Installation Problems

[Alex Sohn]

I recently went out and bought a new computer system that
I built myself. I also have a 250G S-ATA Seagate
Harddrive that had a previous installation of WinXP Pro
on it so I assumed it was just a matter of switching it
out of my old system and putting it in my new one.
However upon installing the hard drive WinXP refused to
install, so I booted from the XP install disk and erased
my harddrive and started a new installation of XP
Professional, however I now get an error stating there is
no installed harddrive, however I was able to install
Win98 SE and it recognizes the harddrive just fine with
no problem at all so I thought I should be able to
install WinXP from 98 as an upgrade no problem, but the
same problem keeps popping up. Any help with this would
be greatly appreciated because I have a lot of
hardware/software that is incompatiable with anything but
WinXP.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Install SP2, I think older versions of XP such SP1 and RTM only recognize up
to 137GB. You also might need drivers for since its SATA drive.

Andre

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Install SP2, I think older versions of XP such SP1 and RTM only
recognize up to 137GB.

No, that limit applies to pre-SP1 versions. It's gone starting
with SP1.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I recently went out and bought a new computer system that
I built myself. I also have a 250G S-ATA Seagate
Harddrive that had a previous installation of WinXP Pro
on it so I assumed it was just a matter of switching it
out of my old system and putting it in my new one.

A SATA drive and its controllers need different drivers. A floppy with
them should have come with the drive with a controller card or
motherboard. When setting up Windows there will immediately after
booting be a black screen with a white bar and 'Hit F6 to install
special drivers'. Hit F6 and offer the floppy in the drive