Problems Installing XP on new machine

[bsp41f]

I have just upgraded my machine to the following specs:
A7N8X Deluxe (2.0) Motherboard Athlon XP2500 (Barton)
2x Seagate 80Gb Serial ATA Hard Disks Set up as a Striped Array using the utility built into the motherboard.
I have an XP Home OEM CD and It does not detect the Hard Drive (which I assume is now considered as one 160GB drive with the RAID setup) and it doesn't want to install.

Do I need to partition the Hard drive?
I tried with Fdisk but it misreads the size and when I tried anyway it still didn't work.

Can I use FAT32 or should I use NTFS?

What program can I use to set it up?

Help!!! I want to play on my new computer!

I'm also upgrading a friend to the same spec but he'll have Win98SE, will the process be the same?

Thanks

James

 

[DOHCrazy]

you cant boot from SATA i belive, a friend of mine just had this same prob.

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[WingDing]

You can, I have only one hard drives, and it's SATA.

The SATA controller drivers have to be loaded when you're installing Windows, otherwise it won't recognise the drive.

Barton 2500+, 512MB Corsair Platinum XMS 3200 CL2, Radeon 9700, WD Raptor 10,000 rpm S-ATA HDD, Asus A7V600, Enermax 460W SilentPlus PSU.

 

[4Ryan6]

The SATA controller drivers have to be loaded when you're installing Windows, otherwise it won't recognise the drive.

I'd say thats one serious piece of missing information wouldn't you Wingy!




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