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Hard drive not found during installation
Have acquired a Western Digital hdd,320gb SATA,which gives the following message when trying to install XP,"Setup did not find any hard disk drives on your computer.Setup cannot continue."
I ran Data lifeguard diagnostics and on the Quick test got"Completed without errors,Error status code 0000"
Then used the "Write zeros" to clean the drive and "No errors found,error status code 0000"
Finally ran the Extended Test and again"No errors found,code 0000"
So tried XP again and no go,same not found once more.
Then installed a Linux,FreeBSD,works normally.
Clean drive using Dban and installed Ubuntu 12 and it works just fine.
Installed the drive into another machine running XP and the drive shows in BIOS and Device Manager,which says the drive is operating normally{in Properties} BUT the drive does not show in Computer.
Because Linux use a different boot loader,GRUB,this seems to me,where the problem might be,but I really don't know.I have been in touch with WD to ask about the Master Boot Record,no luck so far.
Any more head scratching and I'll become a permanent redhead.
I've run out of ideas.
Joe Smith