Built my first computer, it will not boot up though?

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I have an ASUS P4P800 with Intel SATA. I have insyalled WinXP Pro through
several iterations of SATA disk upgrade and never loaded a SATA driver
until I installed an Adapteec SATA Raid controller so I now rune a RAID 1
 
David Mills said:
Johns,

How do you switch from IDE 0 to IDE 1?
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David,
You could also go to www.bootdisk.com and download the floppy disks and use
that option for booting and installing XP. It might be a better option than
buying another CD drive.

Ed
 
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It'd be a whole lot easier if MS would just fix their
software. IMO, there is no excuse for an OS that can start
booting from a drive but then "lose" itself. At the very
least they could've allowed alternate sources for the
driver.
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There are a couple things Microsoft could do to the installer that would
solve this problem instantly.

1) Check every visible disk drive the installer can recognize.
2) Use BIOS calls to check every available disk drive.
3) Allow the user to burn the drivers to CD and swap CDs
4) Allow the user to slipsteam the drivers on to the CD.

My biggest annoyance was the fact that I can boot from a USB drive or a
flash drive (and install WinXP from there), and the installer can
definitely use the USB drives two minutes later in the partitioning
screen, so it's annoying that it can't bother to look on those drives
(which the installer CAN see) for drivers.

I don't like the floppy myself, I use various flash media cards as
alternatives whenever possible and the whole concept of having to
purchase a floppy just to install Windows is annoying, but it's a
worthwhile investment of $20 at this point.
 
In message <[email protected]> kony


There are a couple things Microsoft could do to the installer that would
solve this problem instantly.

1) Check every visible disk drive the installer can recognize.
2) Use BIOS calls to check every available disk drive.
3) Allow the user to burn the drivers to CD and swap CDs
4) Allow the user to slipsteam the drivers on to the CD.

My biggest annoyance was the fact that I can boot from a USB drive or a
flash drive (and install WinXP from there), and the installer can
definitely use the USB drives two minutes later in the partitioning
screen, so it's annoying that it can't bother to look on those drives
(which the installer CAN see) for drivers.

I don't like the floppy myself, I use various flash media cards as
alternatives whenever possible and the whole concept of having to
purchase a floppy just to install Windows is annoying, but it's a
worthwhile investment of $20 at this point.
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Yes it would be very nice if we could convert to flash
gracefully. It meets the primary requirement of being
cheap, both for reader and media, providing one is content
with a few dozen MB of flash memory rather than a few GB,
but then we are talking about a floppy replacement rather
than a HDD replacement. I suppose for the cleanest
transition it would help if the flash reader operating from
(and emulated) a floppy drive, such that all the legacy
utilities just wrote to it with no complaints.

Backing up a bit, surely this isnt' even necessary for the
purpose of getting WinXP to boot. Unless I misunderstand
the situation they could set a variable for the boot drive,
then when control is handed off to WinXP during the boot
process, a simple continuance of the same bios-based drive
enumeration would be used until XP can make it's own drive
ID.
 
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