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New HDD, BSOD when installing XP

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tehbrosta

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My buddy has a HP Pavilion Media Center a1646x Desktop PC. This is the second time the HDD has corrupted files so it was time for a new HDD. I purchased this Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500AAJS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive HDD. As normal, I swapped out the HDDs. Booted off the Windows XP disc and it started copying files. Once it reached "starting windows" it BSOD'd. I don?t have the exact message but it said if this is the first time you?re seeing this restart. If you've seen this message before check your disk for viruses.

I tried setting the HDD to 1.5Mps, same thing. I tried a different HDD, same thing.

Does this sound like a SATA Driver issue? If so, on the HP website I can install the utility but I just want the driver... where would I find this?
 
I could be wrong but i assume you don't want raid and need to change the setting to IDE.
SATA driver should not matter during install, if you were going to set SATA Controller in AHCI mode than you might need a driver F6 before winXP install.....thats why IDE mode is fine for SATA drive and you won't need any extra drivers.

 
I guess it depends on what setup you want. If you want to use raid, then you need the raid driver for the F6 install during XP. If you don't want to use a driver, go with IDE mode.
 
Originally posted by: armstrda
I guess it depends on what setup you want. If you want to use raid, then you need the raid driver for the F6 install during XP. If you don't want to use a driver, go with IDE mode.
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Ill try that out. But I've done a few SATA: RAID systems without having to provide the drivers. IDK we'll see.

 
Originally posted by: tehbrosta
Originally posted by: armstrda
I guess it depends on what setup you want. If you want to use raid, then you need the raid driver for the F6 install during XP. If you don't want to use a driver, go with IDE mode.
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Ill try that out. But I've done a few SATA: RAID systems without having to provide the drivers. IDK we'll see.
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maybe on Vista, on XP, no way.
 
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