The other way - I can boot to XP which is currently installed in disk 0. I am trying to install XP on disk 1. My current setup see both drives properly. The XP install CD does not see the hard drives, when it is booting. It tries to install than says "no hard drives detected on your system. After doing research, I found out XP has no SATA drivers (until SP2) so that is why you do the F6 and put drivers on the floppy. For some reason this still did not work.
thanks
Fred
Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomInTheTrunk
its not drivers, at least not from the sounds of it.
So you are saying that it only works with the install cd in but when you take the cd out nothing happens, right? If this is the case then you need to set up your boot priority in the BIOS. In the BIOS you need to set the hard drive with the OS to boot. by default it is set to CD boot so you can load a OS but you need to change that to run the OS off the hard drive.
Secondly you set whats the master and slave in the BIOS now, not with jumpers.
So if you have installed the OS but it just wont run without the CD in then change your Boot priority in the BIOS and then problem solved.
|