I have just purchased a new sata hard drive. I've never had a problem with them before. But this time the Windows setup does not begin. Sometimes there is a dos screen which seems to hang on trying to detect a third drive. It detects the master and slave primary as CD ROM but hangs on the detecting a third drive (master).
I have not changed anything.
This is the second drive I've purchased recently as the last one had some fault with it (which it only displayed after the hour-long formatting process!)
Can anyone help? I've no money left to buy yet another :(
Details: Win XP Pro SP2 OS, Sata II Excelstor Jupiter 9250S HDD
Installing Windows XP on a SATA hard drive is not a straight-forward task as Windows XP does not recognize the SATA drive. In order to install operating systems such as Windows XP on SATA drives, the latest SATA drivers are required.Download SATA drivers for the motherboard from the website and integrate them with the XP installation CD using software such as nLite. SATA drivers can also be installed as third party drivers; you will be prompted during the installation process. Without proper SATA drivers, installing Windows XP on a SATA hard drive is not possible as SATA mode would have to be disabled in the BIOS to continue with the installation.
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Try to show all hidden files on you HD. Some of your files there might be inside the hidden directory.
Click computer icon then click organize then click folder and search option then clickview tab then tick show hidden files and folders then click ok.
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To configure the hard drive as a slave drive, you need to set a jumper on the hard drive to SL (slave)
The other jumper settings are MA (master) and CS (cable select).
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