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Hi, Ran278.
I see that further down in this thread you said:
"When I installed the drivers for the hard drive the end result was set at
137G not 160.
"I install windows 137G comes up again, but when in BIOS setup in the CMOS
setup the drive registers at 160G."
That's what I was getting at in my first post when I asked about the
interface of your new 160 GB HD. You still haven't told us anything about
your hardware or BIOS. We don't know the make and model of your computer or
your motherboard or your HD controller or your new hard drive You have kept
us very much in the dark! You've posted 6 messages now (well, 3 of them
were triplicates) in the past 4 days and still have not told us ANY of this
information. :>(
"Big drives" have been on the market for several years now, but many of us
are still running computers with a mobo/BIOS without support for those
drives. Here's an old (2002) article that explains what you need and why:
Live Large with Big Drives
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200210/ai_ziff30753
And here's a KB article that explains that you need at least SP1 for WinXP:
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
Step 1 is to be sure that your computer hardware can handle >137 GB HDs.
Step 2 is to be sure your BIOS is updated to handle 48-bit LBA addressing.
Step 3, be sure your WinXP is at least SP1; you really should visit Windows
Update to be sure that you have SP2 and all the later critical updates. If
you are still working with the original 10/25/01 version of the WinXP
CD-ROM, you may need to get SP2 and use your CD burner to create a
"slipstreamed" version of WinXP with SP2 integrated into it; if you need
instructions for this, please post back.
THEN, boot from the WinXP Pro w/SP2 CD-ROM and install WinXP on your new 160
GB HD. It should be a snap!
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Ran278" <Ran278@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Tried it, and did not work. I made sure all my drivers for new hard drive
> are installed also.
>
> The message "Please insert boot disk into drive A: " "and hit any key to
> continue." This appears after I have installed from the the blue screen.
>
> This message comes up when I have removed the disk while computer is
> rebooting.
>
> "R. C. White" wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ran278.
>>
>> Sounds like the classic problem of failing to install drivers for your
>> non-vanilla HD/controller during installation of WinXP.
>>
>> What kind of HD/controller are you using as the boot device? SATA?
>> SCSI?
>> RAID?
>>
>> Very early in Setup, as it is detecting the hardware configuration, a
>> message will flash briefly at the bottom of the screen saying something
>> like
>> "Press F6 to install drivers for RAID or other mass storage devices".
>> Press
>> F6 and wait while it seems not to notice and continues to copy all those
>> many files. When it finally stops, there will be instructions onscreen
>> for
>> how to install drivers from a floppy diskette.
>>
>> Before you boot from the WinXP CD-ROM, though, be sure you have a floppy
>> with the proper drivers on it. Your new 160 GB HD may have come with
>> such a
>> floppy, or you may need to copy the drivers from a CD to a floppy before
>> running Setup.
>>
>> The WinXP Setup CD-ROM knows how to partition and format your HD and copy
>> files to it, but when you reboot from the HD for the first time, to
>> continue
>> Setup, drivers for the new boot device must have already been integrated
>> into YOUR copy of WinXP.
>>
>> RC
>>
>> "Ran278" <Ran278@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:52CC5B71-943B-4A38-BA38-55E6B99DC9F1@microsoft.com...
>> >I been haveing trouble installing xp pro on my hard drive.
>> > I am able to get through the windows install, computer reboots then
>> > starts the process all over again starting from the blue screen.
>> >
>> > I've tried setting the cdrom as the first bootable drive but this does
>> > not
>> > do the trick.
>> >
>> > my pins are correct on my 160 gig drive. I don't know what else to
>> > do...
>> >
>> > Please help...
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