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Old December 11th 08, 05:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default Trouble installing XP Pro

I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems. I've disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted up fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It continues to copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I get the message, "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Of course doing this just makes the same thing happen. The disc is a 320 GB drive with a 45 gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS and clean.
I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and Windows 7 beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not working. The BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the drive doesn't work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot directly to it with no problems.
Any ideas and am I even making sense?
TIA

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Old December 11th 08, 06:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
JS
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Default Trouble installing XP Pro

During the install process there is a point where you can install drivers (Press F6).
Did you install the SATA drivers?

JS
http://www.pagestart.com

"Paul " wrote in message ...
I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems. I've disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted up fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It continues to copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I get the message, "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Of course doing this just makes the same thing happen. The disc is a 320 GB drive with a 45 gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS and clean.
I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and Windows 7 beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not working. The BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the drive doesn't work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot directly to it with no problems.
Any ideas and am I even making sense?
TIA

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Old December 11th 08, 06:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default Trouble installing XP Pro

No, did not but I've never had to before.....I'll give that a go and see if it works. I'll feel awfully stupid if that's the case.
thanks
"JS" @ wrote in message ...
During the install process there is a point where you can install drivers (Press F6).
Did you install the SATA drivers?

JS
http://www.pagestart.com

"Paul " wrote in message ...
I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems. I've disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted up fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It continues to copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I get the message, "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Of course doing this just makes the same thing happen. The disc is a 320 GB drive with a 45 gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS and clean.
I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and Windows 7 beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not working. The BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the drive doesn't work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot directly to it with no problems.
Any ideas and am I even making sense?
TIA

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Old December 11th 08, 08:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Anna
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Default Trouble installing XP Pro



"Paul " wrote in message
...
I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems. I've
disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted up
fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It continues to
copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I get the message, "A
disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Of course doing
this just makes the same thing happen. The disc is a 320 GB drive with a 45
gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS and clean.
I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and Windows 7
beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not working. The
BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the drive doesn't
work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot directly to it with
no problems.
Any ideas and am I even making sense?
TIA


"JS" @ wrote in message ...
During the install process there is a point where you can install drivers
(Press F6).
Did you install the SATA drivers?
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Paul " wrote in message
...
No, did not but I've never had to before.....I'll give that a go and see if
it works. I'll feel awfully stupid if that's the case.
thanks


Paul:
I really don't think this is a SATA controller driver issue since you've
indicated you're able to at least begin the XP OS setup process. If it *was*
a SATA driver issue you would have rec'd a message that Setup could not
detect a HDD at the very beginning of the setup process and you would have
had to abort at that point.

I assume the "SATA rack drive" you're referring to is a removable HDD mobile
rack affair, right?

You're absolutely sure the problem SATA HDD has been correctly installed in
the removable tray of the rack? We'll assume it is since you say there's no
problem with another HDD in the same mobile rack.

And you've also indicated that you've installed the problem disk as an
internal HDD but that you still get that same error message during the XP
install, right?

You've indicated that the problem HDD is multi-partitioned. How did you
accomplish that? Through Disk Management using your other boot drive?

What happens if you install the problem HDD as a secondary HDD in your
system, using your other HDD as the boot drive and accessing Disk
Management? The secondary HDD is seen OK? If so, think it might be wise to
delete all partitions and then start over with trying a fresh install of the
OS with the disk in its mobile rack and again, if no go there, try
connecting it again internally?

Although it doesn't sound like a defective HDD problem it might still be a
good idea to check out the disk with a HDD diagnostic utility from the
disk's manuf.
Anna


  #5  
Old December 12th 08, 02:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default Trouble installing XP Pro

It ended up being the XP Pro disc I was using. Don't know why but I tried
another one to install and it worked right away and things are fine. No
SATA drivers needed.

Thanks for the help.

"Anna" wrote in message
...


"Paul " wrote in message
...
I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems.
I've disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted up
fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It continues to
copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I get the message,
"A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Of course
doing this just makes the same thing happen. The disc is a 320 GB drive
with a 45 gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS and clean.
I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and Windows
7 beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not working.
The BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the drive
doesn't work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot directly
to it with no problems.
Any ideas and am I even making sense?
TIA


"JS" @ wrote in message ...
During the install process there is a point where you can install drivers
(Press F6).
Did you install the SATA drivers?
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Paul " wrote in message
...
No, did not but I've never had to before.....I'll give that a go and see
if it works. I'll feel awfully stupid if that's the case.
thanks


Paul:
I really don't think this is a SATA controller driver issue since you've
indicated you're able to at least begin the XP OS setup process. If it
*was* a SATA driver issue you would have rec'd a message that Setup could
not detect a HDD at the very beginning of the setup process and you would
have had to abort at that point.

I assume the "SATA rack drive" you're referring to is a removable HDD
mobile rack affair, right?

You're absolutely sure the problem SATA HDD has been correctly installed
in the removable tray of the rack? We'll assume it is since you say
there's no problem with another HDD in the same mobile rack.

And you've also indicated that you've installed the problem disk as an
internal HDD but that you still get that same error message during the XP
install, right?

You've indicated that the problem HDD is multi-partitioned. How did you
accomplish that? Through Disk Management using your other boot drive?

What happens if you install the problem HDD as a secondary HDD in your
system, using your other HDD as the boot drive and accessing Disk
Management? The secondary HDD is seen OK? If so, think it might be wise to
delete all partitions and then start over with trying a fresh install of
the OS with the disk in its mobile rack and again, if no go there, try
connecting it again internally?

Although it doesn't sound like a defective HDD problem it might still be a
good idea to check out the disk with a HDD diagnostic utility from the
disk's manuf.
Anna

  #6  
Old December 12th 08, 02:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Alias[_24_]
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Default Trouble installing XP Pro

Paul wrote:
It ended up being the XP Pro disc I was using. Don't know why but I
tried another one to install and it worked right away and things are
fine. No SATA drivers needed.

Thanks for the help.


Did the one that worked have either SP2 or SP3?

Alias

"Anna" wrote in message
...


"Paul " wrote in message
...
I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems.
I've disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted
up fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It
continues to copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I
get the message, "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to
restart". Of course doing this just makes the same thing happen. The
disc is a 320 GB drive with a 45 gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS
and clean.
I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and
Windows 7 beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not
working. The BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the
drive doesn't work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot
directly to it with no problems.
Any ideas and am I even making sense?
TIA


"JS" @ wrote in message ...
During the install process there is a point where you can install
drivers (Press F6).
Did you install the SATA drivers?
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Paul " wrote in message
...
No, did not but I've never had to before.....I'll give that a go and
see if it works. I'll feel awfully stupid if that's the case.
thanks


Paul:
I really don't think this is a SATA controller driver issue since
you've indicated you're able to at least begin the XP OS setup
process. If it *was* a SATA driver issue you would have rec'd a
message that Setup could not detect a HDD at the very beginning of the
setup process and you would have had to abort at that point.

I assume the "SATA rack drive" you're referring to is a removable HDD
mobile rack affair, right?

You're absolutely sure the problem SATA HDD has been correctly
installed in the removable tray of the rack? We'll assume it is since
you say there's no problem with another HDD in the same mobile rack.

And you've also indicated that you've installed the problem disk as an
internal HDD but that you still get that same error message during the
XP install, right?

You've indicated that the problem HDD is multi-partitioned. How did
you accomplish that? Through Disk Management using your other boot drive?

What happens if you install the problem HDD as a secondary HDD in your
system, using your other HDD as the boot drive and accessing Disk
Management? The secondary HDD is seen OK? If so, think it might be
wise to delete all partitions and then start over with trying a fresh
install of the OS with the disk in its mobile rack and again, if no go
there, try connecting it again internally?

Although it doesn't sound like a defective HDD problem it might still
be a good idea to check out the disk with a HDD diagnostic utility
from the disk's manuf.
Anna

  #7  
Old December 14th 08, 02:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default Trouble installing XP Pro

Turns out it was a bad XP install disc. I tried another one and it worked
right away.
Thanks for the help.

Paul

"Anna" wrote in message
...


"Paul " wrote in message
...
I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems.
I've disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted up
fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It continues to
copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I get the message,
"A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Of course
doing this just makes the same thing happen. The disc is a 320 GB drive
with a 45 gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS and clean.
I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and Windows
7 beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not working.
The BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the drive
doesn't work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot directly
to it with no problems.
Any ideas and am I even making sense?
TIA


"JS" @ wrote in message ...
During the install process there is a point where you can install drivers
(Press F6).
Did you install the SATA drivers?
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Paul " wrote in message
...
No, did not but I've never had to before.....I'll give that a go and see
if it works. I'll feel awfully stupid if that's the case.
thanks


Paul:
I really don't think this is a SATA controller driver issue since you've
indicated you're able to at least begin the XP OS setup process. If it
*was* a SATA driver issue you would have rec'd a message that Setup could
not detect a HDD at the very beginning of the setup process and you would
have had to abort at that point.

I assume the "SATA rack drive" you're referring to is a removable HDD
mobile rack affair, right?

You're absolutely sure the problem SATA HDD has been correctly installed
in the removable tray of the rack? We'll assume it is since you say
there's no problem with another HDD in the same mobile rack.

And you've also indicated that you've installed the problem disk as an
internal HDD but that you still get that same error message during the XP
install, right?

You've indicated that the problem HDD is multi-partitioned. How did you
accomplish that? Through Disk Management using your other boot drive?

What happens if you install the problem HDD as a secondary HDD in your
system, using your other HDD as the boot drive and accessing Disk
Management? The secondary HDD is seen OK? If so, think it might be wise to
delete all partitions and then start over with trying a fresh install of
the OS with the disk in its mobile rack and again, if no go there, try
connecting it again internally?

Although it doesn't sound like a defective HDD problem it might still be a
good idea to check out the disk with a HDD diagnostic utility from the
disk's manuf.
Anna


 




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