Fresh XP install on SATA

[Jonnybravo]

I've just done a fresh install of XP home edition (don't think its SP2) onto
my 300gb SATA hard drive. I used a disk to install the drivers (from my
motherboard CD) so it recognised my hard drive at full size during
installation and setup. But when it rebooted and it went through the windows
startup (black screen bit) but then it rejects the hard drive saying
'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME'
Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Bjarke Andersen]

=?Utf-8?B?Sm9ubnlicmF2bw==?= <[email protected]>
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I've just done a fresh install of XP home edition (don't think its
SP2) onto my 300gb SATA hard drive. I used a disk to install the
drivers (from my motherboard CD) so it recognised my hard drive at
full size during installation and setup. But when it rebooted and it
went through the windows startup (black screen bit) but then it
rejects the hard drive saying 'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME'
Anyone have any ideas?

48bit LBA was introduced with XP since SP1a.

If you dont mind SP2, then use a slipstreamed XP Home SP2, install media.

Bart has a guide here http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#wxp but you can also use
nLite, which can also slipstream storage drivers into the media.

 

[Bjarke Andersen]

=?Utf-8?B?Sm9ubnlicmF2bw==?= <[email protected]>
crashed Echelon writing

I've just done a fresh install of XP home edition (don't think its
SP2) onto my 300gb SATA hard drive. I used a disk to install the
drivers (from my motherboard CD) so it recognised my hard drive at
full size during installation and setup. But when it rebooted and it
went through the windows startup (black screen bit) but then it
rejects the hard drive saying 'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME'
Anyone have any ideas?

48bit LBA was introduced with XP since SP1a.

If you dont mind SP2, then use a slipstreamed XP Home SP2 install media.

Bart has a guide here http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#wxp but you can also use
nLite, which can also slipstream storage drivers into the media.

 

[Jonnybravo]

Ok next problem

My CD Burner drive has failed me miserably, no longer works, so i cannot
make a bootable cd. Is there any other way i can fix this problem?

 

[Bjarke Andersen]

My CD Burner drive has failed me miserably, no longer works, so i cannot
make a bootable cd. Is there any other way i can fix this problem?

Start machine in dos and install from USB flash media.

 

[Andy]

I've just done a fresh install of XP home edition (don't think its SP2) onto
my 300gb SATA hard drive. I used a disk to install the drivers (from my
motherboard CD) so it recognised my hard drive at full size during
installation and setup. But when it rebooted and it went through the windows
startup (black screen bit) but then it rejects the hard drive saying
'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME'
Anyone have any ideas?

Need more details. What motherboard do you have?

 

[Jonnybravo]

ASUS M2N-MX SE. 4200+ Athlon XP Dual core
It recognises my HD as 300gb but won't reboot

 

[Anna]

ASUS M2N-MX SE. 4200+ Athlon XP Dual core
It recognises my HD as 300gb but won't reboot

There are a variety of causes that type of problem. One of them is simply a
defective HDD (notwithstanding that the BIOS and/or the OS detects the
drive).

Since this is a fresh install of the OS I assume there's no data on that
disk that you need. So have you tried another fresh-install of the OS?
Always with the same problem?

Another thing to try is to boot to your XP installation CD and access the
Recovery Console (the first "R" during setup). Use the chkdsk /r command and
see if that corrects the problem.

You might also want to check out the disk with the HDD diagnostic utility
available from the disk's manufacturer.
Anna