Im having trouble setting up my WD Raptor drive

[NinjaGnome]

Ok I got everything to work in the bios and then I go and put my windows xp pro disc in and format the drive using ntfs and when its done it says that the disc has been damaged or if i have a scsi drive then make sure its properly terminated. Does anyone know if i need to change a jumper setting or something on the drive? Any help would be great

 

[fredtam]

The jumper on a raptor only configures power management.

 

[Budman]

Windows XP doesnt know what Serial ATA is , you need to tell it with a floppy drive when it's setting up. usualy you have to press F6 While booting up & then supply it with drivers.

 

[NinjaGnome]

now its saying unknown hard error after i installed win xp.
I took that jumper out, should i put it back in?


Here are full specs to the system
3.0 ghz C
IC7-g mobo
1gig of twinx 3500
WD raptor
WD 120gb Spec ED
FX 5800 ultra
52x sony cd-rom
16x toshiba DVD
kingwin 450 watt powersupply

 

[fredtam]

The jumper will do nothing. Which SATA ports are you hooked up to? Does it give you a file name/path after the error message?

 

[Viper96720]

What motherboard? Where are you installing the drive to? If it's an on board controller you may have to F6 and install the sata drivers first. Tried checking
out the WD support page?

 

[NinjaGnome]

Im installing the drive on port 1 which is the sata controller on the southbridge. Im gonna try flashing the bios to see if that helps.

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: NinjaGnome
Im installing the drive on port 1 which is the sata controller on the southbridge. Im gonna try flashing the bios to see if that helps.

It seems as if you're ignoring what two other people have already said: If you're doing a fresh install, you need to first give XP the SATA drivers. They came on a floppy with your motherboard. As has been pointed out, when you first start the install you need to press F6 and supply it with the floppy. Otherwise there is no way for XP to recognize the drive.

 

[NinjaGnome]

i havent ignored it ive already done it and it didnt do anything.

 

[NinjaGnome]

The error im getting is
Unkown Hard error
\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll

is it possible my disc is bad?

 

[Viper96720]

This might help if you got a dos boot disk. corrupt Ntdll.dll file

 

[fredtam]

You should be able to use the repair console from the XP cd. That file is corrupt and needs to be replaced.

 

[NinjaGnome]

alright ill try these and ill update you if it doesnt work

 

[NinjaGnome]

Well ive tried everything and I still cant get the raptor to be my boot drive. The special edition is also hokked up the serial ATA and i installed just fine on it. I have no clue whats up with that drive.

 

[fredtam]

I may be wrong but I think you just answered your own question. Pull the WD and try the install on the raptor.

 

[NinjaGnome]

I wanted the WD raptor to be my boot drive. But since I cant get that then ill just settle for using it as the drives i put the games on.

 

[stevel114]

Before giving up try this, make sure you have the driver disc for the sata controller, install the WD by itself for now. Make sure it is set to master on the first sata port. When you boot off the WinXP CD hit the F6 key when you see it on the botton of the screen. It should prompt you for the driver disc next. Put the disc in and make sure the see the controller listed when it's done. When you get to the screen that show all the drives and partitions the WD should show up as C:. Very important. If it does you should be able to install XP after that with no problems. After you get into XP you can change any of the drive letters around except for C:. Shut down and hook up your Seagate and you should be set.

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: NinjaGnome
I wanted the WD raptor to be my boot drive. But since I cant get that then ill just settle for using it as the drives i put the games on.

Why don't you pull out all other drives and THEN try to install to the Raptor. I'm still not sure you're getting the message about installing the special drivers at boot time, but since you're sure of it I'll leave you alone. Good luck.

 

[NinjaGnome]

Well, the thing with that floppy is it seems to only have Intel or Silicon Image RAID Controllers on the floppy. There isn't anything else. No Controller or anything. Just RAID Controllers. I went to the Abit webpage and downloaded some of the other drivers and they are only RAID controllers also. I will try this again. Thanks for all the input so far. Also after I installed on my 120 GB WD it XP worked but the Raptor didn't show up in Windows. Prolly cuz I don't have the controller driver. Just RAID Controllers. If anyone knows where I can get the SATA Driver hook me up with a link.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: NinjaGnome
Well, the thing with that floppy is it seems to only have Intel or Silicon Image RAID Controllers on the floppy. There isn't anything else. No Controller or anything. Just RAID Controllers. I went to the Abit webpage and downloaded some of the other drivers and they are only RAID controllers also. I will try this again. Thanks for all the input so far. Also after I installed on my 120 GB WD it XP worked but the Raptor didn't show up in Windows. Prolly cuz I don't have the controller driver. Just RAID Controllers. If anyone knows where I can get the SATA Driver hook me up with a link.

Edit: Wrong info..

 

[Redviffer]

What version of XP? It won't see SATA until after SP-1 update. Might be what's the problem.

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: NinjaGnome
Well, the thing with that floppy is it seems to only have Intel or Silicon Image RAID Controllers on the floppy. There isn't anything else. No Controller or anything. Just RAID Controllers. I went to the Abit webpage and downloaded some of the other drivers and they are only RAID controllers also. I will try this again. Thanks for all the input so far. Also after I installed on my 120 GB WD it XP worked but the Raptor didn't show up in Windows. Prolly cuz I don't have the controller driver. Just RAID Controllers. If anyone knows where I can get the SATA Driver hook me up with a link.

Install that driver, that's the controller windows needs to see the Raptor, why else would it come with the motherboard?

Not true. I am using a IC7-G and a WD 120GB SATA drive. I simply hooked up the drive to sata port 1 and turned the system on/loaded windows/chipset drivers. The problem comes when having both drive attached and trying to set up. Hook up the raptor as the only drive and setup xp. Install chipset driver/lan/audio/usb. Then install the SI drivers from the disk. Reboot go into the BIOS and go to Integrated Peripherals> Onboard PCI and enable the SaTA controller but disable the SATA raid rom. Reboot and shut the system down and attach the WD IDE drive to port 3 or for and start it up. The problem seems to come when all hard drives are attached at the original setup.

Edit: forgot to mention do not install the Intel Raid drivers.

 

[NinjaGnome]

Well Ill try setting it up as the only drive. W/O the Intel Drivers. It gives me that corrupted .dll file everytime when I install on the Raptor. On the 120 GB WD it works fine.

 

[bjc112]

Thanks for clearing that up.



My mistake.

 

[NinjaGnome]

ok well two things here...I installed XP with only the Raptor Plugged in still gave me the Unkown Hard error
\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll it always does after it installs and reboots. Second I had it plugged in to SATA Port 1 and it would show up as slave. Lots of time this Raptor before I format says it can't because the disk may be damaged but other times it works...I think my HD may be broken. Im not sure...I really wanted my Raptor to be my boot drive. I did everything u have suggested so far everytime I install on the Raptor it says that same thing. Other time I installed on my WD 120 GB it worked but the Raptor didn't show up prolly cuz I didn't install the drivers. Anything else I can try?