hanZen Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Hi.... I have a Dell PC (Dimension 9150) that has two 160GB harddrives. I would really like to format those when I install windows! I have downloaded the SATA drivers and put them onto a floppy disk which is inserted when trying to install Windows. When the installation reaches the point where you have to choose a partition/harddrive it says that it cannot find any disk!?!? When I push a button I get a blue screen that says something with an error in the systemdd.sys or something like that!? How do I format the different harddrives in my PC, som I can have a new installation of Windows and OSX86? I know Dell has this 'restore' thing on a single partition and/or harddrive, and I would like to format that too! Anyone that can help me with this!?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20727-cant-find-any-disk-when-installing-windows/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 First of all have you tried it without loading the drivers? Second are you sure your install disk isnt damaged and what is on those hard drives now? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20727-cant-find-any-disk-when-installing-windows/#findComment-137087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I've got two suggestions: Try another driver. The symptoms you describe sound to me like they could be caused by a driver bug. (OTOH, I'm not an expert on Windows issues, so I could be wrong about this.) You may be able to find another version of the same driver, or a driver for the same hardware from another source. (You didn't specify where you got the driver -- Dell, the chipset manufacturer, a random drivers Web site, etc.) Try partitioning and, if possible, formatting the drives in another OS. If nothing else, there are NTFS formatting tools available in Linux, so you could try System Rescue CD, which has mkfs.ntfs to do the job. I believe you could do it from Mac OS if you've got the NTFS-3G package installed, but I'm not positive of that. Note that this will only help if the driver you've found is not the issue; I'm suggesting this based on the hypothesis that Windows is flaking out because of the unformatted disks or because of partitions it sees on those disks that it doesn't like. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20727-cant-find-any-disk-when-installing-windows/#findComment-1252178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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