Re: Win XP Prof installation Question
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:18:55 -0700
Alt-Del wrote:
Hope someone can help.
Installing XP prof. on a new SATA Hitachi 250GIG is proving to be
impossible!!
It may be that WinXP doesn't include drivers to support your specific SATA controller. Try this:
Very early in the boot process, just after having booted from the WinXP CD, the screen will display the words to the effect: "Setup is examining your system." Press <F6> when this happens, and have the *manufacturer's* WinXP-specific drivers for your SATA controller available on a floppy disk.
During installation, I get error messages that Setup cannot copy the
file cmprops.dl_, many other files. Now I know these files are on the
cd i386 directory but the setup simply refuses to see them.
Problems copying files or corrupted files during installation are most often caused by defective, incompatible, or sub-standard hardware; in order of likelihood, either RAM, the hard drive, or the motherboard. On very rare occasions the CD drive or installation CD is the problem.
Start with testing the RAM. You might try MemTest86: http://www.memtest86.com/ It's free. Then you can download and use the hard drive maufacturer's diagnostic utility to test the hard drive. If both RAM and hard drive test out clean, check with the motherboard manufacturer for any diagnostic utilities.
Googling shows a lot of people have had this problem and as ususal
with windows, the people that have managed to resolve it report many
different solutions!
One solution is that there could be a problem with the HD master boot
record. I suspect that this might be my problem. When I run the
setup,
the total disk space shown is 238473MB. Is this the correct value for
a 250gig drive? If not how can I delete the hidden partition?
That's the correct value (and even if it weren't, it wouldn't indicate a problem with the MBR.) WinXP, like other operating systems, measures kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes as:
1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes
However, a common marketing ploy used by hard drive manufacturers to make their products seem a bit larger than they really are is to assign the value of an even 1,000,000,000 bytes to the gigabyte.
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