Problem on installing on Drives > 300 GB?

[Ward Horsfall]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me why Windows XP (and Windows 2003) do the following:

If I try to install either on a 300GB S-ATA drive I get a message like:

To Install Windows on the partition you selected. Setup must write some
startup files to the following disk:

......................................

This comes up if I have more than one S-ATA drive (a 300GB and a 200GB)
drive. However if I only have the 300GB drive installed - no problems
installation proceeds normaly.

Also if I do this with 2 x 200GB S-ATA drives no problem does not need the
startup files.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ward.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me why Windows XP (and Windows 2003) do the following:

If I try to install either on a 300GB S-ATA drive I get a message like:

To Install Windows on the partition you selected. Setup must write some
startup files to the following disk:

......................................

This comes up if I have more than one S-ATA drive (a 300GB and a 200GB)
drive. However if I only have the 300GB drive installed - no problems
installation proceeds normaly.

Also if I do this with 2 x 200GB S-ATA drives no problem does not need the
startup files.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ward.

 

[Ward Horsfall]

???

Was there a response missing here

Ward.

 

[Guest]

For a single drive the device configurations supported are non-RAID, RAID 1
and RAID 0.

When installing a single drive one follows the non-RAID installation: single
drive install is not supported in RAID because this setup requires the
simultaneous formatting of two drives.

It is my 'guess' that you may need to install other files when the drives
are 'unbalanced' in size.

 

[Ward Horsfall]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Should this even be the case as I was not trying to
build a RAID configuration?

Thanks,

Ward