Install failure of XP Pro on Intel SE7505VB2 w/SATA disk.

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Bob

Hi,

I'm trying to install XP Pro on my system. It has
a 160 gig Maxtor SATA drive configured as a base ATA
drive (NO RAID).

I am able to boot the XP Pro CD off the CD-ROM ok and
load in all the base files including the SATA config
files provided by INTEL.

However when the system reboots, it does not see the
hard disk and I geth the message, "Operating System not
found".

If I then proceed to boot off the CD-ROM instead and
load in the SATA config files, it WILL see the disk but
wants to RE-install the files all over again.

How do I get XP Pro to "see" the disk I just installed
the base files to?

I am sure the BIOS is configured corectly.

Can someone help me?

Thanks,

Bob.
 
Bob I had simliar problems with running RAID.
Bottom line you need to do 2 things.
One make sure that your SATA is the boot drive.
Two make sure you load the correct SATA drivers for the system.

One of these will fix the problem. You may think you have done both of them
correctly to your knowledge but keep searching because somewhere in one of
those to items your problem exist.

From the statement below I believe it is option one that is causing your
frustrations.

Jamie
 
Jamie,

As a follow-up, I noticed when BIOS completes and prints
a summary screen, it "thinks" it only sees the CD-ROM as
HD1 (I'm guessing primary master (IDE?)). I'm not sure if
it should be reporting the SATA drive, I don't see it on
the summary screen.

The Boot sequence has: 1) legacy floppy;
2) the HDD (Maxtor...); 3) CD-ROM; 4) Network

I loaded in the SATA drivers from the INTEL CD provided
with the server board (via F6).

Where did you setup/verify in BIOS your SATA is the
boot drive?

I'll keep plugging...

Bob.
 
I'm guessing at some of this because I don't have my SATA drive setup now.
I'm used to these problems from RAID controllers and SCSI controllers
though.

Here is what I vision. In your boot sequence or somewhere in your bios
(what type of Motherboard do you have?) you should be able to select SATA or
something that refers to it. Then in the SATA bios this is seperate from
your regular bios you select which drive you want bootable. You need to do
both sections in order for it to use SATA.

Seems like my motherboards has a seperate bios (main bios) question that
asked which controller either SCSI or ATA. So you might have a seperate
question besides your boot setup that ask SATA or ATA.

Jamie
 
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