Installation Nightmare (SATA)

J

James

I'm having an absolute nightmare installing XP. Here's my current setup. I
have a primary 160 GB SATA drive that has XP pro installed. It works fine.
I have a secondary 750 GB SATA drive I use for storage. I have just added a
150 GB SATA Raptor drive (10K RPM) to my configuration. Plug-n-played fine
with my windows installation, writeable, etc. Now I have another copy of XP
I want to install on this Raptor drive.

I have an nVidia nForce4 motherboard. I formatted the drive, slipstreamed
the raid controller drivers into the XP install disk (I have no floppy) and
I get through the text part of the install when I boot off the CD. It finds
the drive and life is good. Then it reboots and I get the error at the
bottom. I found a KB article on it, tried every solution and none worked.
I'm at my wit's end trying to get XP to install on this drive. It has a
boot.ini file on it, it creates the windows directory, it just instantly
goes to this error message after the initial BIOS loading screen. Someone
suggested swapping which SATA connection I'm using or throwing an IDE drive
into the mix, but I'm not entirely certain how either would help. Any help
would be so appreciated you have no idea.

Error:

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration
problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and
disk hardware. Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk
configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional
information."

Thanks,
James
 
T

thecreator

Hi James,

Open up the computer and disconnect the SATA Cable from both ends and
reattach the cables to the components. I had the same problem. I thought I
properly installed the cables the first time, but did not. Do not force the
Cable ends onto the components.
 
J

James

Because without the controller drivers, the XP installer can't find my
drives at all.
 

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