sata install xp.

[rahulpatel]

The tips of my fingers now have blisters from googling the answers. However, I have sorted 90% of what's going on. Just need that final 10% to get XP installed on the sata drive.

I installed a floppy drive just for the purpose of installing XP on a new sata drive. I copied the drivers to the floppy. I've created a slipstreamed XP install inc SP2. At the F6 prompt I tell it to load extra drivers. It gets to the point where you press 'S'. It detects the drivers and seems to load them fine. It continues loading files etc. But then it asks for the drivers again saying it can't detect them and if I elect to skip finding the drivers windows may not work properly. Obviously it can't detect the drivers and I have to skip. It then allows me to load XP onto the sata hdds. Great. The system reboots and I get the Windows XP black screen with those funny bars scrolling. Then...wham...BSOD.

I suspect that it hasn't loaded the drivers and so can't boot properly from the sata drive.

Anyone have any ideas why it can't see the drivers on the second screen when it did after I pressed F6? Different floppies make no difference.

(I'm going to try and remove all extra cards and give it another go.)

 

[linney]

Have you put all the drivers that it requires on the Floppy?

Do any require to be unzipped before loading on to the floppy?

Error Message:Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your system

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic18329.html

How Do I Install Windows XP On A SATA Hard Drive

http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_a.htm

 

[rahulpatel]

I assumed I had put all the drivers it required on a floppy. It sees them once but not for the second time it wants them.

I've made it work to a point. I slipstreamed them into my boot disc. I've loaded windows but a few times I've had the BSOD and a couple of times if I restart windows I get the 'ntldr is missing' message. Nothing is ever simple is it...

 

[linney]

These threads talk about some of the Setup logs you can refer to, and also some more Bios settings you can check.

BSOD on rollback
thread779-1335910

sata problems with clean install of windows xp
thread779-1264566

Limited OEM driver support is available with F6 during Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 setup

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314859#appliesto

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=0x0000007b

Ntldr Missing.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

 

[cdogg]

rahulpatel,
Were you ever able to get inside of Windows, or do you constantly get the BSOD or "NTLDR is missing" when booting?

What's the make/model of the SATA drive?

Did you use a 3rd-party utility to slipstream the updates/drivers into the XP disc? If so, which one?

~cdogg
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
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[rahulpatel]

cdogg,

I didn't make it into windows. Just as it would boot (the black screen with the windows logo and scrolling bar along the bottom.) The scroll bar would go twice across and then BSOD. I think what was happening is I had tried twice to load windows so there were now 3 windows folders on the c drive. I formatted the drive the next time I loaded windows to get rid of them. (I had a good copy of XP on another drive to get into windows to check a few things.) It went OK and I booted into windows but then when I shut down and restarted that's when I got the ntldr message. All I did then was boot into the other drive and copy the ntldr, ntdetect and the boot.ini across onto the sata drive. Hey presto, it all worked. Still won't fully use the drives until I know no BSOD.

SATA drives are both 320GB, 16MB cache Western Digitals. Using a VIA sata PCI controller.

Slipstreamed with Nlite and the very latest drivers from the VIA site.

I feel the BSOD was caused by windows not finding the sata drivers. Although it read them from the floppy it didn't put them into the final 'set up'.

 

[cdogg]

Hey presto, it all worked. Still won't fully use the drives until I know no BSOD.

OK, so at first you couldn't get it to work, but it seems to be OK for the most part now I take it. In order for you to ensure you have all the necessary drivers installed, go out to the motherboard manufacturer's website or the PC vendor's website (depending on whether the PC is custom built or retail). There should be drivers for the chipset you can download and install to make sure the SATA controller has what it needs for optimum performance.

~cdogg
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
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