Issue Installing XP on a disk attached to Jmicron controller

blackninja

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I have Vista 64 Ultimate on my main SATA drive. I wish to install XP on an IDE drive attached to a Jmicron controller on my Abit IP35 Pro - the IDE disc is fully accessible from Vista. Also, the IDE HDD was in a backup PC with Vista & XP installed on it prior to this exercise.

So, I go to install XP on the IDE drive by the usual route and I am prompted for the location that I wish to install XP into. I select the IDE drive, delete the existing partition and create a new partition ... the windows files load and the machine reboots. Now it hangs at the boot loader bit with a garbled screen without saying anything about missing ntldr etc ... so I can't install XP on that IDE hard drive. I have also tried the Jmicron drivers at the F6 prompt but they are only for raid I believe and it made no difference.

To get the vista loader back I simply do a repair from the vista cd. In vista I can see the xp files on the IDE disk but I can't seem to be able to use it as a boot disk!

Any ideas?
 
Sorry -I meant that if it was only for raid then no loss but if it was supposed to be for non-raid also then its not working as intended ...

Either way, it did not work ;)
 
Unplug the SATA drive during the install, it sounds like XP is reading it as disk0 and putting the boot files on there. Not sure how you would then get the Vista boot manager to see the XP install once you reconnect the SATA drive though.
 
Sounds like a plan to me! If necessary I'll install a linux loader. But I'll need to hone up on my LILO skills a bit first though.

Last time I used LILO it had a Win 3.11 for workgroups entry in there IIRC :D
 
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