Many thanks Freestone! I have never used the Disk Management tool before, as I have never formatted/managed a disk from within Windows, I am initialising and formatting it as I speak, hopefully it will be fine.
One more question, would you think the initial failure of the Raptor was a simple...
The only option within the SATA Bios is for a low level format, which I have done, there is no other way to access the drive to carry out any maintenance such as installing a file system etc?
Well I have sorted some stuff out. Unforunately my BIOS does not have those settings Ski, but I downloaded the latest SATA Silicon drivers from ASUS, and reinstalled both at installation of windows and once installed within Windows, I managed to get the Backup SATA drive to be recognised and...
Right did a full scan of the Samsung, no errors and then rebooted it and all appears fine with that drive, XP installed
Now when I run the DOS Diag HUTIL prog from SAMSUNG, it picks up the SATA Drive (any of the two I have) and I then get an access violation on the DOS utility and it crashes...
Many thanks for the link, once the Samsungs download centre is up again I will download the utility, but one thing I did notice now is that I cannot boot the primary drive with the SATA drive connected as I get the HAL.DLL Missing or corrupt message on startup?
I will run the diagnostic and...
Firstly Hello all!
I have a scan of the forums and some info pertained to this problem but others didnt so I am still a little confused as to what is the problem. Its a bit of a long one so I would appreciate the effort!
Firstly the machine in question is:
XP3200 (32 Bit), ASUS A7N8X Deluxe...
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