quote]Originally posted by naka-pako:
<strong>Asking this on behalf of friend who's putting together dual processor machine:
ASUS 87M 266-d
2 Athlon MP 1900 - 1.6 ghz
WD hard drive
Plextor CD writer 40x
Award Bios


Sorry if the info is lacking. Friend lives aways from my place and called describing his problem. He has booted the machine from cdrom and trying to load XP but installation stops and says that it could not find the harddrive. BIOS setup to AUTO for Primary IDE master, so the BIOS knows about the drive. Anyone have ideas what he should be looking for?

thanks....d ;) </strong><hr></blockquote>

Check the jumpers on the drive.

make sure there is power going into the HDD

if he has another system have him try the HDD in it make sure its ok.

Just a check: is he running the latest BIOS?

I haven't used that board but it sounds like the XP install isn't loading a driver for the HD controller--You know, where it says press F6 if you need to install a third-party driver?

Thanks, we've tried all of this and still no go. We'll just have to keep hacking at it....d ;)

If the HD is the only device on the primary IDE then I would suggest completly removing the jumper on the HD. I had an issue similar with som Western Dig drives. Hope this helps

turned out to be a bad hard drive. thanks all...d ;)