Ok, this is really starting to cheese me off. I have an Abit KN8 Ultra mobo with an AMD 3700 san diego, now the computer recognises (in CMOS) all my drives, so i boot from the CD drive and begin installing windows - I format the master HDD in IDE port 1 - Windows copys itself to the harddrive and the computer reboots then "Detecting IDM drives" "Boot disk failure" "press ctrl+alt+del to restart" :down: WHY!!!
Are you using the RAID controller? Does the controller require drivers for the XP installation, F6 option when initially setting up Windows? What is your BIOS boot order set to?
i used the raid controller and it just said "boot disk failure" "insert system disk and press enter" though i might have not installed the raid drivers for xp, I'll give it a go. (just a little annoying cos i gotta keep using the ram fom this comp)
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ok i enabled raid and began installing windows with the XP raid drivers off the supplied floppy disk, windows copied to the harddrive, the computer restarted and guess wot......."boot disk failure"
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