- May 29, 2003
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I can't for the life of me figure this one out.
I have a Abit NF7-S Ver2 Mobo with an AMD XP 3200+ Barton and am using two 120GB Seagate SATA drives in a Raid 0 setup with two partitions, one partition is 20GB and is for the OS and the other is the remainder to store data. When I boot off of the Windows XP CD it will allow me to create my partitions and format the 20GB partition using NTFS then do the final process of copying over the files to the hard drive for setup, it then reboots, does the normal POST and then where it should kick into the rest of the setup, it just goes to a blank screen and sits there with no activity at all from the system for about 10 mins, then brings up an error message that says "boot.ini missing" then below that C:\Windows and all I can do is power it off.
I am totally lost and have no idea how to solve this issue. I've made sure that the memory passes the memory check during POST, I've removed any additional drives and items not needed at the time, such as my IDE drive, and other CD ROM, and all USB devices etc..
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I have a Abit NF7-S Ver2 Mobo with an AMD XP 3200+ Barton and am using two 120GB Seagate SATA drives in a Raid 0 setup with two partitions, one partition is 20GB and is for the OS and the other is the remainder to store data. When I boot off of the Windows XP CD it will allow me to create my partitions and format the 20GB partition using NTFS then do the final process of copying over the files to the hard drive for setup, it then reboots, does the normal POST and then where it should kick into the rest of the setup, it just goes to a blank screen and sits there with no activity at all from the system for about 10 mins, then brings up an error message that says "boot.ini missing" then below that C:\Windows and all I can do is power it off.
I am totally lost and have no idea how to solve this issue. I've made sure that the memory passes the memory check during POST, I've removed any additional drives and items not needed at the time, such as my IDE drive, and other CD ROM, and all USB devices etc..
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.