Hi,
Thx in advance for any help/replies/suggestions.
I had an age old system(P3 550Mhz) and did an upgrade only using old HDDs all others are new components(mobo, memory, video, case+PSU). Running WinXP Pro SP2.
Setup:
ASUS P5LD2 Delux Mobo (Latest BIOS: ver 0603)
Intel Pentium D 930 3.0Ghz
Geforce 7300GS 256mg PCI-E Video Card
2 IDE HDDs: WD 100GB HDD
Samsung 15 GB HDD
8x DVD-RW drive.
Patriot PC5300 2GB Dual DDR2 memory
500W Antec power supply (ATX v2.0 compliant, new)
First connected 2 HDDs to EIDE(RED PRI_EIDE) and DVD drive to PRI_IDE(BLUE). After loading(F6 during setup) ITE driver with WinXP installation, HDD got recognized and "replace install" went fine, but on boot got "A disk Read error occured, press any key to reboot". I tried all suggestion in different forums but no avail. But all third party tools and WinXP sees the drive and read the contents everything intact, but unble to boot. Tried "fixboot", "fixmbr", "fdisk /mbr" etc, but no use. If I continue to use this setup do I need to load SATA and Chipset driver also during winxp setup ? Have important data on primary boot drive, don't want to loose it.
Later connected 1 HDD(primary boot drive) and DVD to PRI_IDE(BLUE) with HDD(80wire cable) with HDD as Master and DVD as slave. Boot priority set to Floppy, DVD, HDD, but never boot from DVD, but see "... setup is inspecting your setup..."(with WinXP install disk), thats it never comes back.
Please help to get around this problem. Your help/suggestion welcome.
Thanks.
Thx in advance for any help/replies/suggestions.
I had an age old system(P3 550Mhz) and did an upgrade only using old HDDs all others are new components(mobo, memory, video, case+PSU). Running WinXP Pro SP2.
Setup:
ASUS P5LD2 Delux Mobo (Latest BIOS: ver 0603)
Intel Pentium D 930 3.0Ghz
Geforce 7300GS 256mg PCI-E Video Card
2 IDE HDDs: WD 100GB HDD
Samsung 15 GB HDD
8x DVD-RW drive.
Patriot PC5300 2GB Dual DDR2 memory
500W Antec power supply (ATX v2.0 compliant, new)
First connected 2 HDDs to EIDE(RED PRI_EIDE) and DVD drive to PRI_IDE(BLUE). After loading(F6 during setup) ITE driver with WinXP installation, HDD got recognized and "replace install" went fine, but on boot got "A disk Read error occured, press any key to reboot". I tried all suggestion in different forums but no avail. But all third party tools and WinXP sees the drive and read the contents everything intact, but unble to boot. Tried "fixboot", "fixmbr", "fdisk /mbr" etc, but no use. If I continue to use this setup do I need to load SATA and Chipset driver also during winxp setup ? Have important data on primary boot drive, don't want to loose it.
Later connected 1 HDD(primary boot drive) and DVD to PRI_IDE(BLUE) with HDD(80wire cable) with HDD as Master and DVD as slave. Boot priority set to Floppy, DVD, HDD, but never boot from DVD, but see "... setup is inspecting your setup..."(with WinXP install disk), thats it never comes back.
Please help to get around this problem. Your help/suggestion welcome.
Thanks.