Setup Problems with XP Pro

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From: Jason Hudson (Hudson_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:49:02 -0700

I have a desktop that I built and had it running smoothly. Then, one day, I
did the stupidest thing possible. I messed with the settings. In an attempt
to make the RAID setup work, I initially set my hard drives up in a RAID 1
setup. I realized that this is not what I wanted, deleted the RAID set and
made a RAID 0. That is when my problems started.

Anyways, to make a long story short, I reformatted everything and I'm trying
to reload Windows XP Pro. Before I ever started though, I set up my RAID 0
set to make "one" hard drive of 70 GB. Now, the computer goes through POST
and all of that, gets to the "Verify DMI...." and says "Boot from CD.." twice
and then "Press any key to boot from CD-ROM....". I go into the Windows
setup, hit F6 to load my third party drivers for my hard drives, it
recognizes them, I reformat them as NTFS and it leaves 8MB unpartitioned (I'm
assuming for the 8 MB buffer that these hard drives have) and the rest is
partioned. I click on this "one" hard drive to install Windows XP Pro to, it
goes through the scan disk, copies the files and goes to the reboot part. My
computer reboots, however, this whole process starts over again. It never
takes me to the Windows Welcome screen to continue the setup. I did make
sure that my boot priorities were changed to have the HDD's first, then
CD-ROM then Floppy.

Anyone have any suggestions? 

-- 
Jason Hudson

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