My maxtor sata hdd not installed any os - Maxtor OneTouch A01B080 80 GB Hard Drive

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Find in your BIOS if you have an option that says configure SATA as IDE, AHCI and raid. Set it at IDE and try again to install the OS. After intaling do not switch back because it will not work.

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*If you have access to another computer with a cd burner*

One way is to download the universal boot cd, boot a linux rescue disk image from it and use fdisk to remove all partitions.
This way the disk will be seen by windows setup again.

This is a silly bug in windows setup i've discovered a long time ago. When it does not understand the partitions on a disc it just hangs during the setup screen.

Download the iso image from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html then burn the iso image to a blank cd. Put it in your dead machine's cd drive and boot from it. Then choose one of the linux boot options.

When linux is up and running type fdisk ENTER
Then press p and a list of partitions comes up

Press d (delete) and then the number you see after /dev/hda etc.

Do this for every partition you see listed or just for
the first if there is data on the second/third/etc..

Press w (write) q (quit) and reboot with the windows cd in place.

p.s. This does irreversably remove
partitions and data on the disk!

Iqbal Husain

• 655 Answers
• Posted on Mar 10, 2008

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Jonathan
Your question is very much clear. I understand your problem. But the technic the widnows uses to install software is not so simple that they use path and folder name for the application, actually the do alot of things to your registry too. And its not easy to modify all of them to indicate that these software is now located at this drive or location.

If you are well known with partions then do one thing:
1. Copy your all files and folder to your F drive from D drive
2. Delete all files and folder from D drive
3. Load and run partion magic.
(To Download click here or search on net)
4. Using partition magic delete the partition D
5. After deleting the partition D, resize your C partition.

After that you will get more space on your C drive.

Note: You can use partion magic to resize or delete partion without data loss.

Thanks
Iqbal

SOURCE: Hi, I have a maxtor SATA drive with my OS

The computer has to determine from which hard drive it will be booting
it cannot do so on its own
the user has to tell that to the computer through the bios
when your computer starts keep pressin F2 or delete key (acc to which you bios starts)
you will see a blue screen with lots of info on it

somewhere in there you will see a "boot " section, in there you will see hard drive priority
on that select your hard drive that has the OS as top hard drive
save and exit

there you go

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check with this configuration,