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XP cd won't boot with Sata drive attached

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by kevin.moors

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Here is a nice one. I bought a new pc and installed it. First i tought everything was fine but there where some troubles with my XP intallation. I decided to start over again but there it whent really wrong. My new XP installation was corrupt and failed to boot at all. I tought, no problem, i'll just boot from CD and fixt the corrupt files. But unfortunatly after checking for the hardware configuration the screen goes black and stays that way. I messed around a bit but couldnt get it to boot up properly. Then i discovered it would boot up if i disconnected my SATA drive. And this happens to be just the disk i want to use.

Anyone know what the problem can be?

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by thechas

My first thought is that your SATA drive has a problem and is locking the system bus. If so, that also explains why you had problems with the original installation.

One way to check this, would be to boot up from the drive manufactures' utility disk and test the drive.

It might be as simple as a corrupt boot sector and all that is needed is to repartition and format the drive.

Chas

by kevin.moors

Thanks alot.

I used the manufacturers utility to scan the drive. Although it didnt show anything wrong i used it to do a low level format and after that it worked just fine.

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