Re: Total Confusion--Please help!

From: mike (mike_at_msa.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:19:55 -0500

Enable usb keyboard in the bios. You haven't put anything on your cd yet so
there is no file system. If you aren't using serial ata disable it in bios
and don't install the drivers . Cable select is fine if your using an 80
conductor ide cable and anything but a western digital hard drive. The udma
ide cables have the end marked disk 0 and disk 1 in the center , or vice
versa depending on who made it.It's easier to have xp on the c: drive.
Format the rest of the partitions at your leisure. If your going to boot xp
setup from cd you need cd to be 1st boot device. Set your wd hard drive to
master/no slave only if it is the only hard drive. Make sure in bios that
udmais enabled for both ide channels and the same in device manager.

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