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Jimmy1983

Jimmy1983

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Trying to re-install XP Pro on my fathers PC, and apon booting into the windows setup, this appears.

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then

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Now on my old PC, I didnt get this message come up. My dads PC does have X2 HDD's the back-up has been disconnected and the main one with a current install off XP on it is connected and working ok when booting into windows.
 
Its probably just needing the hard drive controller drivers. You'll need a floppy with them on, then just hit F6 when prompted.
 
modo77 said:
Its probably just needing the hard drive controller drivers. You'll need a floppy with them on, then just hit F6 when prompted.
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Ive heard off this method before, his PC does have a floppy drive. Can you explain in a bit more detail what I need to do please?
 
He should have some drivers which came with the motherboard for the controller, or you might need to get them from the motherboard manufactures site.
Once you have them, stick them on floppy.
Start the install off, and on the first screen when it says its loading you'll have an option at the bottom "to install 3rd party drivers press F6".
Press f6 and wait a minute or two and you'll be prompted to insert a floppy, the setup should then detect the required drivers off the disk. It will then pickup the hard drives.

It's been a while but I think thats it :)
 
Butters said:
Or, as most motherboard manufacturers are doing now, enter the BIOS and change the HDD mode from SATA to Legacy IDE or similar
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And then after the install change it back again?


Here is the spec off his PC, its over a year old so not sure I can do as you sugguested or not?

INTEL P4 775 5.3Ghz Power System
NEW 775Pin smithfield Core(2x2.66ghz) with 2x1mb L2 cache
INTEL P4 775 PIN CPU PENTIUM D
TOP END CPU WITH HYPER THREADING TECHNOLOGY
THE VERY LATEST & MOST POWERFUL IN ITS CLASS

MOTHERBOARD
775Twins-HDTV

- LGA 775 for Intel® Dual Core Pentium® XE and Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D processor
- FSB 1066/800/533 MHz
- Supports EM64T CPU
- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
- Supports United Overclocking Technology

ASRock motherboard
 
No it won't. If you change to Legacy IDE it will allow XP to install and the mobo drivers will then allow the SATA controllers to take over and will advise you to change them back in the BIOS after
 
Cheers for the help, installed all ok. Only queery is all the programs are still on the C drive even though I re-installed a fresh copy off XP on to it :S
 
If you want it blank you would have to delete the c: partition and recreate it (do this on the blue setup screen as above). This will remove all data on it though!
 
Duke said:
If you want it blank you would have to delete the c: partition and recreate it (do this on the blue setup screen as above). This will remove all data on it though!
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Yer iam sure I did that. The HDD has about 4 partition, I selected C then deleted C then installed....odd
 
Butters said:
No it won't. If you change to Legacy IDE it will allow XP to install and the mobo drivers will then allow the SATA controllers to take over and will advise you to change them back in the BIOS after
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That will cause XP to blue screen. At least it did with my motherboard.
 
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