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XP won't install to SATA

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.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-30 2:16

I believe XP does not have support for sata drives when installing.  You will need to load the drivers needed for sata support via a floppy or a custom windows cd.  If using a floppy, install the drivers at the screen where it asks if you need 3rd party RAID drivers.  I think if you slipstream the drivers on a custom cd it will install normally.

Also, Google is your friend!

Name: :D 2009-07-30 2:53

>>2
Right, this is what /g/ said before and what I found on Google.  But someone said it would at least get to the XP setup screen and tell me no drive was found.

To summarize, times it gets boot failure with XP disc in or out:
-only IDE DVD drive
-IDE DVD drive plus blank SATA HDD
-IDE DVD drive plus SATA HDD with XP copied
-only SATA HDD with XP copied

Don't change these.
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