Re: Installing win xp prop ATAPI INCOMPATIBLE

Usually this occurs when

1) IDE cable is bad
2) Hard drive is not set up as "Master" drive on IDE 0 channel.
3) Some other drive is on the same IDE cable as the hard drive.


On 30/11/2005 "bing" <bing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi!
>I am on the process of intalling OS of win xp prof. Upon booting my system a
>got the message "Pri Master Drive - ATAPI INCOMPATIBLE Press F1 to Resume.
>When Press F1 it look alright and doing set up the win xp but after
>compying all files it well shutdown and going back to boot again and back to
>the same screen. This hard drive is 15GB. Is something wrong with this hard
>Drive? Please..help

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