Quote Originally Posted by darkwater
Windows XP crashed a couple of days ago and after much frustration in trying to re-install and update and repair I still can not boot up Windows XP. Having used Knoppix on an older computer for a friend and being very impressed with the system I turned to Knoppix once again to help me retrieve my files. Unfortunately once loaded Knoppix will not recognise my hard drive and it is nowhere to be seen on the desktop. The drive is a SATA Hard Drive(Seagate) and during boot up from the disk it is recognised by Knoppix initially. Can someone please help me in finding the hard drive.
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One of my hard drives is only mountable under the very latest Knoppix 5.1.1 DVD. It is a SATA drive with Intel ICH7 Raid Controller. Even though it is a single hard disk system (non-striped) ICH7 controller support is needed. I cannot even access the Hard Drive from an XP SP3 slistreamed CD to reinstall unless the OEM drivers have been integrated. Another solution is to go into the BIOS and downgrade the controller to ATAPI. It's under advanced settings. For OEM PC's, this is usually accessible by a special key combo. If del or F1 gets you into normal SMOS setup, F11 or ESC may get you to the RAID controller menus. This change affects the controller only and will cause no changes to the file system. That's also the answer BTW to re-installing XP. Switch to IDE mode install, and then use Intels's facility to convert the drive to RAID.