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Sata 2 HDD issues. "edited"
"Hi all. I'm having real issues here. I have just been given an XPS 600 tower minus the HDD. I bought a WD 500GB HDD and have put it in. For the last two weeks I have been trying to install windows XP Home, Media, Pro and Corp. Guess what screen I'm getting. Yup there's no HDD acording to the install. It's on the BIOS and is set to ON. I think I have downloaded just about every diskette maker on the Dell site and even one on the nVidia site. Nothing at all. I just keep getting the insert your system-support disk. Can any of you guys out there help? I reduced the HDD capacity too as some site somewhere in the millions I've trawled said that XP doesn't like a big HDD? As I say though, I have downloaded just about all of the diskette drivers from Dell and even one from nVidia. Still not getting any joy.
Thanks in advance.
Cris"
Thanks in advance.
Cris"
For clarification: XP does not have SATA drivers built into the installation media.
Some have used a slipstream method of installing the SATA drivers to a WinXP installation, yet I have had no hands-on experience with this. I am sure others here have, and hope they chime in.
Hi guys, ok I put the HDD on this system and uploaded these drivers and installed windows no problem. I downloaded the drivers from Dell and have now come across a new problem. I'm now getting the message "file textsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at line 1747 in d:\xpsp\base\boot\setup\owmdisk.c."
Any ideas?
I can't install nLite on this system for some strange reason. I've tried several times now. Shame really as that seems the best route to take.
Cheers
Cris
tasone
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Posted October 15th, 2008 08:00
hello
you need the sata drivers from dell.
and when you try and install the os, you get a option to press a key (F2, i think it is) and this is when you put the sata driver disk in.
without this it is not going to work
andy