Jack, I don't fully understand what happens between the board, drive, and drivers at the point where the HDD is accessed. You probably know better.
Captante, thanks. I'm going to see if the drive will be recognized as a secondary (non-RAID) drive within Windows. If it is recognized, I'll...
A breakthrough tonight. I removed the 320Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 and put in a 80Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 drive. The slipstreamed WinXP disk I created worked like a charm and Windows was set up in no time.
SO. Hm. In doing some research in the difference between 7200.10 and 7200.9...
Yes. Ok, still learning... SATA I must mean 1.5Gb per sec and SATA II is 3.0Gb per second? Yes, that jumper setting was among the things I tried. Didn't matter either way. The mobo does support 3.0Gb/sec.
Yes, I updated my BIOS.
Captante, this WinXPPro disk is SP2 already.
Xsorovan,
I used SeaTools from Seagate and the short and long tests both passed successfully. I can view files on the C: drive. The drive is solid.
I also went through another series of various tricks. I tried different SATA ports on the...
I bought a new system from NewEgg (listed below in signature), eagerly put it together and now I can't even get Windows XP Pro up and running. Apparently Windows XP doesn't play nicely with SATA drives!
Here is what I've done to attempt to rectify the problem:
- Updated BIOS
- Verified...
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