Western Digital 2500/XP Install Problem

[jsteinback]

Hello,

I've been struggling to get a fresh copy of XP Home put back on a friend's computer. She has a WD2500 SATA hard drive that I was able to completely wipe the drive due to some issues she was having.

The drive will show up in bios, but when I go through the windows setup process it ends with no hard disks found.

I'm sure I need to add third party raid/scsi drivers at the F6 step of setup, but I can't find any that will work.

Can anybody help? It is a WD2500JD. It is in a Dell Dimension 8400 if that is important.

Thanks so much for your help!

 

[jsteinback]

Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately when I tried loading that file from the setup I got a "unexpected response in line (140) from (windows install temp directory).

I am sure that this is a good hard drive.

Any other ideas?

 

[jsteinback]

yes, the file extracts to a detected floppy disk.

The problem comes after F6, I hit "S" to specify drivers, and shortly after the process starts I revieve the "unexpected response" error.

 

[jsteinback]

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