Can't Install WinXP

[Wet Chicken]

We are trying to install Windows XP but it will not see our SATA hard drive. What would cause this and how should we go about fixing it?

Thanks.

 

[dai]

when you first start to install and it says to press f6 to install any 3rd party drivers are you popping in your floppy with the sata drivers

 

[Wet Chicken]

I tried that, but it only allows drivers from a floppy, and my drivers are on my motherboard CD, which I can't copy to a floppy

I went to the motherboard web site, but I didn't see a listing for just the SATA drivers. Guess I'll have to hunt them down some other way....

 

[dai]

go to the h/d manufacturers web site for them

 

[Wet Chicken]

OK good idea

Thanks dai

 

[Wet Chicken]

Put the drivers on the floppy. When I go to use it I get an error message saying txtsetup.oem could not be found. I don't know where it's getting that file name from, because it has nothing to do with my SATA drivers. It also doesn't give me the option to select setup.exe. So I don't know what I can do now, maybe look for some other kind of drivers

 

[dai]

what brand of drive

 

[Wet Chicken]

It is a 160 Gig Seagate Barracuda SATA drive, which you can see by clicking Here.

 

[dai]

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/sata_detect.html
check your manual ther must be a way to extract them from the m/b setup disk

 

[Wet Chicken]

There is, and those were the drivers that did not work yesterday

It just kept asking for that file txtsetup.oem file.

 

[dai]

http://www.tech-hints.com/oem.html

 

[Wet Chicken]

OK Thanks! We got it

BTW - I was on the phone today with Microsoft, and they told me that the problem I am having was caused from using Partiton Magic, which causes drive overlay

I'll never use Partition Magic again!

Anyway thanks for those other files