Re: K8N and Seagate Sata Drive

Tried with both xp home and pro both with service pack 2. No luck. I have a
160 Gig IDE drive that I was going to put on for storage with the Sata 320
but I might put the IDE as my boot drive now to try and solve the problem.

"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fbqr0d$hvk$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
JKBK wrote:
Just got my motherboard back from RMA and picked up a seagate 320 Gig HD
to reinstall XP and I`m having major problems. Mainly, the drive is
recognized by the MB, both in the bios and on the boot up splash screen
but hangs on installing XP when Windows tries to go to the setup/install
phase.I`ve tried using the drivers provided on the nforce 3 MB disk but
with the same result.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Jeff

Are you using a WinXP SP1 or SP2 install CD ? Or is your WinXP so old that
it has no Service Pack integrated ?

If you have an old WinXP disk, you should slipstream in at least the SP1
service pack, or preferably the SP2 service pack. As far as I know, MS
is only supporting SP2 now, which is why you'd want to be using it. When
I did this with my Win2K install disk eons ago, I think I used
Autostreamer.
You'll need a CD burner, to burn the resulting ISO9660 file created by
the slipstreaming process, to a new blank CD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_%28computing%29

The purpose of SP1 or SP2, is to handle large disks, or to access any
additional native disk drivers from Microsoft. You also get a USB2 driver,
which is handy.

Paul


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