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Windows XP Will Not Install on Brand New Raptor

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PawNtheSandman

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Currently I am running Win XP Home on a 36gb Raptor. I purchased a new 150gb Raptor.

I disconnected all hard drives. I attached the 150gb Raptor on SATA 1. Raptor does not have any jumpers on it.

I boot from a legit XP Home cd. I insert my SATA driver disk. It goes through the start up.

Finally it gets to the screen where is DOES SEE the disk, but it says press enter to install, press c to create a partition, press d to delete partition.

Once I get to this screen I can do nothing. No response from the keyboard. I tried various USB and PS/2 keyboards. Same result.

I've tried:

My original store bought XP Home cd (no service pack)
Nlite burned XP home cd with sata and SP2 slipstreamed
Store bought XP Pro w/SP2

All cd's give the same result.

Suggestions? The PC can see the drive but when it gets to that point it seems like it freezes.
 
Did you set up the new drive when your other drive( 36GB) was running your OS or did you just take it from the box?. WD must have setup software that came with the drive. Go back to the original setup with the 36GB drive and the new one connected to another SATA port. Run that setup software with your other drive. If it didn't come with setup software, you can setup the drive from within Windows XP. You can to Windows explorer, right click on computer and go to manage. From there click on disk management. You should see your new drive there. Format it from there and you should be ready to go.
 
OEM Drive, no setup disk.

I should be able to format the drive from within the windows set up. Why should I have to connect it up as a slave and format it through a fully running version of windows?
 
It seems that if your Windows disk "sees" the drive it should be able to set the drive up and set whatever partition you chose. The fact that you said you can't, had me thinking it wasn't properly formatted/partition right from the get go. When I buy a drive I always have to set it up before using. My system won't "see" the drive if I just plug it in. My suggestion to do it from within Windows is because you have no setup software.

The drive needs at least a low-level format for Windows to see it and maybe WD doesn't low level format their OEM drives. I am just guessing and suggesting a reason behind the problem with your drive. Plug it back in with your other drive running the OS and run through the disk managment and I bet you'll be fine.
 
If your board supports 1st gen sata then you probably need to have jumper set on that drive to limit that drive to 1st gen specs.
See if that is problem.
 
Thanks.

I would have preferred to do a clean Win install but I just hooked the new one up as a slave, then used the WD tools to migrate from the old to the new. Took 20 mins, and no problem with the new drive so far.
 
I had a similar problem with a SATA drive when putting together a new system. I went into bios and set it to "fail safe" setting (or something like that) and it loaded okay, then went back to tweaking. This may help. Good Luck.
 
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