XP wont Recognize Western Digital.

[Raymond]

I just purchased a new western digital SE 60 gig with 8 mb
cache. I'm trying to install windows XP Professional.

I fomatted the entire drive to a single NTFS Partition
using partition magic. I have the latest BIOS ofr my
motherbaord (Asus A7M266) and the drive is the primary
master, and IS detected in POST.

When I put the XP cd in the drive, the cd boots, and
promts me with "Setup is inspecting your computer's
hardware configuration" -- It freezes at that point.

When I try using a boot disk, and navigating to the I386
folder, and running winnt.exe, I am prompted with a blue
setup screen which says. "An internal Setup error has
occurred. Could not find a place for a swap file. Detp
cannot continue. Press Enter to exit."

I check the microsfot HCL, and the western Digital SE 60
gig 8mb cache, is not listed. Could this have something to
do with my problem?

How do I go about getting XP to install properly?

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Raymond,

Remove the partition created by PM, boot the WinXP CD, let it create the
partition and format as part of setup. See if this helps.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Raymond" > wrote in message
...
> I just purchased a new western digital SE 60 gig with 8 mb
> cache. I'm trying to install windows XP Professional.
>
> I fomatted the entire drive to a single NTFS Partition
> using partition magic. I have the latest BIOS ofr my
> motherbaord (Asus A7M266) and the drive is the primary
> master, and IS detected in POST.
>
> When I put the XP cd in the drive, the cd boots, and
> promts me with "Setup is inspecting your computer's
> hardware configuration" -- It freezes at that point.
>
> When I try using a boot disk, and navigating to the I386
> folder, and running winnt.exe, I am prompted with a blue
> setup screen which says. "An internal Setup error has
> occurred. Could not find a place for a swap file. Detp
> cannot continue. Press Enter to exit."
>
> I check the microsfot HCL, and the western Digital SE 60
> gig 8mb cache, is not listed. Could this have something to
> do with my problem?
>
> How do I go about getting XP to install properly?
>
>