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Hylian · 08-23-2005, 05:07 PM

I have a 160GB Western Digital Hard Drive, and I have a Windows XP Home CD (no service packs are on the CD).

My harddrive is only recognized by my BIOS as 32MB, so I have to use WD Dynamic Drive Overlay to make it read as 137GB (since I don't have SP1, no 48bit LBA or whatever support).

The thing is, whe I try to boot from a CD using their software, I get the blue dialog box asking for me to press spacebar if I want to boot from a floppy, or "C" if i want to boot from a CD.

The thing is, when I try to boot from a CD (any bootable CD), it doesn't, and attempts to boot from the harddrive, and I get the Ntdlr (or something) error message, since I don't have an OS installed.

So get around this, I've been using those 6 floppies to assist with the install, because I cannot simply boot the computer from the CD, as if I do so, it's still recognized as 32MB (DDO HAS to be loaded first).

Yet what I'm wondering, is this a known issue, and is there a fix for it?

08-23-2005, 05:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
Hylian Bronze Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 89	Western Digital DDO - Try to boot From CD, yet won't I have a 160GB Western Digital Hard Drive, and I have a Windows XP Home CD (no service packs are on the CD). My harddrive is only recognized by my BIOS as 32MB, so I have to use WD Dynamic Drive Overlay to make it read as 137GB (since I don't have SP1, no 48bit LBA or whatever support). The thing is, whe I try to boot from a CD using their software, I get the blue dialog box asking for me to press spacebar if I want to boot from a floppy, or "C" if i want to boot from a CD. The thing is, when I try to boot from a CD (any bootable CD), it doesn't, and attempts to boot from the harddrive, and I get the Ntdlr (or something) error message, since I don't have an OS installed. So get around this, I've been using those 6 floppies to assist with the install, because I cannot simply boot the computer from the CD, as if I do so, it's still recognized as 32MB (DDO HAS to be loaded first). Yet what I'm wondering, is this a known issue, and is there a fix for it? __________________ X-Blade ATX Window Case - Enermax Liberty 620W Power Supply Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - ASUS P5n32-SLI SE Deluxe OCZ 2GB 800MHz RAM 80GB Seagate SATA - 320GB Seagate SATA BFG GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB PCI-E - LG L204WT 20.1" Widescreen Flatron LCD Sound Blaster Audigy 2 - Altec Lansing 5.1 Surround Sound Windows XP Pro - SP2