Still can't get XP Home to install on SATA Drives

[Guest]

First read the dialogue between Andrew and I on the 8th thread before this
one and this will give you an Idea of what happened first.

I took his advice, Configured sata's in the bios to raid and enabled SATA
Boot rom.
Note, sata's are connected to the Intel ICH6R SATA1(master) SATA3(SLave).
Should both be connected to the masters or like I have them?

After doing this I rebooted Hit ctrl + I and set up a raid volume. RAID 0
And 128. Rebooted again and hit F6 and installed the raid drivers I
downloaded from Intel.com.

After installing the drivers windows formatted the raid volume and went
through the preparing to install process and got all the way to installing
windows and I Still get the DATA Error Cyclic Redundancy Check. D:\1386\asms.

Fatal Error: One of the components windows needs to continue setup could
not be installed.

The following log says that if your booting from a CD there may be a problem
with the disc. Try cleaning it or using another disc, which I don't have.
The only one I have is an OEM that I purchased new with COA.

I even went back and set my DVD to master and CDrw to slave to see if it
would install from the DVD drive but it wouldn't. PLease someone help. Is
this most likely the Windows disc being defective or could it be something
else.

Seems like the hhds are fine. When windows is at the preparing to install
screen it shows that its trying to install on a 157GB drive, which is the
raid 0 volume consisting of the two 80 GB drives. Much thanks to anyone who
can help me.

 

[Mark [MSFT]]

Could be a few reasons to get a CRC failure. A CRC failure means that the
signature of the file on disk does not match the signature once unpacked
(well, in 20 words or less anyway.) It could mean it was unable to get the
CRC of the file on the CD - which would instantly fail.

So, one, the CD is bad. Other possible options: the CD IDE cables are too
close together (I gather you have two CD/DVD drives) causing cross talk
(move drive cables a few inches apart) - or IDE cables are against a power
cable. But since it fails in the same point more than once, I am guessing
media.

Off the top of my head, all I could think of. Or rather, that is all I am
aware of in your situation. I suppose it is possible that it is having
problems that I have no clue about - speed/clock issues, SATA, etc.

Good luck

 

[Guest]

SATA Drives do not have Master / Slave Jumpers. Some systems BIOS have
capacity limitations. Types that have been identified are:

a 2.11GB or 4095 cylinder limitation
a 3.26GB or 6322 cylinder limitation
a 4.22GB or 8192 cylinder limitation
a 8.45GB Standard INT13 limitation (CHS[1024x256x63]x512)
a 33.8GB or 66,060,287 LBAs limitation
a 137.4GB or 268,435,455 LBAs limitation (28-bit limit)

and, if exceeded, may cause the system to hang during boot, capacity
reduction or it can truncate or wrap the cylinders when auto-detect options
set in the CMOS.

New INT13 Extensions and LBA mode in BIOS and FAT32 or NTFS-based file
systems are required to acheive full capacity. FAT32 file system can create
single partitions and logical drives up to 2TB.

Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 with 48-bit LBA
Address drivers are required for native support of ATA (IDE) disc drives
greater than 137GB.

The CRC failure may be a result of poor quality media and not the CD drive
itself. You can attempt to copy the Windows Installation CD to one of your
hard drives. You'll need to copy the entire :\I386 folder across. Run the
file winnt.exe and it will commence the installation process.

If you still have media failure contact Microsoft Technical support to
arrange for a replacement CD.