paul
December 5th 03, 01:27 AM
Re WD drive. Western Digital is the only drive I'm
familiar with that requires the jumper to be either
removed or set as single in order to be recognized if
used as the only hard drive. Setting jumper as master
without a slave doesn't work.
>-----Original 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?
>
>
>.
>
familiar with that requires the jumper to be either
removed or set as single in order to be recognized if
used as the only hard drive. Setting jumper as master
without a slave doesn't work.
>-----Original 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?
>
>
>.
>