Would like to reinstall Windows

[Athertons]

Hi,
Our Pc is sufferring in silence!!!
I think a reinstalling of windows may help it, but have got the following little problem. :(

I have all the drivers for the SII 3112 RAID controller and it's associated bits, and when i attempt to reinstall pressing F6 installs the Drivers,

Then windows goes through the motion of installing , but when I want to format the drive [a Maxtor 6 L299M0] it says it can't find it. :evil:

When I installed the OS last the disk was "new" and it didnt have a problem.... Before i use maxblast to "blank" the drive and NOT be able to get anything back, I wondered if anyone had, had a similar problem? :?:

The PC is surviving, and it aint critical that I rebuild, but if i ever had to some forward planning may be of use :!:

Ta very much
:)

[Coops]

Could you provide the model Number of the PC in question as this will aid us in resolving your issue as without knowing all the hardware involved it makes things a bit more difficult.

If this is a novatech PC bought with Windows Preloaded are you using Novatech Recovery Media to perform the install.

[Athertons]

The system started out as one of your barebones systems..

here's a list of whats in there so far

Foxconn K8S755A M/B
2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64

128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: SiS-755
Bus Clock: 220 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 05/25/2005
1536 Megabytes Installed Memory
SiS 5513 IDE UDMA Controller

Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
SiS 180 RAID Controller
ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controller (3x)
SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller (3x)
SiS PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
NVIDIA GeForce 6600
Realtek AC'97 Audio

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

ASUS CRW-5232AS [CD-ROM drive]
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B [CD-ROM drive]
Maxtor 6L200M0 [Hard drive] (203.93 GB)

Hope this is enough - if not overkill!!??

[Coops]

Which of the connectors is your hard drive connected to.

Two are linked to an SIS SATA controller and the other two are linked to a SILCON IMAGE Controller.
Obviously you have to use the correct driver for which controller your drive is connected to.