I'm building a new PC to put Vista on. It's Intel core duo 6300 with
ECS P965A-T mobo. To check it out I put XP Home on it just so I could
make sure it's working. It installed XP fine and I have done all the
upgrades thru SP 2 and a zillion others from the MS update web page.

I have one SATA HD in it (maxtor 200 gig). I have a floppy and an
ATAPI/IDE Samsung DVD/CD RW+-
combo drive. It's also got a sapphire PCIex16 radeon video card. I
have installed the drivers that came with everything, the Mobo, the
DVD (plus updated the firmware), the Video card, modem, etc.

Here's the problem. I installed Partion Magic 8 to see what the HD
partition looked like to make sure I was getting the full 2000 gig. It
is.

To further check things I wanted to boot directly from the Partition
Magic as I would in an emergency. I can boot from the PM
CD but as it runs thru its little routine it wants to create a ramdisk
and make it the Y: drive. But it doesn't seem to be finding something
it wants and can't do that little routine so it can't copy the files
to the Y: drive and basically just drops out to DOS when its' script
fails.

Any clues on why this is happening??? Is there some kind of DOS
drivers XP is supposed to be loading but isn't? It's bugging the
heck out of me. My old computer with XP Pro on it boots PM properly
and creates the Y: drive and leaves itself in the "rescue" mode.

Simple,quit screwing with the 3rd party junk...Plus,SATA hds dont follow
the same routine IDE hds do,some MBs always require the F6 option others
dont.

"Ashton Crusher" wrote:

> I'm building a new PC to put Vista on. It's Intel core duo 6300 with
> ECS P965A-T mobo. To check it out I put XP Home on it just so I could
> make sure it's working. It installed XP fine and I have done all the
> upgrades thru SP 2 and a zillion others from the MS update web page.
>
> I have one SATA HD in it (maxtor 200 gig). I have a floppy and an
> ATAPI/IDE Samsung DVD/CD RW+-
> combo drive. It's also got a sapphire PCIex16 radeon video card. I
> have installed the drivers that came with everything, the Mobo, the
> DVD (plus updated the firmware), the Video card, modem, etc.
>
> Here's the problem. I installed Partion Magic 8 to see what the HD
> partition looked like to make sure I was getting the full 2000 gig. It
> is.
>
> To further check things I wanted to boot directly from the Partition
> Magic as I would in an emergency. I can boot from the PM
> CD but as it runs thru its little routine it wants to create a ramdisk
> and make it the Y: drive. But it doesn't seem to be finding something
> it wants and can't do that little routine so it can't copy the files
> to the Y: drive and basically just drops out to DOS when its' script
> fails.
>
> Any clues on why this is happening??? Is there some kind of DOS
> drivers XP is supposed to be loading but isn't? It's bugging the
> heck out of me. My old computer with XP Pro on it boots PM properly
> and creates the Y: drive and leaves itself in the "rescue" mode.
>