Installing windows on sata disk attached to a8n

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  1. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    So I've just taken possession of a shiny new Samsung sata2 disk sp2504. So now we go through the rigmarole of installing windows. According to the asus manual this mobo should not need drivers to install windows to the sata channels so i tried that first. After the copy procedure i got an error "Error loading operating system" so i try the old method of hitting f6 after letup starts and try those drivers, same error. Any suggestions folks? I've even tried setting it to legacy mode sata1 to no avail
    This is why its taken me so long to go back to sata the last time i took me months to get windows to install then the bloody plug broke. Its never easy!

    the board is an a8n-sli (standard, no raid)
    and its windows 2000 I'm trying to install
    drive is as stated the new Samsung 250gig sata 2 sp2504 aka p120
     
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  2. BUFF

    BUFF What's a Dremel?

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    it shouldn't need drivers on nF4 for single SATA drives.
    Is the drive showing up in the BIOS (will show up as an IDE drive)?
     
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  3. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    yup shows up as sata disk1
     
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  4. BUFF

    BUFF What's a Dremel?

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    Boot priority?
    Even though you are running single drive do you have RAID enabled?
     
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  5. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    Sounds like your windows disk might be buggered. Have you another PC to test the HD in?

    This'll sound like a stupid question, but are you sure you've got the boot order right?
     
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    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    Yeah it was the only disk attached (made the mistake of formating the wrong disk once too often)

    Thanks for the help folks but i found it. In the bios there is an option can't remember what its called just now i'll edit this later with the exact answer just incase it helps any one else. But basicly you have to tell the bios to use large instead of auto.
     
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  7. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    LBA mode or access mode probably
     
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  8. zr_ox

    zr_ox Whooolapoook

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    You have probably plugged the drive cable into the wrong connector.

    Try moving the connector to SATA 1or 2 and it might just work. Sata 1 & 2 are set as master (boot) where ports 3 & 4 are slave and designed only for data disks.

    I think people normally plug there drives into ports 3 & 4 becuase they sit at the top.

    Good Luck :thumb:
     
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