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!
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!