Hi guys. I have a problem with an attempted XP installation. The two relevant parts of this equation are:
The motherboard: MSI n1996
The hard disk: Maxtor 6Y080P0 YAR41BW0 80GB IDE
To all intents and purposes the system appears to be working fine: it powers up and posts correctly. The hard disk was working fine in one of my other machines prior to being moved into this system. The system finds the HDD during the post check.
The POST reports:
Primary Master is the AOPEN DVD drive
Secondary Slave is the Maxtor HDD.
The POST screen also reports floppy disk(s) fail(40) but this is because the floppy is not attached.
When I boot from the XP disk in the DVD drive it finds the HDD, even correctly naming the partition defined on the previous machine. I choose install windows, it reformats and begins copying the core files. No problems so far???
Then the system reboots and it fails, again reporting the error ???Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware manuals for additional information.???
If I then power the machine down and reboot it, the windows XP disk goes back into installation mode as if it has not found the beginnings of its previous installation. Again, it will find the existence of the partition but describes the partition as being empty??? (77574MB free of 78152MB).
Any suggestions would be appreciated because this has me stumped.
