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New windows XP install with 2 sata drives. Disk failure upon reboot?
After 4 installs and 4 hours of troubleshooting, I need some help. Company got a new system with 2 Seagate 250g sata drives.
Disk 1 and 2 set up and verified on controller 1 and 2. DVD/RW and old Maxtor drive set up on IDE (DVD (master), Maxtor (slave). Bios is enabled for sata (w/o raid) All drives are recognized by the bios and are set to boot in the following order: DVD drive, Sata1.
Installed Windows XP and their version was too old to recognize past the 130g barrier. Used a newer version with SP2 and extras, drive size became correct.
Install runs perfectly, installed new mb drivers (sata, nic, sm bus and video). Upon 1st reboot, I get "disk boot failure, insert system disk". Tried installing with just xp default drivers, same error. Tried booting with just one sata drive, just 2 sata drives and the same error.
I tried installing 3rd party sata drivers during install, but of course you need a floppy drive which we don't have anymore. As xp and the bios correctly sees all the drives and boots initally, I don't think that's the issue.
Any ideas?? Thank you
System:
AMD 3800
2 g of RAM
2 250g Seagate HD's
LG DVD/RW
Asus M2-Ne mb w/Nvidia chipset