I have a huge problem that was caused a few months ago by a power surge/outage. I had lost power and it had fried my motherboard and power supply. After replacing these components (As well as the CPU just in case) with identical parts I figured I could boot the PC on and use the Windows installation disc to repair the installation. Well this didn't seem to work. After the windows XP installation boot up it informed me that it could not find a hard drive.

I figured this problem might be caused by windows not having the proper SATA RAID drivers. So I attempted to resolve this by downloading the SATA RAID drivers from my motherboards manufacturers website and went back to attempt the windows installation... however the same problem is occurring. I am extremely confused because the PC has the identical setup that it did before and I didn't have any trouble installing windows the first time. I thought maybe the hard drives got fried to from the power surge/outage, but when I boot up with from a Linux CD it can find both hard drives with all there files still in tact. If anyone has any suggestions it would be appreciated. I need to repair this PC soon for school or I'll be forced to build a new one.

Thank you for reading and any suggestions you can offer.

PC Specs:
CPU: AMD 4000+ 64Bit
Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 nForce4 PCIE
Power Supply: Antec 550W
HDD1: Western Digital 10K Raptor SATA 36GB
HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 7.2K SATA 320GB
RAM: 2GB Corsair

The SATA drivers I am attempting to use is what the motherboard manufacturers website suggested. "Silicon Image Serial ATA Raid 5 driver" Is the name of the driver.

Again, thank you for reading and any suggestions you may have to offer.

Does the bios detect the hard drive?

Thanks for the reply but I seem to have figured out the problem... And I feel like a complete Idiot. I was looking at the diagram in the manual from my previous motherboard (which is the same model as the replacement one). However the older manual appears to have a misprint in the diagram and the SATA ports and RAID ports were mislabeled. After examining my motherboard closer I finally noticed I had them plugged into the wrong ones and simply changing them corrected this problem... Thanks again for the reply, and sorry for this now useless thread. I am still confused how Linux was able to find and access the hard drives but I am pretty new to Linux so maybe its normal. Anyway this thread can be removed or locked if necessary. And I thank you again for the reply.