When booting with the Windows XP cd you MUST use the F6 option and
supply the Promise drivers on a floppy diskette. At the beginning of
the Setup routine you will see a message at the bottom of the screen,
something like "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or
RAID driver", you MUST do so at that time, if you miss the cue you will
have to reboot again. You MUST supply the drivers on a floppy diskette,
the setup program will not accept them from any other media source.
If Windows is already installed and you wish to use the card without a
reinstall then you MUST install the Promise controller drivers BEFORE
you install the card. This is by far the preferred method of installing
controller cards when Windows is already installed.
You now have two options:
1- Do an in-place upgrade (repair installation) using your Windows XP
cd and supplying the Promise drivers on a floppy diskette.
2- Being that the IDE pins on the Primary controller are damaged, move
the drive to the secondary controller and boot Windows on that
controller and preinstall the Promise drivers. Then install the card in
the computer and move the drive to the card, Windows should boot
properly on the Promise card. When you move the drive to the secondary
IDE controller on the motherboard you will have to modify the rdisk
value accordingly in the boot.ini file. To do so move the drive to the
secondary controller then boot to the Recovery Console and use the
bootcfg /rebuild command. The map arc command may also be useful.
While option #2 appears to be a bit cumbersome it is by far the
preferred option! Unless you want to deal with messy reinstalls...
An even easier preffered method of booting the computer after you
temporarily move the drive to a different IDE controller would be to use
a Boot Floppy Diskette! It takes about 2 minutes to make and will
eliminate the need to use the Recovery Console altogether! The diskette
MUST be made with an NT type computer, do not use a Windows 9x computer
to create the disk, if you do the disk will fail to boot Windows XP.
How to create a Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP or Server 2003 boot floppy disk
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ntboot/
A discussion about the Bootcfg command and its uses
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980/EN-US/
Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
"No Disk in Drive" Message During Windows XP Setup
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823613
John