Cant install OS

[plqsvaja]

i have a wd raptor 150 Sata and a brand new Seagate 7200.10 320gb Sata and i cant install a xp or vista on them, im not running raid. when i boot on the xp or vista cd/dvd it ses the disks and installs fine but when it reboots and continues the install it says " Error loading os"
Things i have done:
2 diffrent Motherboards
made a ghost of installed xp tho the WD. samme error.
Slow format of drives.


i have other disks and there is no problems whit them.
All Sata disks

 

[imported_AndyT]

Other than the possibilty that the drives are damaged, this is a mysterious one! My Seagate drives work just fine.

Are these drives seen by your system and useable as a storage drive? I would run a scan on them to check for bad sectors. Seagate should have a utilty available for drive testing.

 

[plqsvaja]

They works fine and the system sees them no errors????
I dont khnow what to do i prefere to install my OS on my fastest drive but i cant???

 

[KGB]

Are you trying to install the OS with both SATA drives attached?

If so, try using only one and then connect the second one after the OS is installed.

 

[Ultralight]

I'll give it a shot; not sure if it will help. Is this a new build/first time using SATA in your build? I was having trouble loading XP on my Seagate SATA in my new build until I was advised that your harddrive must be designated as First Bootable drive in your BIOS. For what its worth...

 

[plqsvaja]

whit only one drive Attached. no go.
and it gets auto designatet to first boot drive

 

[Jiggz]

All these errors after you partitioned the hdd and then did a full format? And the CPU is not overclocked? and finally the bios set conservatively? Which mobo?

 

[plqsvaja]

Tried:
On a Asus A8N-32 SLI whit 3 difrents BIOS
On a Asus P5N32-E SLI 3 difrent BIOS
F6 whit SATA drivers
F6 whit Raid SATA driver

 

[Shawn]

gotta be a bad drive then.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: plqsvaja
Tried:
On a Asus A8N-32 SLI whit 3 difrents BIOS
On a Asus P5N32-E SLI 3 difrent BIOS
F6 whit SATA drivers
F6 whit Raid SATA driver

With most Nvidia chipset boards, I believe you need to load BOTH the SATA & SATA-RAID driver together in order to install XP wether you are creating a RAID array or not. Hit F6 & first load the SATA driver, then after it loads, press "S" to load another driver & add the SATA RAID driver... also be sure to leave the floppy with the drivers in the drive during initial setup.

 

[plqsvaja]

Originally posted by: Captante

Originally posted by: plqsvaja
Tried:
On a Asus A8N-32 SLI whit 3 difrents BIOS
On a Asus P5N32-E SLI 3 difrent BIOS
F6 whit SATA drivers
F6 whit Raid SATA driver

With most Nvidia chipset boards, I believe you need to load BOTH the SATA & SATA-RAID driver together in order to install XP wether you are creating a RAID array or not. Hit F6 & first load the SATA driver, then after it loads, press "S" to load another driver & add the SATA RAID driver... also be sure to leave the floppy with the drivers in the drive during initial setup.

I have done exactly that, didnt work

 

[AMCRambler]

I'm thinking real basic stuff here. Maybe it's something silly. The jumpers on th drives are configured right? I know the SATA drives have some weird jumper settings for limiting disk size, speed, etc. I doubt that both drives are bad.
Could try booting with a dos bootdisk after the cd/dvd finishes loading and running fdisk /mbr to format the master boot record. I've had this fix some unbootable windows installs if the mbr is corrupted somehow. That's about all I got.

 

[Jiggz]

Alright, last one try. This time remove unnecessary peripherals. Use only the basic to install the OS. A hdd, optical drive and of course the video card. If it still does not work you have to use a different hdd.

 

[plqsvaja]

i have tryid it whit only ram and GFX installd, didnt work.
There are no jumbers on my SATA disks.

 

[kedlav]

There shouldn't be jumpers on any SATA disk. Try reinstalling the OS with one HDD attached at a time. See if either will work this way. If not, you've probably had the luck of drawing two defective drives.