Re: Western Digital SATA 120
From: peterk (peterk_at_nomalarky.net)
Date: 02/19/05
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:34:12 GMT
Mark
I have an ASUS mobo and a SATA drive as well as an IDE drive and 2 DVD
burners.
You need to enter your BIOS and set the proper boot order.......in my Asus
BIOS I picked CD as 1st boot and SCSI drive as 2nd boot.You also need to
check the manual that came with your mobo to see if you need to plug the
SATA into a specific SATA connector for it to boot.You did not mention the
model of Mobo you have so I am hitting you with all the variances that ASUS
has on their various mobo.Then you need to check the manual for jumpers to
activate the SATA.usually preset at the factory but who knows??The Sata
drivers are on the mobo CD you need to copy them to a floppy.
Once you have all of that done.Then reboot with the XP CD in place and watch
for the message "push any key to boot off CD"......do so and the XP setup
program should begin.
If not please do post back here....but check everything I have mentioned and
let us know.
peterk
"_MARK_" <markstonecipher@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:epbpHjiFFHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Unfortunately it never gets to that point. It boots from CD then
> immediately checks hardware config, and at that point the screen goes
> black and it stops..
>
> "R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
> news:ut4wFGhFFHA.2608@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Hi, Mark.
>>
>> No, the new drive need not be formatted before you begin; boot from the
>> WinXP CD-ROM and let it create at least one partition and format it. If
>> a partition already exists, you probably can use that, but I would delete
>> that partition and start clean.
>>
>>> The only two drives I have connected right now are a CD_Rom plus the
>>> WD120 SATA drive. I have set it to boot from the CD-Rom
>>
>> So far, so good.
>>
>>> when I try to install windows it says checking hardware configuration
>>> and then the screen goes black and nothing else happens.
>>
>> For how long? Minutes? Hours? It may just be very busy checking a lot
>> of hardware components.
>>
>> Since I don't have either ASUS or a SATA drive, I'm kind of flying blind
>> about your BIOS setup. Have you checked out the ASUS websites I
>> mentioned earlier? Did you get a manual with your motherboard or with
>> your SATA drive? Have you RTFM? :^}
>>
>> Typically, you need to boot from the CD-ROM. Setup is smart enough to
>> see the HD, partition and format it, and copy lots of files to it in the
>> text-based phase of the installation, including installation of the boot
>> device drivers, if required. Then Setup restarts the computer, which
>> should boot from the HD (not the CD); this time it boots into the
>> partially-installed WinXP for the first time and completes the GUI phase
>> of Setup. That's why the drivers for SATA (or whatever will be the boot
>> device) has to be installed before this reboot is attempted.
>>
>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> rc@corridor.net
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>>
>> "_MARK_" <markstonecipher@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:usgr$KgFFHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> Another glitch. The only two drives I have connected right now are a
>>> CD_Rom plus the WD120 SATA drive. I have set it to boot from the
>>> CD-Rom, but when I try to install windows it says checking hardware
>>> configuration and then the screen goes black and nothing else happens.
>>> Any ideas. Should the SATA drive be formatted. Any ideas...
>>>
>>>
>>> "_MARK_" <markstonecipher@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23V2OJgcFFHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>>I am installing a WD 1200 Sata drive. The machine already has 2 IDE
>>>>drives configured as master and slave. I configured the SATA as master
>>>>and the ASUS board recognizes the IDE drives as primary and secondary
>>>>boot devices. It recognizes the SATA as Primary drive 3. Using WD tools
>>>>I formatted the SATA drive and copied all the files from drive c to it.
>>>>Here's the problem. Booting in this config it boots to drive c. In the
>>>>Bios in the boot config section there is no option to boot from the SATA
>>>>drive. The only way to do this is to unplug the 2 IDE drives. It will
>>>>then put the SATA drive as Primary and boot and attempt to boot from it.
>>>>Yet after post and recognizing the drive it will just go to black screen
>>>>and nothing happens. If I plug the ide drives back in it will then boot
>>>>to C: Could someone provide a play by play on how to get this thing
>>>>booting from the SATA drive. I dont mind reinstalling everything just
>>>>need to get it going.
>>>>
>>>> PS. When booting to windows from the IDE drives, Windows see's the SATA
>>>> drive as a removable device and puts a little icon down in the toolbar.
>>
>
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