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RainCitySlicker
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October 29th, 2007 00:00
XPS400 & Large Drives
Hello,
I am trying to install a new 500GB HD in my XPS400 and it does not seem to be working. I updated the BIOS to vA07. I even unplugged my secondary 160GB HDD. The BIOS sees the drive as a Maxtor 500GB but when I boot off the XP CD, it goes up to the point where it says that setup is starting windows and then I get the blue screen of death saying there is some problem.
I then put my current 250GB drive back in and no issues. I can even get all the way through Windows setup.
The following is my config:
2x SATA DVD Burners
2x SATA HDDs (1x250GB & 1x160GB)
3GB RAM
Any ideas as to what the issue might be? The 500GB drive is brand new. I thought it might have been the drive so I exchanged it for another one and same deal.
Thanks
RainCitySlicker
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Posted October 29th, 2007 13:00
Did that with no luck. The weird thing is that I used the Maxtor MaxBlast software to clone my 250GB drive to the 500GB and the system boots into windows. But when I try to boot off the windows CD, the system blue screens...ThanksRainCitySlicker
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Posted October 29th, 2007 14:00
It is. I just had a thought and I think I know what it is. I am willing to bet it is a drive issue. I'll try to put the Intel SATA Driver on a floppy and see if that works. I am almost certain that this is it.Thanks- You may have already figured this out....If you have RAID ON in the BIOS, you'll get a BSOD during XP install because you need to load the RAID drivers during install. If you have a floppy drive, put the Intel RAID drivers on and then hit F6 during your XP setup to load them. Keep the floppy disk in your drive because setup will need them again. If you're doing a fresh install and you don't want to use RAID, you can set your BIOS to RAID Autodetect/ATA and you won't need to load the RAID drivers.Good luck!
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Posted October 29th, 2007 03:00