Hey everyone,
Glad I found this board so much info and help. I tried searching around first but could not find an answer for my particular problem, although it may be that I did not look hard enough..
I just recently built a new machine and I am having trouble with my Raptor drive.
Here are the sys specs
MSI K8N (735) Neo Platinum
A64 (1MB) 3400+
WD 74GB 10,000 SATA HD on SATA1
Lite-On CDRW set as Master on IDE1
I went into the BIOS and set it up to AUTO all drives (IDE/SATA)
Then I proceeded to install WinXP Pro from CD and used the F6 option to install my SATA drivers for my MB. (I had 2 options here when I selected "Specify an ...." I had the option of picking RAID or nForce3 so I chose the nForce3 off of the floppy (as a side note I went back and chose RAID once too). Everything seemed to go fine and I created the partition (100%) and let Windows copy everything over. Here is where things went wrong.
When I have my first reboot after copying files I get the following
Verifying DMI Pool Data....
Unable to load operating system
I was scratching my head and going crazy with this for like a good hour trying tons of combinations, one thing that did strike me odd is that Windows Setup recognized only about 70GB of the total 74GB available it was something like (70938MB). Does that sound odd to anyone else I know that sometimes you have to give or take a little with manufacturer stated usable space but -4GB that seemed odd.
So after all my frustrations I went into BIOS and set the drive instead of Auto to Large (LBA not available) Is LBA an EIDE thing only? Does LBA not exist with SATA? After setting that and running through the same scenario with the Windows Install (with a slightly lower partition size (708??MB)) the files copied and the system rebooted and loaded windows and I was able to finish installing.
I may have found my own answer but I wanted some opinions of more knowledgeable people to see if this was the right solution and see what other people have done with this similar config.
So my bottomline ?'s are
1. Does it make sense that only 70G is usable out of 74G on the Raptor?
2. Should I have had to force the MSI board to use Large instead of Auto on that drive?
3. The drive and WD site says to always select LBA for all drives in BIOS, is that true?
4. How come I do not have an LBA option in MSI BIOS for my SATA Raptor?
And finally maybe someone could just cut to the chase and just tell me what to set in BIOS...
Thanks!!
-shane
Glad I found this board so much info and help. I tried searching around first but could not find an answer for my particular problem, although it may be that I did not look hard enough..
I just recently built a new machine and I am having trouble with my Raptor drive.
Here are the sys specs
MSI K8N (735) Neo Platinum
A64 (1MB) 3400+
WD 74GB 10,000 SATA HD on SATA1
Lite-On CDRW set as Master on IDE1
I went into the BIOS and set it up to AUTO all drives (IDE/SATA)
Then I proceeded to install WinXP Pro from CD and used the F6 option to install my SATA drivers for my MB. (I had 2 options here when I selected "Specify an ...." I had the option of picking RAID or nForce3 so I chose the nForce3 off of the floppy (as a side note I went back and chose RAID once too). Everything seemed to go fine and I created the partition (100%) and let Windows copy everything over. Here is where things went wrong.
When I have my first reboot after copying files I get the following
Verifying DMI Pool Data....
Unable to load operating system
I was scratching my head and going crazy with this for like a good hour trying tons of combinations, one thing that did strike me odd is that Windows Setup recognized only about 70GB of the total 74GB available it was something like (70938MB). Does that sound odd to anyone else I know that sometimes you have to give or take a little with manufacturer stated usable space but -4GB that seemed odd.
So after all my frustrations I went into BIOS and set the drive instead of Auto to Large (LBA not available) Is LBA an EIDE thing only? Does LBA not exist with SATA? After setting that and running through the same scenario with the Windows Install (with a slightly lower partition size (708??MB)) the files copied and the system rebooted and loaded windows and I was able to finish installing.
I may have found my own answer but I wanted some opinions of more knowledgeable people to see if this was the right solution and see what other people have done with this similar config.
So my bottomline ?'s are
1. Does it make sense that only 70G is usable out of 74G on the Raptor?
2. Should I have had to force the MSI board to use Large instead of Auto on that drive?
3. The drive and WD site says to always select LBA for all drives in BIOS, is that true?
4. How come I do not have an LBA option in MSI BIOS for my SATA Raptor?
And finally maybe someone could just cut to the chase and just tell me what to set in BIOS...
Thanks!!
-shane
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