Strange problem installing XP

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I'm trying to install XP Pro onto a 250GB Hitachi SATA drive.
I load the Si3112 drivers from floppy during setup by pressing F6, format the HDD and start setup. When XP has finishes copying files and reboots it does not recognise the HDD and hangs on the "Press any key to boot from CD" screen. When the PC is booting the HDD is seen on the BIOS screen but if I enter the BIOS and look under boot devices it is not there.
I am using a silicon Image SATA PCI Card and if I boot into Vista on the same PC I can see my 250GB Hitachi
Any help appreciated
Brian
 
If your XP disk includes SP2, then you don't need to install the drivers off the diskette.

Also, with some systems that have RAID, you have to tell the system that you only have a single array.. I had this with my Asus.. but as Dr Evil says, make sure you are booting in the correct sequence.. When the system has finished the install and reboots, take the install disk out.
 
The boot sequence is CD-HDD. i must say however i did not remove the floppy from the drive so I will give that a go. Admiraa huddy i will try telling the BIOS it is a single SATA drive
 
Brian Stuart said:
The boot sequence is CD-HDD. i must say however i did not remove the floppy from the drive so I will give that a go. Admiraa huddy i will try telling the BIOS it is a single SATA drive

It's not in the BIOS.. when you boot you get another option to enter RAID utility/BIOS which is not the same.. I think it's F4 but it's just after the initial POST... that is of course you have a RAID mobo.
 
I pressed F4 and it is set for a single drive I really cannot understand what is causing this. The drive was checked on another PC and windows installed OK
 
Is there an option to boot from anything else other then HDD? Also get HDD as first boot device.
 
See if you can get your hands on a bootable floopy and see if you can get to the disk from DOS. If you can check then if your system files are on the primary partition.

Can you tell me what options you have under the RAID Bios..

Thanks
 
The options in the RAID BIOS are
Create RAID set
Delete RAID set
Rebuild mirrored set
Resolve conficts
Low Level Format
The Hitachi drive is showing on this screen as 0PM with nothing on 1SM

I can get into the via Computer in Vista and the Windows setup files are on the disk
This is getting annoying :confused:
 
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