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Slow Slow XP Install and run
Check the BIOS to be sure its set to boot from the USB drive before the IDE, or SATA/SCSI drives. Then, set the BIOS to boot from the CD, first. Put the install disk in the CD/DVD drive, and point the installer at the USB drive, when the install program starts. Read the instructions, as there offered,

DMI memory pool errors. HELP! Update - new problem.
Someone Else a...@b.com comp sys ibm pc hardware misc Just as in NT and 2000, to install XP on hardware where Windows doesn't have an included driver, you must hit F6 But I assume this only refers to the IDE drives, and not the SATA drives. I tried changing this over, and put the DVD drive on the Secondary master,

SATA Dvd drive install freeze with Vista
When I try to install WVista home premium, I get the error message "a required cd/dvd device driver is missing..." I have a brand new system that I set up myself, new Plextor 755SA sata hard drive, WD Sata hard drive, Intel 975xBX2 mobo. All hardware is working. Tried putting in the dvd/HD install disks but no

Tried to install 2007 spring from a sata dvd drive
You have to install from a bootable CD, not from within x32. When you are installing with the DVD drive listed as first in boot sequence, you will probably see on the bottom of the (I also have one IDE HD and 3 SATA drives). The motherboard I have is an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium and has the lastest BIOS update 1005.

Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe - HD SATA install
Have got Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 mobo, Maxtor 6Y160M0 SATA HD, Philips PCRW1208 & LG GSA 4081B DVD writer. Previously all was well running Windows XP pro with SP2 on a 40gb Samsung HD. Since upgrading to the SATA drive have had various problems. This was a clean install with a slipstreamed SP2 CD.

Cannot use DVD drives in vista
What interface (IDE, SATA...)? Are C: and D: different partitions on a single HD, or separate physical drives? Are you using the native dual-boot system built into Jumpers are a type of electrical switches on a hard drive or DVD drive. One or more rows of pins are lined up so that a small (maybe 1/4" square,

SATA - PATA Hard drive issues
Bios and device manager indicate it has a SATA hard drive. My old work PC has a 1 year old 80 gig drive I would like to put in the new one, on the same cable as the SATA HD, leaving the other port for the existing CD burner and a future DVD burner on the same cable. Will the 1 year old EIDE Ultra ATA/133 drive work

probs with win xp and sata hd
Secondly you will need a copy of the SATA drivers for XP that you can access at the beginning of the XP install. Most people put them on a floppy, but I think you can also have them stored on a hard drive or CD is you have a second CD/DVD drive. At the beginning of the install, Windows will ask if you want to

Vista installation trouble, help please
Rich Barry rba...@NOTsocal.rr.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Are you clicking on F6 and installing the SATA driver for your hard drive? used it flawlessly to install from boot on my other system (amd 2500+, asus kt400, geforce 4 ti4800, wd 80 gig ide, sb audigy platnium, cd burner and dvd drive

SuSE 9.3 - I've lost my DVD drive - urgent!
I am using: An MSI 865PE NEO2-LS Motherboard A P4 2.6C HT with 800fsb 512 MB Kingston Dual Channel DDR A Seagate Barracuda 80gb SATA HD A Nvidia Geforce2 MX-400 64mb AGP And an Artec 4x2.4x16 DVD+R I have tried disabling the SATA altogether and using this old beat up MAxtor 2 gig drive.. SAme errors.

Problems with blank CD/DVD & slow boot up
Never mind, it doesn't matter. hdc is the first drive on the second ide controller, which on your system contains the cdrom drive. hdd is the second drive on the second controller which on your system contains the dvd drive. hde and hdf are the first and second drives on the third ide controller-- the new one you

installation XP professional SP3, SATA driver installation
Which are IDE and which are SATA. THOMAS KOLAKOWSKI wrote: I have an ASUS K8N-VM with 1Gig Ram and Athlon64 3000+, GeForce 7300 GS video card. It says the DVD Drive = D:. In Win32 the 8gig=C:, 13gig = D: and 80gig=E: and the DVD = F: The installation program would not install until I reformated my old C: and D:

Slow Slow XP Install and run
You do not need to format your hard drive before installing like older OS's required. When it writes Vista onto your hard drive all of your old data will pc 4000 ddr ram 1 sata 80 gig being removed wiped and used for backups and other storage 1 160 gig sata hd..will be installing 2nd 160 gig sata hd using raid

2nd hard drive
In both cases her computer would just hangup with a black screen after selecting the install option. Have you tried to add the boot options "pci=nomsi irqpoll noapic acpi=off"? That was needed on my machine. The machine is an AMD_64 +4800 x2 with one sata hd and sata dvd-writer drive. Which Chipset? AMD 690G?

ide disk not found on SATA port
We've only now discovered that the board had 1 IDE port and he only has an ATA HD plus a dvd drive and cd burner. So, he bought a IDE to SATA adaptor so he Check his motherboard user's guide to see if it's necessary to install SATA drivers. As Shenan has indicated, it would be helpful to know the make/model of

SATA - PATA Hard drive issues
RonK b...@home.com alt comp periphs mainboard asus You can use all your drives but you need to get an ata to sata adapter. FLOPPY ~~~ Teac 1.44 IDE 1A ~~~ Pioneer DVD Drive IDE 1B ~~~ HP CD R/W IDE 2A ~~~ 40 Gig HD w/ XP & all my current file IDE 2B ~~~ Zip 250 RAID A ~~~ ATA 133 60 Gig HD RAID B ~~~ ATA 133 60

Install Help Please
Rather, one has to install with kernel 2.4, _then_ upgrade the kernel. This is so because, under 2.6, SATA is seen as SCSI, and somehow this makes the install program not see the IDE CD drive it is being installed from. Worked here just fine: SATA disk and PATA dvd drive, installing sarge with linux-2.6 2) Booting

Xp Refuses to install
Connect the DVD drive as master to the primary IDE channel and the sata to port A/0 (not b) 3. in the bius, hit control-f1 to get advanced mode 4. set the sata mode to manual, serial ata 0 (not auto, not remap to ide) (you will reboot and see cdrom on device 0 master and the HD on device 2 master.

new install of xp pro causes my computer to hang
PC posts, HD detects, memory detects, and DVD drive detects. So when I proceded to install Windows everything goes well. Boot to CD-ROM and blue screen comes Hard drives are both IDE and I have both disabled and enabled the auto SATA controller in the bios. Any idea what could be the problem? Hard drive is on

Cannot dual boot - WinXP64 Pro doesn't see Win32 HD
giusepped...@uol.com.br novell support novell-linux-desktop install Download SLED10 (EVAL) My configuration Motherboard Ga-965P-DQ6 chipset 965P 2 HD sata II don't work becouse don't recognize cd or dvd ide any idea for solution this problem ? regard Giuseppe.