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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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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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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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