DS3P can't install XP to SATA drive?

[AbRASiON]

I'm having problems installing XPSP2 to a SATA disk I've got attached to my DSP3 (brand new F4 bios, 3.3 revision)

I am NOT using an F6 floppy, however I was under the impression you don't need one when installing XP with some intel chipsets?

It manages to detect the drive and see partitions, I can format the one I want and install but then it NTLDR is missing'd me upon re-boot.

I had a very very similar problem with an Asus NF4 board over a year ago, huge huge amounts of problems and in the long run, surprisingly the solution was to 'force' the disk into LARGE mode in the bios and not LBA - I was skeptical but I found forum posts confirming it and it did work for me.


Strangely if I use Acronis Disk Director and copy the existing XP install across it doesn't work either and that existing XP install has the right drivers loaded into it.
Also I'm trying to manually select the correct drive with F12 to be sure, the disk is not faulty and yes the partition is active, what am I missing here, it is one of those obscure bios options like AHCI or SATA or PATA mode.

For reference I'm using the orange connectors on the board and port #0 or #1 or whatever it is, the very first one.
Anyone else have this? I just want to boot my machine off SATA instead of PATA - I'm concerned there might be some performance issues with PATA after seeing some forum posts claiming anomalies AND it seems ... odd off the PATA for me also.

Would love a response, appreciate it muchly


EDIT: It IS an SP2 slipstreamed disc.

 

[AbRASiON]

Anyone?

 

[chizow]

Try setting your SATA drive to "Large" in the BIOS. It should be an option under the most basic device listing menu, click on the drive and see if it has any options to change the settings.

Happened to me recently on my last install. Weirdest thing was I didn't have the same problem with my other Raptor.

 

[vailr]

Try selecting "optimized default settings" in bios.
Or:
SATA Port 0-3 Disabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Device: Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Control Mode: Raid/IDE (or) AHCI
Are you installing to the first partition on the drive?
Might need to delete all existing partitions, then create new ones (using the WinXP bootable CD).
If that doesn't work, try attaching to one of the JMicron ports.
Note: AHCI mode does require an F6 driver.

 

[AbRASiON]

I did try forcing large, still no go.

 

[AbRASiON]

Originally posted by: vailr
Try selecting "optimized default settings" in bios.
Or:
SATA Port 0-3 Disabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Device: Enabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Control Mode: Raid/IDE (or) AHCI
Are you installing to the first partition on the drive?
Might need to delete all existing partitions, then create new ones (using the WinXP bootable CD).
If that doesn't work, try attaching to one of the JMicron ports.
Note: AHCI mode does require an F6 driver.

I have tried with AHCI enabled without F6 floppy, it doesn't see the drive (good, I'm on the right track)
Tried with AHCI enabled and the F6 floppy (intel one? not gigabyte one?) and it failed
I tried with AHCI disabled and it failed
Only thing I haven't tried is AHCI disabled and still using an F6 Floppy (but the XPSP2 cd can still see the disk anyhow?)

 

[F1shF4t]

Unplug all the other drives in the system, install windows, then u can attach all the other drives when u have it all set up.

What i think might be happening is that widows is installing the boot information on the pata drive and the rest of windows on your sata drive.
So when you set the sata as boot, it cant do it.
I had that happen to me before, if i had any partitions on the pata drives windows would assign them as C: drive before the sata drive i wanted.
So i always use a single drive when installing.

NTLDR will always be put on C: drive

 

[AbRASiON]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
Unplug all the other drives in the system, install windows, then u can attach all the other drives when u have it all set up.

Done that

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
What i think might be happening is that widows is installing the boot information on the pata drive and the rest of windows on your sata drive.
So when you set the sata as boot, it cant do it.
I had that happen to me before, if i had any partitions on the pata drives windows would assign them as C: drive before the sata drive i wanted.
So i always use a single drive when installing.

NTLDR will always be put on C: drive

I made a point of unplugging all disks, only 1 SATA with 2 partitions on there - I even formatted the partition and made sure it comes up as "C:" in the XP install menu so that I new it was writing to the correct disk.