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- Nov 29, 2003
I just got my 74gb Western Digital Raptor (SATA), and I can't seem to be able to install windows on it. When it loads up and says "press f6 to install 3rd party drivers" I mash the hell out of F6, and it just ignores me. I've tried like 4 different keyboards, and it simply wont acknowledge that I pressed F6. So I continue on and a little later it says it doesnt recognize the drive and finally allows me to install the SATA drivers off the floppy. Now when I go to select where I want to install windows, it wont let me choose the raptor. I get a message saying "windows-xp cannot be installed on this.." when I choose it, which is because It's not in any file format. Normally, with any other harddrive, when I would select to install windows on it, it will format it...here it does not. I dont even get an option to format my sata drive. I'm confused as hell...any help is appreciated.