XP Setup problems w/ SATA harddrive, CD-RW

From: sirchess (sirchess_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:13:02 -0800

Hello,

I am building my own system and am having problems installing Windows XP on
it. Here are the relevant system specs:

Motherboard: MSI K8T Neo2 FIR
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda SATA 80GB (ST380013AS)
CD-RW/DVD: MSI XA52P (MS-8452T)

Both the CD-RW and hard drive are Serial ATA. When I boot from the CD drive
and run the setup program I press F6 to load the necessary SATA drivers, and
everything runs just fine, until after the system restarts. When this
happens one of two problems occur:

1) If I just let the system reboot by itself it boots off the CD again and
load the drivers again, the setup program starts from the beginning - i.e.,
only gives options for doing a clean install or a recovery.
2) If I remove the CD to let it boot from the hard drive (which is what I
suspect is supposed to happen), I get the following error:

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration
problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware.
Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and
your hardware reference manuals for additional information."

What is going on here? How can I get XP to finish the installation?

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