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Hello everyone,
Its been a very painfull week trying to install Windows XP Home Edition to
this computer.
The problem am having is the following:
trying to do a fresh install of Win XP Home into this new hard drive
Samsung 160 gig S-ATA-II ( set by jumpers to 150 transfer rate ) on an ASUS
AV8 motherboard with AThlon 64 X2 4400+ and 2 gig of DDR.
The issue is that Windows XP loads the needed files, and after it comes to
the screen were to choose the partition / hard drive were to install, it says
that there are no storage media were to install and that the setup process
will be terminated... press F3 to exit.
I have tried every possible way, pressing F6 to provide Windows with the
ASUS SATA drivers from a floppy disk. Nothing.
Have try formatting the disk with FAT32, nothing. And many more
combinations but it would cover to much space.
The last thing I have tried was to boot from a Win 98 start up disk and
setup Windows ME.
Funny thing is, Windows ME setup finds and recognizes the hard disk and
partition in it, goes thru the install process only to go into a reboot loop
after the Windows ME setup reboots and the splash screen pops up. But at
least it does "see" the S-ATA hard drive. Windows XP won't.
The only way I have found that I can install Windows XP is if I set it up in
an old 10 gig P-ATA EIDE-33 hard drive and use the new 160 gig as additional
storage.
I have also tried using Copy Commander to transfer/ copy the partition from
the P-ATA to the 160 S-ATA. Shot down, disconnect the P-ATA disk. Turn power
on. It will boot, do a scandisk where it would tell me its checking drive E:
not C:, and after it finish, it will go to a Windows XP welcome-like screen
and display the Windows XP logo just to sit there doing nothing more. Mouse
will move, but nothing else will happen.
Is there any solution to this problem??? I want to set up Windows XP in
as well as use the S-ATA as my boot C:> drive. But Windows XP goes blind to
the SATA hard drive.
Have also tried starting the computer with 2 S-ATA disk but it won't see
either of the disk. I don't want to use the RAID options, I just want the
JBOD ( just a bunch of disk ) style.
Please anyone, shread some light into this baffling mystery ??? Any
solutions?
I have also contacted ASUS and am awaiting a response.
Thank you all in advance.
Has anyone sucessfully installed Windows XP in a SATA disk and used it as
the main C:\> disk??? What did you do??
Oh, and yes, I have check and rechecked all of the BIOS settings. I have
even disabled all but the CD-ROM IDE channel ( even set it up as slave.)
Nothing.
I did it before in a Soyo K7-600 Dragon Plus 2nd edition. Its not a board
problem, or else Windows 98 would have not recognized the disk at start up.
Need help before I apply the scientific way to my computer... a 50 pound
slash hammer!
Its been a very painfull week trying to install Windows XP Home Edition to
this computer.
The problem am having is the following:
trying to do a fresh install of Win XP Home into this new hard drive
Samsung 160 gig S-ATA-II ( set by jumpers to 150 transfer rate ) on an ASUS
AV8 motherboard with AThlon 64 X2 4400+ and 2 gig of DDR.
The issue is that Windows XP loads the needed files, and after it comes to
the screen were to choose the partition / hard drive were to install, it says
that there are no storage media were to install and that the setup process
will be terminated... press F3 to exit.
I have tried every possible way, pressing F6 to provide Windows with the
ASUS SATA drivers from a floppy disk. Nothing.
Have try formatting the disk with FAT32, nothing. And many more
combinations but it would cover to much space.
The last thing I have tried was to boot from a Win 98 start up disk and
setup Windows ME.
Funny thing is, Windows ME setup finds and recognizes the hard disk and
partition in it, goes thru the install process only to go into a reboot loop
after the Windows ME setup reboots and the splash screen pops up. But at
least it does "see" the S-ATA hard drive. Windows XP won't.
The only way I have found that I can install Windows XP is if I set it up in
an old 10 gig P-ATA EIDE-33 hard drive and use the new 160 gig as additional
storage.
I have also tried using Copy Commander to transfer/ copy the partition from
the P-ATA to the 160 S-ATA. Shot down, disconnect the P-ATA disk. Turn power
on. It will boot, do a scandisk where it would tell me its checking drive E:
not C:, and after it finish, it will go to a Windows XP welcome-like screen
and display the Windows XP logo just to sit there doing nothing more. Mouse
will move, but nothing else will happen.
Is there any solution to this problem??? I want to set up Windows XP in
as well as use the S-ATA as my boot C:> drive. But Windows XP goes blind to
the SATA hard drive.
Have also tried starting the computer with 2 S-ATA disk but it won't see
either of the disk. I don't want to use the RAID options, I just want the
JBOD ( just a bunch of disk ) style.
Please anyone, shread some light into this baffling mystery ??? Any
solutions?
I have also contacted ASUS and am awaiting a response.
Thank you all in advance.
Has anyone sucessfully installed Windows XP in a SATA disk and used it as
the main C:\> disk??? What did you do??
Oh, and yes, I have check and rechecked all of the BIOS settings. I have
even disabled all but the CD-ROM IDE channel ( even set it up as slave.)
Nothing.
I did it before in a Soyo K7-600 Dragon Plus 2nd edition. Its not a board
problem, or else Windows 98 would have not recognized the disk at start up.
Need help before I apply the scientific way to my computer... a 50 pound
slash hammer!