12 Apr 2010 10:28
PC-BSD 8.0 Can't see my hard drives
Hi all. I originally posted a thread on the forum, but was recommended by a user there to post my problem here. Here is the thread link to the forum, http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15265&sid=8537f9c313f5085b435fc9bdb48be865 The problem I am having is that I cannot install PCBSD because it cannot see my hard drives. My system is ASUS M3A78 Pro Mother board AMD Phenom x4 <at> 2600 MHz chip 6144 MB Ram 3x WD hard drives 320, 500 and 500 GB NVidia GE force 7300 le Video card The OS at the moment is Vista 64 bit with XP in dual boot using freebsd When I start the install process a message comes up when it is reading my hard drives " Attempt to Query device size failed : Not ready, medium not present" Then when I get to the section to select which hard drive to install on it only shows my USB external drive, My USB printer as a drive and the card reader as 4 drives, but no hard drives. So far I have updated my BIOS to the latest version, and changed the type of disk controller from IDE to AHCI, but that did not work, and Vista could not then see the hard drive either so I had to change it back to IDE, although the disks are in fact SATA. I forgot to mention that this is a copy of PCBSD that was ordered from the website as I only have a 2Gig monthly download allowance and very slow broadband.(Continue reading)
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