Disk not being Recognised: Windows XP asking for driver

Hi,
Seems like your hard drive is malfunctioning, try another HD. That 80gb is already obsolete and the circuit board might have some defect.
If you could pull out the underside circuit and clean the gold contact points and try it again, if still not working...... buy a new one!
Check also the jumper and cable it must be in the "master" configuration.

Hope that helps you out!
Thanks for asking FixYa!

it ok its mean you must turn on your computer than your hard will work.its the law of computer for every hard disk..

Yes, your can format the hard drive and install Windows this drive
If you have the Windows XP disk it will partition the drive also
The drive must be fully formatted to work properly.

If it's the same for all the hard disks then the problem is in the install/Windows disk = that copy isn't ok. Use another one.

You must first press f6 to load the SATA drivers for the hard drive before you go forward with the install.

Good Luck,

NOLA Tech

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If you have one HDD set it to master with your jumper settings. Try again. If No go than change the cable connector. If SATA HDD than change the connector on the MOBO try another connector. Restart. If still no go than write back

windows xp setup not creat the partation.
and not show the tha harddisk,but harddisk are showing the bios setup.
my system is ACER ASPIRE tower Casing.

You don' t say what OS or even type of computer (PC, Mac, Windows XP, 98, vista etc) you are running, or whether the drive has been used before. If it's a new drive then it probably needs formatting, so you can allow the OS to do that. If it contains data that you need then DO NOT allow the OS to format it.

If you know it is formatted & contains data, then it sounds like the OS is not recognising the format. Windows 98 typically won't recognise NTFS disks formatted on Windows XP for example or Linux Ext3/4 format disks won't be recognised by Windows. In the latter case, you can download a free driver which will do that for you - google Ext 4 and Windows.

The problem is that u have done partitions for 160 GB harddisk, so do all the partitions of 40 GB or less than that.