seagate problems

tumbleweedldc · 10 Sep 2006 at 13:43

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

tumbleweedldc · 10 Sep 2006 at 16:17

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

tumbleweedldc · 10 Sep 2006 at 16:24

ok thanks i will download that and try that if all else fails never had a problem like this before with hard drives and windows strange

tumbleweedldc · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:31

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

tumbleweedldc · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:43

i have been loading the sata driver by pressing F6 i had to do that with my spinpoint and thats working fine but the seagate no chance