Hard drive recognized as SCSI

[ingeborgdot]

I am helping my brother in law out trying to do a non destructive repair using the installation disc. When we went through all the steps and got to the section that shows the hard drives it does not recognize the hard drive and won't let us do a repair. If we wanted to do a clean install it still would not recognize the hdd.
I decided to check bios and see what was recognized and in the hdd section it showed that the hdd was a SCSI. It is not a SCSI drive. We checked PC Wizard 2008 and it showed SCSI. All the places show that it is a SCSI. What is causing this? It is not a SCSI drive but a SATA drive. Can anyone tell me what has happened?

[jimmyz]

mine say it too. I never worried about it. I assumed it was due to being sata 2 3.0gb/s

[Mad_Man]

sorry to say, but it can be vista/driver/chipset related
here on my rig, XP32/64 sees my drives as sata2, vista 32/64 sees them as scsi

[ingeborgdot]

This is on an XP Home OS. The main problem is that when we went to do a repair it won't recognize the drive at all. So, if we wanted to do a clean install it just would not let us.