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Emmerich · #16 03-26-2009, 09:00 AM

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

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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.

DrJ · #17 03-26-2009, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Emmerich

The other way - I can boot to XP which is currently installed in disk 0. I am trying to install XP on disk 1.

Why not mirror the drive? Every drive manufacturer has a simple program to do that. So, install it, and copy the old drive to the new one.

Emmerich · #18 03-26-2009, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DrJ

Why not mirror the drive? Every drive manufacturer has a simple program to do that. So, install it, and copy the old drive to the new one.

The current OS is corrupted, I have it stripped down to e-mail and Thunderbird. My goal is to get a fresh install of XP onto a new drive, or the the current drive, since they are both identical. I have kept the current setup because I can still get on the internet when I am at home.

DrJ · #19 03-26-2009, 06:42 PM

Hmm.

You might try formatting the new one. If it is formatted incorrectly, Windows will not pick it up. Usually the factory NTFS formats are good, but not always. Now why you would see it on the old system and not alone, I don't know.

Also, you might try mirroring to the new drive just to see if the Windows installer picks it up when it is alone. If it does, you can just install over what is there. You have a backup, so if it does not work, no big deal.

Emmerich · #20 03-26-2009, 11:39 PM

Got it going after finally tracking down the RIGHT drivers. The drive manufacturer had the wrong ones. I was lucky I have a real floppy drive (not a USB floppy) so installation was easy.

Thanks for everybodys help!