XP setup cannot see hard drives?

[Gary]

I want a dual boot system, consisting of Win98 and XP. W98 is already
installed, I've tried to install XP onto another partition, but it cannot
progress during setup, as it cannot see the hard drives which are using the
HPT IDE connectors on my KR7A board.

I've copied the relevant XP drivers from CD ROM to floppy as requested, but
XP expects to see a text file on there which doesn't exist.

Meantime, annoyingly I'm getting an OS boot option at start (defaults to XP
setup), how do I go about removing this until I can figure out the driver
problem?

Any help appreciated.

Regard
Gary

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

XP setup is looking for very specific files on the driver floppy. Go to the
web site of the manufacturer of the HPT IDE board and look around in their
download/help section.

 

[Ogre]

In the meantime just delete the boot.ini file

Ogre

 

[TomG]

you need to use the Highpoint drivers and hit F6 to load the drivers during
the prompt that you will see at the bottom of the screen early in the XP
install.

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[BoroLad]

I want a dual boot system, consisting of Win98 and XP. W98 is already
installed, I've tried to install XP onto another partition, but it cannot
progress during setup, as it cannot see the hard drives which are using the
HPT IDE connectors on my KR7A board.

I've copied the relevant XP drivers from CD ROM to floppy as requested, but
XP expects to see a text file on there which doesn't exist.

TXTSETUP.OEM for ?? is what it's looking for!

The flop should have:

-6 sub directories
-TXTSETUP.OEM

Meantime, annoyingly I'm getting an OS boot option at start (defaults to XP
setup), how do I go about removing this until I can figure out the driver
problem?

Any help appreciated.

Regard
Gary

BoroLad

 

[Gary]

In the meantime just delete the boot.ini file

I renamed it just in case....and was left in a loop (it still went into XP
setup), had to use a boot disk to get out of it. Obviously requires more
than removing that file.

 

[Gary]

TXTSETUP.OEM for ?? is what it's looking for!

Okay, an OEM file then...my memory isn't too good ;-)

The flop should have:

-6 sub directories
-TXTSETUP.OEM

Thanks...but where do I obtain these?

 

[Gary]

Okay, an OEM file then...my memory isn't too good ;-)

Thanks...but where do I obtain these?

Or to clarify, the Highpoint XP driver download file does not contain 6
sub-directories?

 

[TomG]

from the driver download.

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[Gary]

from the driver download.

Thanks Tom, was confused by Borolad's description...

 

[TomG]

good luck...

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Network+ certified

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