I have an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard with an IDE hard drive and Win 2000.

I added a new Seagate SATA.
Used Disk Manager in Administrative Tools to format.
It is now H drive (NTFS).
OK now I try and load XP to it and during the install, on the blue
screen, it shows my existing "C" drive but the H drive is G and it will
not let me install on it. It shows it there as far as size goes.

In BIOS the only SATA settings are RAID and boot. I have tried these
setting both enabled and disabled to no avail.

I can move files on and off this drive while operating in Win2000 but I
can't install XP on it.

Any ideas?

SHRED wrote:
> I have an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard with an IDE hard drive and Win 2000.
>
> I added a new Seagate SATA.
> Used Disk Manager in Administrative Tools to format.
> It is now H drive (NTFS).
> OK now I try and load XP to it and during the install, on the blue
> screen, it shows my existing "C" drive but the H drive is G and it will
> not let me install on it. It shows it there as far as size goes.
>
> In BIOS the only SATA settings are RAID and boot. I have tried these
> setting both enabled and disabled to no avail.
>
> I can move files on and off this drive while operating in Win2000 but I
> can't install XP on it.
>
> Any ideas?

You need to load an F6 driver for the sata controller on your motherboard?

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spodosaurus wrote:
> SHRED wrote:
>> I have an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard with an IDE hard drive and Win
>> 2000.
>>
>> I added a new Seagate SATA.
>> Used Disk Manager in Administrative Tools to format.
>> It is now H drive (NTFS).
>> OK now I try and load XP to it and during the install, on the blue
>> screen, it shows my existing "C" drive but the H drive is G and it
>> will not let me install on it. It shows it there as far as size goes.
>>
>> In BIOS the only SATA settings are RAID and boot. I have tried these
>> setting both enabled and disabled to no avail.
>>
>> I can move files on and off this drive while operating in Win2000 but
>> I can't install XP on it.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> You need to load an F6 driver for the sata controller on your motherboard?
>

That's what I was going to say...

I have a slipstreamed copy of XP with SP2, that has the SATA drivers.
When I install XP I can just pop that in and I am set.

THANKS!!!!