Thread: Can XP Pro be installed on a SATA drive?
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Old March 20th 11, 01:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Can XP Pro be installed on a SATA drive?
On 3/19/2011 11:18 PM, Doc wrote:
I got a 320 gig SATA WD Caviar drive to install XP Pro on a Core2 Duo
machine. I get as far as the last stage or so of the install and got a
blue screen "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut
down to prevent damage to your computer" If this is the first time
you've seen this yada yada yada - then Stop 0x00000024 (0x001902FA,
0xF76A6300, 0xF76A6000, 0x805380B2)

I saw a mention somewhere that XP doesn't support SATA. Not sure how
that can be if I've been running this machine with auxilliary SATA
drives installed on it. Why would it let me get this far in the
installation process? Of course I don't know for sure what the root
cause of the problem was to begin with. I decided to try a different
drive since I seened to have ongoing issues ever since installing that
other IDE drive and the drive was on sale under $50 for 320 gigs.

Thanks for all input

Yes, it is true. Windows XP doesn't come with any SATA drivers and you
must (if you need them) install them in the very beginning of the
install by pressing F6 to install RAID, SATA, or any other device
driver(s) to work with Windows XP. And this is usually done by having
the driver(s) on a floppy disk. Yes an USB floppy drive will work too.

If you are using a recovery disc to install XP and not a MS one, odds
are good that it includes the driver that you need. So you don't have to
worry about it. Another thing one can do without the driver on some BIOS
is toggle a setting for the drive. It will read and write a tad slower,
but you can get by without a driver.

Having said all of this, I don't believe this is your problem. As if it
was, the install couldn't see the SATA drive in the first place to start
the install.

Now that STOP 0x24 error is the key to your whole problem. Basically it
means your file system is corrupt. So now what? Well here is pretty good
advice and it is a good start. And good luck!

http://www.geekswhoknow.com/articles...error-code.htm

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Bill
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Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3
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