Name: :D 2009-07-30 1:36
I built a computer for my friend, and we had all kinds of trouble with this. XP installed fine onto her old IDE drive.
Whenever I tried to install XP onto the new, decent-sized SATA drive, it would go into this Intel setup thing (it is an Intel branded board) where it would look for something, then have a boot failure. The same thing happened when I copied the IDE's XP installation to the SATA and unplugged the IDE.
The SATA drive is detected by the motherboard and XP and shows up in the BIOS. It reads and writes just like it should. It boots to XP with the IDE and SATA drives both plugged in.
Here is the motherboard and HDD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121351
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136109
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Whenever I tried to install XP onto the new, decent-sized SATA drive, it would go into this Intel setup thing (it is an Intel branded board) where it would look for something, then have a boot failure. The same thing happened when I copied the IDE's XP installation to the SATA and unplugged the IDE.
The SATA drive is detected by the motherboard and XP and shows up in the BIOS. It reads and writes just like it should. It boots to XP with the IDE and SATA drives both plugged in.
Here is the motherboard and HDD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121351
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136109
Thanks for any help you can offer.