Re: XP Pro OEM installs, Academic Upgrade doesn't

Someone at Western Digital told me that indeed Gigabyte had given me bum info
-- I am only supposed to load the 2nd of the two drivers on the floppy disk,
the one called NVidia Storage Contoller. He says I am NOT supposed to load
the NVidia RAID driver if I have one disk. So I will try that in a couple
hours.

OTOH, he also says that you can't use an "upgrade" version of Windows XP to
load it onto an empty disk. Can you verify whether that is true or not? At
the beginning of the installation, it asks me to put the install disk from a
qualifying prior version of Windows into a CD drive. I do that (it's a
Windows 2000 Pro Upgrade CD) and it then continues the installation. IIRC,
to load Windows 2000, I had already formatted my HD, so the Win2K upgrade
actually asked me to load not only a Win98 CD into the CDROM drive, but also
a WIN95 CD! Has this policy changed, so that I will need to actually
*install* Windows 2000 onto the Western Digital disk before it will install
Windows XP PRO?

"peterk" wrote:

> My thinking was that maybe you used the wrong drivers for the SATA
> connectors but there is also the possibility that only certain connectors
> are bootable.
> Only your manual will tell you for sure
> peterk
>
> --
> It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about
> the problem
> "Petz" <jpetzing@earthlink.(PUTnetHERE)> wrote in message
> news:7B985DDD-E19E-4165-8D50-BE5EE5699EF4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > BTW, I thought maybe I could "upgrade" the XP Pro SP1 installation using
> > the
> > Academic Edition XP Pro SP2 Upgrade version disk. I ran the upgrade from
> > within XP and it loaded a few files and then rebooted. There was a choice
> > of
> > 2 OS's and I picked the "upgrade" choice. At some point I entered the
> > Product
> > Key of the Upgrade version that I eventually want to "activate." So, it
> > looked good. Unfortunately, it eventually got around to copying files to
> > the
> > disk from the CD and AGAIN DIED when it tried to copy IEXPLORE.EX_.
> >
> > BTW, relative to your question about the number of SATA connectors, I
> > noticed that Asus equivalent motherboard, only allows the first two of
> > each
> > of the SATA connectors to be connected to boot disks. Maybe there is some
> > limit of number of potential boot disks?
> >
> > "Petz" wrote:
> >
> >> Actually, it has *eight* SATA connectors, 4 for each. I have the WD drive
> >> hooked up to the first of the 4 NVidia ones, though this connector is
> >> actually in the 3rd position, looking at them from the front of the case.
> >>
> >> "peterk" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is that the board that has 4 SATA connectors??
> >> > 2 of them with Nvidea drivers and the other 2 with Silicon Image
> >> > drivers
> >> > ???????????????????????????????
> >> > peterk
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much
> >> > about
> >> > the problem
> >> > "Petz" <jpetzing@earthlink.(PUTnetHERE)> wrote in message
> >> > news:5DF537CF-7FD3-4887-B013-AD177DE0C8A9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > > What's going on here. I find it impossible to install Windows XP SP2
> >> > > using
> >> > > my
> >> > > XP Pro Academic Upgrage CD (and putting Win2000 CD in drive at
> >> > > appropriate
> >> > > point). I am installing onto SATA drive (WD2500) connected to
> >> > > Gigabyte
> >> > > K8NuSLI motherboard, specifiically onto the SATA ports connected to
> >> > > nForce4
> >> > > chipset. If I use F6 to load drivers for the nForce4 SATA RAID
> >> > > drivers (2
> >> > > on
> >> > > floppy), the install freezes right after the message "Setup is
> >> > > starting
> >> > > Windows." This is the installation method Gigabyte told me to use.
> >> > > However, I
> >> > > found that if I just didn't install use F6 at all, then the
> >> > > installation
> >> > > goes
> >> > > much further. It gets to the first reboot, has me set up the clock,
> >> > > enter
> >> > > my
> >> > > product key, and set up network. Then it says something about Startup
> >> > > Menu,
> >> > > and dies with
> >> > > Error copying file iexplore.ex_
> >> > > It has a window to browse for the file, and the file is actually
> >> > > right on
> >> > > the CD (I386) where it is looking for it! It just can't copy it, or
> >> > > its
> >> > > the
> >> > > wrong version or something. I even tried preparing a floppy with that
> >> > > file,
> >> > > but it refused to accept it. If I say to continue install anyway,
> >> > > theres a
> >> > > gazillion other files that it can't find (though they are on the CD!)
> >> > > or
> >> > > won't copy. Note that the XP CD is an SP2 version.
> >> > >
> >> > > OK, now here's the really wierd part. I also have an older OEM XP Pro
> >> > > (non-upgrade) CD, but I won't be able to activate it because it is
> >> > > from
> >> > > another computer. So I tried using that CD to install to my SATA
> >> > > drive. If
> >> > > I
> >> > > load the drivers for SATA, the same thing happens, it dies after
> >> > > saying
> >> > > "Setup is starting Windows." But if I DON'T load the drivers, the
> >> > > installation proceeds successfully.
> >> > >
> >> > > I conclude two things, but have no solution to my problem because I
> >> > > don't
> >> > > feel like chucking a $109 CD and buying a $139 one. What I conclude
> >> > > is:
> >> > > 1a. The nForce4 hardware or drivers, or my motherboard is
> >> > > incompatible
> >> > > with
> >> > > upgrade versions of Windows XP or
> >> > > 1b. ditto for Windows XP SP2 or
> >> > > 1c. The "academic upgrade" version sucks
> >> > > AND
> >> > > 2. Gigabyte tech support is clueless. They don't even know how to
> >> > > install
> >> > > XP
> >> > > onto their own motherboards.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
>
>
>
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