Windows hangs up almost immediately on install

[DJFlowe]

I hope someone can help me with this... I'm attempting to switch my
Fedora machine over to XP MCE, and my system hangs up immediately on
the install process.

I'm running a AMD Athlon 64 3000+, Biostar 6100 mobo and a WD 160gb
SATA hdd.

I've got a new, licensed copy of XP MCE 2005, and the boot gives me
the option to boot from CD. I select that, then choose the OS I want
to install. I get the message "Windows is inspecting attached
hardware...", then the screen goes blank and the hdd light stays on
for as long as I'll let it. I keep giving up after 10 mins or so,
simply for fear of damaging the drive.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking about throwing a
ATA-100 drive in the machine for now, and then putting the SATA drive
back in, as I'm guessing that the hang-up simply means that Windows
either isn't recognizing the drive properly, or doesn't like the fact
that I'm using the SATA channel as my only drive and don't have
anything on my EIDE connector.

I could really use the help, as I have no idea where to go from here.
Thanks, everyone.

 

[philo]

I hope someone can help me with this... I'm attempting to switch my
Fedora machine over to XP MCE, and my system hangs up immediately on
the install process.

I'm running a AMD Athlon 64 3000+, Biostar 6100 mobo and a WD 160gb
SATA hdd.

I've got a new, licensed copy of XP MCE 2005, and the boot gives me
the option to boot from CD. I select that, then choose the OS I want
to install. I get the message "Windows is inspecting attached
hardware...", then the screen goes blank and the hdd light stays on
for as long as I'll let it. I keep giving up after 10 mins or so,
simply for fear of damaging the drive.

When the installation begins you should see the option to install drivers by
pressing F6

at that point you should install your SATA drivers