Setting Up Hard drives for FDisk

[cshajkur]

My hard drive are connected to a Ultra ATA/133 PCI controller card which provides additional two extra controller channels. The extra channels do not appear in the BIOS settings. How can I fdisk, and install an OS on the hard drive, connected to a PCI controller, if it doesn't appear in the Bios settings. I have Partition Magic, Ghost, and Nero Burning software to use once I'm able to access drives from Dos. I don't know how to set up the program that will give me access to fdisk drives via the controller. Here is the description:

Description of Device:
The SiI 0680 is a single-chip solution for designs based on chipsets without an integrated ATA host controller, or those requiring a greater number of ATA channels to accommodate the growing number of storage peripherals with an ATA interface. By simply adding a card with the SiI 0680 and loading the accompanying driver, any system with a PCI bus interface may now upgrade to the Ultra ATA/133 interface.

Summarized:
The new 80GB HD contains no OS so it needs to be formatted so that I can transfer files from the smaller 10.3, 13.6, 40GB Hard Drives to the newly reformatted and partitioned 80GB Hard Drive. To reiterate I want to know how To set up the new drive for formatting and installation of transferred files which are connected to Sil 0680 Controller no shown in the motherboard BIOS Settings???

 

[wolluf]

You might be better posting in forum751 or forum602.

Doesn't the PCI card effectively have its own bios?

Have you loaded the drivers?

Have you tried running fdisk?

I don't use controller cards (so just making general suggestions) - but I'm sure you'll get a more informed response from the hardware forums I mentioned.

 

[jrbarnett]

cshajkur,

Can I suggest installing the controller drivers in your current Win98 installation, then after rebooting you should be able to access the drive from within 95/98.

You can then run Partition Magic from within there to set the partitions up.
If you want to transfer the working Windows installation though, you will need to use something like Ghost or Drive Image to be run from DOS, as otherwise you won't get all open files copied.

John

 

[micker377]

During boot-up, there is usually a screen that indicates that your card is being initialized. My card says (I only use mine for CD drives, so I've never used it) "press F1 to access setup". See if you can do anything from this screen.

 

[Blujacket]

I'd certainly read this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q263044