Installing XP on a sata drive

[Nishant Patel]

I'm trying to install Win XP on to a system with a SATA
drive but am having problems getting it to work. I have
gone through the setup proceedure and supplied the drivers
for the Sata drive, when the computer re-boots it will not
continue with setup and goes through the initial process
all over again. The MB i'm using is a Gigabyte GA-7N400
Pro2 the hard drive is a Maxtor 120GB Sata drive and the
system has 512MB Ram. Can anyone please help????

Nish

 

[Clyde]

-----Original Message-----
I'm trying to install Win XP on to a system with a SATA
drive but am having problems getting it to work. I have
gone through the setup proceedure and supplied the drivers
for the Sata drive, when the computer re-boots it will not
continue with setup and goes through the initial process
all over again. The MB i'm using is a Gigabyte GA-7N400
Pro2 the hard drive is a Maxtor 120GB Sata drive and the
system has 512MB Ram. Can anyone please help????

Nish
.

It may be that your machine is booting the CD after the
initial setup restarts the system. Try changing your BIOS
to boot off HDD0 after the initial setup. I am assuming
you are installing to a clean drive.

Good luck

Clyde

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----

It may be that your machine is booting the CD after the
initial setup restarts the system. Try changing your BIOS
to boot off HDD0 after the initial setup. I am assuming
you are installing to a clean drive.

Good luck

Clyde
.
I've tried to change the boot order but I still get the

same problem!! It is to a clean drive.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help, but I've already tried that

-----Original Message-----
Ok, only other thing I can think of is to try to boot with CD removed to check that
the drive is booting. If it works the install should

request the CD. I hope this works as I have run out of
ideas.

 

[E J B]

Did you try setting the first boot device to SCSI? I just set up two
of those machines and had no problems. I'll be setting up another in a
week. If you haven't found a solution by then, I'll report back.