My seagate hdd is not starting, (40 gb) ata, is see it in bios but when windows isnstalation must start appears an error, I/0 eroor press any key to reboot, need help!

Hi.

XP will not install until you go into the BIOS and find the menu page (probably by moving across the top level of tabs) where the SATA hard drives are configured. On that page you will see the ports and at least one, maybe all, will be Enabled. Close to that will be the port mode, usually setable individually for each port. Choices may include IDE (or PATA) Emulation, SATA, AHCI. Set your port to IDE emulation. Now look at the bottom for the key to Save and Exit - often the F10 key, press that key and select OK, the computer will restart and you should now be able to install Windows XP without any problems.

To get into the BIOS you have to press the Del or Esc key when you first turn the computer on.


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You do not need a driver, I suspect the Seagate hard drive may be faulty.
Try conncting your hard drive as a Slave drive in your computer, if the BIOS does not detect the hard drive then the hard drive is faulty.

Have you tried to format it???

if HDD detect's on bios then just formate your HDD it will start woking

check HDD and RAM, make sure your HDD new formated

This error is telling you that either one of three things have happened. 1. Your hdd cable has come loose or failed. 2. Your HDD has failed, or 3. the IDE controller on the motherboard has failed. You can check problems by trying a known good hdd in place of your old hdd. If bios sees it then it is the drive itself that is bad not the cable or controller. If it does not see the good hdd then try replacing the cable. If this fixes the problem then remove good drive & replace with your old hdd. Problem should be solved. Hope this helps & please take a moment to rate this solution. Thanks.

Change the settings of you IDE drives in your BIOS. Set your secondary boot device to HDD1. Also make sure that your primary HDD is set to master and the secondary HDD is slave. The jumper is found at the back of the hard drive where you connect the power and IDE cables. Try this and post back as to how it went..

I don't think you have a problem with the BIOS version but more likely with the settings.
Please enter in the BIOS and be sure that under: main menu, ide configuration, Parallel ATA IDE controller is set up as Primary. Then you go under advance menu, Serial ATA IDE controller and be sure you don't have RAID.

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Let's start with this checks and then let me know.

i have sata hdd 160 gb of seagate and hdd detected in raid channelbut when start installing window it shows message press enter for fresh installation "no hdd found please check power card,bios configuration

set its jumpher ot the slave position and plug it on ide2/secondary port of the motherboard and dected it from bios setting of the pc which appears when u press delet/f2 buttin when computer starts.