Abit IP35-E, SATA HD, Win XP won't load

[21stHermit]

I have an old copy of XP 2002 SP nada and I'm going in circles. It keeps rebooting from the XP CD and reinstalling XP. Never get to the SATA HD, regardless of the boot order in BIOS.

My Abit IP35-E CD has a procedure for making a SATA floppy, but it does not like my 10-year old floppy drive, says not supported model.

Opening the CD only shows Vista 32/64 SATA Drivers and going to Abit's website had no SATA drivers listed under the IP-35-E.

Their must be a way but my wee brain can't figure it out.

HELP, How do I get XP installed???

Thanks

 

[olmer]

I assume you can see the drive in BIOS, what are your ?on-chip SATA? device settings? You may need additional drivers if trying to install XP in ACPI mode.

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: olmer
I assume you can see the drive in BIOS, what are your ?on-chip SATA? device settings? You may need additional drivers if trying to install XP in ACPI mode.

Not only can I see the drive in BIOS but Windows can see, read, write and repair the SATA drive when its booted from the install CD. Perhaps this isn't XP, rather a DOS installer?

Eventually it needs to reboot during the install and that's when it reboots from the CD and I start over and over . . .

Not clear on ACPI?

Thanks

 

[olmer]

Than your hdd should be in IDE.

You should have an option to boot from cd only if any key (where is the ?anykey??) pressed if your hdd is in the boot order, do you have it?

Does XP setup go as far as copying the files? Did you try simply removing your CD media before restart? There is only ICH9 controller on your board so it should work unless you have AHCI on in BIOS.

 

[olmer]

Yep, sorry about ACPI in my earlier post ? its Saturday, the red wine day. Power standards are getting mixed with ATA interfaces.

 

[bigi]

(where is the ?anykey??)

I don't see any anykey, there is COTOROL and PIGUP...

 

[21stHermit]

I solved this by combining my copy of XP Home v2002 with SP2 using Paul Thurrott's excellent Slipstreaming Windows XP with Service Pack 2 guide.

Had one minor problem, XP kept wanting to reinstall until I removed the CD and waited for Windows install to request the CD. I did not need a floppy nor anything at the RAID F6 prompt.

Hope this helps someone.