Recent content by S34d0g

... While I'm happy that you got your drive back :) I seriously doubt that Windows 7 changed/set any options in the BIOS. A more likely scenario is that the option had originally been set to "ACPI/RAID/whatever it was befor you set it to ATA", Windows XP was preinstalled with the appropriate...

are you sure it's a Windows 7 issue? What immediately sprang to mind: is the HDD a SATA drive? maybe you need a special driver during the installation? I don't have any experience with Win 2003 server, but I can hazard a conjecture that it's like Windows XP in this respect - simply put, it does...