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JasonB
I've been trying to install WinXP on to an IDE disk I have in my PC
without much luck, at least not without swapping around the disk
controller priority in the BIOS which means I can't boot from the SATA
drive.
My current PC is based around the KV8-MAX3 with an Maxtor 80GB drive
hooked up to IDE2 Primary. On IDE 1 Primary I have a Sony DRU510 DVD-RW.
I've also got a Sumsung SATA 160GB drive hooked up to the Via 8237 SATA
controller via SATA1. My floppy drive is a Sony USB Floppy drive.
In total, this board will cater for 6 SATA drivers, 2 using the VIA 8237
on-chip controller and another 4 using the Silicon Image onboard
controller. The PC is configured in the BIOS to boot from the SATA
drive and the VIA SATA controller has boot priority.
When I install XP64 with the SATA drivers for the Via 8237 I load the
drivers using F6 and go through the screens. Eventually it gets to the
file copy stage and then asks for the Driver Disk again, but it's in the
drive already - for some reason it just won't move on from this point.
When I install XP64 without the SATA drivers I go through the setup and
it copies the files across succesfully and then when I reboot, nothing
happens, it hasn't changed the boot options on the SATA drive (which is
my primary boot drive). The boot files for XP64 have been installed on
the IDE disk.
Initially I though that this may be a problem with using a USB floppy
drive to install but it works just fine if I install to the SATA drive,
just not when installing to the IDE drive - wtf is going on?
Short of just migrating my Win32 boot parition to the IDE disk and
booting off the IDE disk for both XP32 and XP64 I don't know what else
to do, can anyone offer any guidance here cos I feel like I'm banging my
head against a brick wall now....
without much luck, at least not without swapping around the disk
controller priority in the BIOS which means I can't boot from the SATA
drive.
My current PC is based around the KV8-MAX3 with an Maxtor 80GB drive
hooked up to IDE2 Primary. On IDE 1 Primary I have a Sony DRU510 DVD-RW.
I've also got a Sumsung SATA 160GB drive hooked up to the Via 8237 SATA
controller via SATA1. My floppy drive is a Sony USB Floppy drive.
In total, this board will cater for 6 SATA drivers, 2 using the VIA 8237
on-chip controller and another 4 using the Silicon Image onboard
controller. The PC is configured in the BIOS to boot from the SATA
drive and the VIA SATA controller has boot priority.
When I install XP64 with the SATA drivers for the Via 8237 I load the
drivers using F6 and go through the screens. Eventually it gets to the
file copy stage and then asks for the Driver Disk again, but it's in the
drive already - for some reason it just won't move on from this point.
When I install XP64 without the SATA drivers I go through the setup and
it copies the files across succesfully and then when I reboot, nothing
happens, it hasn't changed the boot options on the SATA drive (which is
my primary boot drive). The boot files for XP64 have been installed on
the IDE disk.
Initially I though that this may be a problem with using a USB floppy
drive to install but it works just fine if I install to the SATA drive,
just not when installing to the IDE drive - wtf is going on?
Short of just migrating my Win32 boot parition to the IDE disk and
booting off the IDE disk for both XP32 and XP64 I don't know what else
to do, can anyone offer any guidance here cos I feel like I'm banging my
head against a brick wall now....