claydog99

Am I doing something wrong?

Any tips or ideas I can try to get Winxp pro to recognize my SATA HD? Installed the drivers etc. Enabled it in bios. It starts the usual check list, runs through irq's etc. message to hit F4 to configure SCSI device and then shows the drive volume. This is where earlier I "ran" the config that now shows the JBOD choice in the BIOS. So anyway after showing the hd and volume and where you would normally see the first Winxp splash screen it pauses (black) for about 30 seconds then says, "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the sel

I built a comp with a sata hd and am trying to install winxp pro on it. it runs through as normal but when it reboots to complete the installation it just goes to "boot from cd" with or without the cd in. that is the only thing it will let you do. i know it's installed because when i try to install again it says there is already c:\windows do you want to continue? any ideas, please............ gigabyte k8n ultra sli amd 64 3200 cosair ram 1 gig 120 gb wd sata hd nvidia 6800 gt pci express vid card xp pro (trying)