SCSI Windows Setup on Dell Precision 670 Workstation...please help.

Question

Error Windows Setup: "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer"

This is not exactly a programming question but I thought you guys might be able to help. I just received a Dell Precision 670 workstation. Windows is not recognizing the hard drive and I have experienced this before with other computers. I usually would just go in the bios and set the configuration to compatibility mode.

I have no idea how to do this on this machine. There is this Adaptec SCSI HostRaid BIOS v4.30.4S5 screen on startup. It says to press CTRL A for SCSI select utility. It shows a Maxtor ATLAS10K5_73WLS for the drive.

I was wondering if anyone out there knew how to configure this thing so that windows setup will recognize the hard drive? Any advice is very much appreciated and if you have to know further information please let me know. Raid was turned off in the BIOS for this device.

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Answer 1

During initial boot you will see the option - Cntrl - A and configure the SCSI device. Appears the SCSI hard drive is not formatted. You must format it first to get it to recognize that it has a hard drive. Afterwards, reboot and you should be able to install the OS.