Re: installing xp on a sata drive

If he's gotten to the point of formatting the drive and copying files it's not too likely that it's a driver problem, it's more likely either he has a bad CD drive, bad CD, or a problem with the RAM or hard disk itself, those are the common causes of file copy errors during setup.

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"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%231yx7qlVIHA.1184@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can you give us a clue as to why a Via RAID driver is being sought?
Do you have a RAID system? If not, perhaps the BIOS has accidentally
been set for RAID. Is there an entry for RAID/NoRAID in the BIOS?
If that has been set for RAID, the next question is how? Have you
tried cleaning or replacing the lithium battery?

*TimDaniels*

"domw54" wrote:
try every thing you said and made new driver disk still get the same message
Setup cannot copy the file viamraid.sys after the format screen is complete
and it is making a list of files to copy. this is the first file it looks
for.
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote:

Try this: When you get to the partition screen (i.e. when loading
from the floppy drive halts), take out the floppy disk. The system
will then look to the CD drive for data. And when you get the system
installed, the next time you start up, go into the BIOS and reset the
BIOS's device boot order so that the hard drive has highest priority
and the BIOS won't go reading a floppy disk or CD that you might have
left in the drive.

*TimDaniels*



"domw54" wrote:
>I am trying to install xp pro on a 160 gig sata drive. the mobo is a >MSI
> and during boot the drive is reconized. During xp set up I press F6 > and when
> prompted to I insert floppy disk, showes me the right drivers and I > select
> the on via for xp. It reads the disk and continues loading files. I > get the
> partition screen and partition the drive and it formats the drive just > fine.
> It then prompts me that it is making a list of files to be copied and > the
> first file it asked for is the viamraid.sys. It comes back and tells > me it
> can not copy the file and ask me if I am copying from the cd make sure > the
> windows xp cd is in the drive. I tell it to retry and It looks at the > floppy
> but it can not copy from the disk. I have moved the sys file to the > root of
> the disk but to no avail. What am I doing wrong. I have had the same
> problem on another machine also.
> -- > drw



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