Problems installing XP on new build

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dkh

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Specs for new build:

ASUS A8N-SLI
3800+ X2 AMD
XP Home OEM (newegg)
WD SATA 3Gb/sec 250GB 16M Cache
Antec Smartpower 2.0 500W
2X NEC DVD/CD RW

I also have two HDDs from my old PC which I am installing for extra capacity:
WD 40GB IDE
Maxtor 250GB IDE

I'm attempting to install XP on the new SATA WD HDD. Partitioned it first using WinSetup. Got through entering the product key the first time and it gave me the "Boot drive failure, insert system disk". I remembered I had to do the whole press F6 to install SATA driver thing. Made SATA driver floppy disk using provided ASUS CD. Started WinSetup again, erased first install, installed SATA driver (it was called Soft RAID, not SATA, but it seemed like the only choice as all the others were nVRAID drivers or for 64-bit OS). Sailed through Setup, entered product key, and XP loaded and was working. It asked me the initial setup questions, I played around a bit with the screen resolution, checked MyComputer to see if everything I installed was showing. I then popped in the ASUS CD to install the nVidia chipset drivers. When that finished it prompted me to re-start. Then I got the "Boot drive failure, insert system disk"... and that's all I continue to get.

Please help!
 
as a note, you shouldn't have to use the floppy disk for your sata drive. You should only need them if you are planning on running your drive with RAID, if its just sata you should be fine without any floppy.


This is what i am thinking may be wrong, it may be booting off of one of your other harddrives. Go into your Bios, and first make sure your first boot devide is your harddrive, then second go into hardrive boot priotiy, and make sure that the one that your OS is installed on is first. I have a feeling it might be trying to boot off of another ahrddrive first. just my guess.
 
Also, unless you installed a 64 bit version of windows XP, then you shouldn't have installed those 64 bit drivers.
 
Arm_Pit2 said:
as a note, you shouldn't have to use the floppy disk for your sata drive. You should only need them if you are planning on running your drive with RAID, if its just sata you should be fine without any floppy.


This is what i am thinking may be wrong, it may be booting off of one of your other harddrives. Go into your Bios, and first make sure your first boot devide is your harddrive, then second go into hardrive boot priotiy, and make sure that the one that your OS is installed on is first. I have a feeling it might be trying to boot off of another ahrddrive first. just my guess.
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The OS hard dirve is set at top of list under hard drives. I've checked this already. It's set to boot off this HDD first.
 
Arm_Pit2 said:
Also, unless you installed a 64 bit version of windows XP, then you shouldn't have installed those 64 bit drivers.
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I didn't install any 64bit drivers.
 
When I boot from the ASUS CD, these are the choices I am given:

1. Make Sil3114 32bit Sata/Raid Driver disk
2. Make Sil3114 64bit Sata/Raid Driver disk
3. Make Nvidia 2000 RAID Driver disk
4. Make Nvidia XP RAID Driver disk
5. Make Nvidia 2003 RAID Driver disk
6. Make Nvidia 64bit XP RAID Driver disk
7. Make Nvidia 64bit 2003 RAID Driver disk
8. Format Floppy disk
9. FreeDOS command prompt

I am using 32bit WinXP and don't want to set up a RAID configuration. When I installed the XP using the Sata driver floppy the first time, I formatted with choice number 8, and then copied choice number 1 above to the disk. Did I need to copy any of the other choices above?

More help is needed, please.
 
Damn this is getting frustrating! @#$%!!! Now it keeps wanting to install XP in the same place over and over. I made the RAID and SATA driver disks, attempted to install, it went through the copying of XP files, restarted, and Setup wants to copy files again, rather than installing the files it already copied. WTF!!! I'm in desperate need of help here, guys. Please!
 
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