Re: Setup does not recognize SATA harddrive

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I tried to boot from my DVD burner in which I put the XP cd. But I think the
cd is not bootable.

"rajkohli" <rajkohli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Don't you have a Windows XP Bootable CD? If yes, then boot from that CD
instead of Windows 98. If not then you are doing the right thing. But the
problem is Windows XP setup needs to extract the files to your hard disk
drive for setup to continue. As you said that you have installed a new
SATA
disk drive. So your hdd has no partition. This is what the error is about.

If you want to install Windows XP from a non-xp bootable cd. Then you must
prepare your hard disk for xp setup. For this you need to Partition your
disk. In Windows 98 bootable CD, there is already a utility called Fdisk.
But
if your hard disk is larger than 40GB then you need a improved version of
Fdisk from Microsoft.com.

The best thing you can do is: put your hard disk in some another PC, which
already have Windows XP and partition your hard disk and make them
readable.
After that try what you were trying before.

Let us know, if this information is useful to you.

"Man Utd" wrote:

I just build a new system AMD 3200+, with Maxtor 250GB SATA II.
I boot my system with Windows98 boot disc, then put the XP CD into DVD
drive
to run setup.
However, the setup said XP needs a harddrive has capacity of at least
477
MB, my only option is to press ENTER to exit.

Any idea?





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