seagate problems

tumbleweedldc

tumbleweedldc

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Hi people
just purchased a seagate 250 gig 7200.10 sata 11 i have partitioned the drive 80 gig for windows and left the rest for data the drive is formated but when i try to install xp it all goes ok till the first reboot then it says error cant load os.
been trying for the last 4 hours no luck at all put my spinpoint sata back in no probs think i need help here
Thanks
 
sata driver. its not the drive its the board you have.

when installing windows as soon as it boots of the windows cd a blue screen appears and at the bottom it will ask "press F6 for some driver" just keep pressing F6 key. it will then give you the option to load a sata driver which you can get from your mobo manufacturers website.
 
Thanks for that will give it another try i did load the sata drivers of the floppy the first time give it another go with some other drivers i have just got of the asus site
 
also i have had this problem before on a few machines the master boot record needs to be cleared. fdisk /mbr does the trick then reboot the system.
also will need a bootable cd or floppy with the fdisk command on it. get the latest fdisk from microsoft website that has been updated for large drive support.
 
no thats not right. regardless of os install you need the sata driver UNLESS it has been slipstreamed into the installation cd of the os. and thats only custom done like i have done with my xp install disk.

you need the sata driver for your board. get the latest one. if you post your board details someone can check for you which is the latest and correct driver to use.
 
AHH only time i have not needed a sata driver is with this asrock board that i have, i can put the sata ports into ide mode and then it works fine. install windows then install sata drivers then go back into bios and set the ports back to sata mode.
 
You said the install goes ok until the first reboot when it says "error cant load os." That would say to me the SATA driver is not the problem, since you wouldn't be able to begin installation at all, if the hard drive wasn't detected by Windows.

What error is it specifically? Can you give the whole phrase?

Are you sure it isn't just cos of the boot order being set incorrectly?
 
no the boot order is fine the error says cant load operating system thats it then the pc just sits there just tried it without the partitions on the drive and its still the same,the drive works fine as a slave for files and apps driving me mad this one
 
its the sata driver, you can install the os fine without the driver but when it comes to the first restart thats when the drive will not boot the os. go ahead and try it.

this thread is getting pointless if you refuse to install the sata driver during the os install and keep blaming other things.
 
Was there a jumper on the drive to limit it to 120GB? Are you using a slipstreamed SP2 OS?

Judging by this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326676/EN-US/

I'd suggest firstly formatting the entire drive again using something like a Windows 98 book disk (use full format, not quick format) and then (format again using NTFS) partition the drive into 80GB sections (or enable the 120GB jumper).

I had a google and theres various things, like configuring the drive manually in the BIOS, setting Master instead of Cable Select jumper, blah blah, could keep you going for a year reading all those.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_20829132.html
http://whocares.de/archive/000682.php
 
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