Can't install xp on my sata drive

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Alex - 29 Nov 2006 03:17 GMT

Hi all

I have 2 IDE hard drives and now I want to add a 250GB Seagate SATA
drive and make this my boot drive with a fresh windows install and use
my older IDE drives as additional storage. In the past week I have been
unable to setup xp on that sata. I boot pc from windows xp home cd, then
when prompted, I press F6 to install third party RAID drivers. After
installing RAID drivers(I tried all of them in the list, RAID as well
as AHCI, ICH7, ICH6, ICH5,...) setup continues loading files and after
that...I get a blue screen with an error message (code 0x0000007B) that
says that xp is shut down to avoid damage and that I should try chkdsk
or virusscan, blabla...

*I tried xp sp1a
*I made an xp with sp2 cd (slipstreamed or whatever you call it)
*I tried xp professional sp1
*I used RAID drivers from my motherboard CD
*I used RAID drivers from ASUS website
*I updated my BIOS successfully to latest version
*I tried booting without and with my old IDE drives connected
*I tried port SATA1 as well as SATA2

And it all gave the same error message.

The strange thing is that when I boot normally from my old IDE drive, in
windows my sata drive appears in disc management as a non-partitioned
drive. So it is recognised.

In device manager I cannot see any RAID or AHCI entry, which is strange
because the F6 RAID floppy utility readme file says the following about
this: "Your system does not appear to be running in RAID or
AHCI mode. If you feel that your system is running in
RAID or AHCI mode and you do not see any of the
controllers listed above, you may choose to contact
your system manufacturer or place of purchase for
assistance"

I thought of partitioning and formatting the sata when booted from my
old IDE to windows but then my sata will get drive letter G:\ and I have
a horrible feeling that I won't be able to change that to C:\ afterwards
to make the sata the (primary)boot drive(?)

Is there any other way to get Bully Gates' OS to setup on this SATA??

Any help is much appreciated.

Alex

Intel P4 775socket
windows xp home sp2 32bit
ASUS P5LD2 mobo

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Hertz_Donut - 29 Nov 2006 04:21 GMT

> Hi all
>
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> windows xp home sp2 32bit
> ASUS P5LD2 mobo

It appears that Google and all other search engines are not working in your
area. I hope they get them working again. In the interim, I entered the
stop code into Google and had an answer in seconds, of which the following
is representative:

http://northtechs.com/blscreen.htm

Item #6

You are not installing the proper SATA drivers for your motherboard. You
should contact their support for the correct ones, instead of trying to
guess which ones are correct. In addition, make sure that you have made the
appropriate changes in BIOS to enable both the SATA ports and to allow them
to be bootable.

Honu

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Delta - 29 Nov 2006 17:34 GMT

> > Hi all
> >
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> Honu

First of all,Herz_Donut, what's your problem?? Did your wife say "NO!"
to you before you decided to move from your bed to the computer to
check this group?? I don't like the tone with which you started your
message! Maybe you need to go to the library and get yourself a book
called "netiquette" or maybe "how to be friendly on the internet"!

Second, I read that page too and that's why I downloaded the latest
drivers from asus site instead of using the ones from the asus cd that
came with the motherboard.

Third, so you're telling me that the asus drivers on the cd are not the
correct ones and neither are the ones on the website?? WELL, THEN ASUS
SHOULD START CONSIDERING PUTTING THE CORRECT DRIVERS ON THEIR SITE THIS
TIME!!

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Hertz_Donut - 29 Nov 2006 17:44 GMT

>> > Hi all
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> SHOULD START CONSIDERING PUTTING THE CORRECT DRIVERS ON THEIR SITE THIS
> TIME!!

Chill. I was trying to stress that perhaps you should use Google first, as
the solution to your problem is very easy.

You must use the correct driver for your chipset. ASUS makes very good
boards, but they can use different chipsets even within the same model
family.
Either you are loading the wrong driver, or you do not have your BIOS
settings correct. *IF* your BIOS is set correctly, and *IF* you load the
correct driver when prompted at the F6 prompt, then your SATA drive should
work. If it doesn't, then the drive is either not formatted, or has some
other problem.

Honu.

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Delta - 29 Nov 2006 19:20 GMT

> >> > Hi all
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> Honu.

Now that sounds a lot better:-) Thank you for your advise, I will try
some new drivers and check BIOS settings and then I'll let you know if
it worked or not so that others may have some useful info from this
topic too.

Delta

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