Yet another Seagate, Failed & replaced

[gary4gar]

Hi digitans,
I purchased a Seagate ST380817AS 80 GB SATA-I on may 05, it failed on june 06 & then replaced it with a Certified Repaired HDD. then again recently 20 days back. it failed again, this time i ensured i got a new drive

Damm this Seagate:x

so i got a 7200.10 SATA-II drive but i tried installing Windows xp on it but it failed. www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=809a4d4b57cb0110VgnVCM100000f5 ee0a0aRCRD&locale=en-US

so please help me install windows xp

[Charan]

what error are you getting?

[gary4gar]

what error are you getting?
hardware not found :S

my mobo is: MSI k8mm-v

[techtronic]

@gary4gar - When I browsed the MSI Site for your MB's Tech Specs, it indicates RAID 0 & RAID 1 support. Try disabling the Onboard RAID Controller and then try to install Windows XP. Update me after trying this.And regarding Seagate SATA Drives, I had a bad experience of 4 of my newly replaced HDDs getting bad sectors as early as 10-15 days.;)

[gary4gar]

@gary4gar - When I browsed the MSI Site for your MB's Tech Specs, it indicates RAID 0 & RAID 1 support. Try disabling the Onboard RAID Controller and then try to install Windows XP. Update me after trying this.And regarding Seagate SATA Drives, I had a bad experience of 4 of my newly replaced HDDs getting bad sectors as early as 10-15 days.;)

okay :)

[gary4gar]

there is no option to disable Onboard RAID Controller, however i tried disable Onboard SATA Controller but this didn't help:|

I think i need to integrate SATA drive in Xp

[prasad_den]

^^ YEp.. ypu need to either do that or disable AHCI support for SATA in your BIOS..!

[phreak0ut]

Try to find which SATA controller is on the HD. Based on that, you can integrate the drive for your Windows. I have been doing that all evening yesterday :D

[gary4gar]

^^^
how to find?

[techtronic]

[/URL][URL]http://www.richandstephsipe.com/wordpress/2005/05/19/how-to-install-windows-xp-on-sata-ii-hard-drive-on-ga-k8n-motherboard/ (http://www.richandstephsipe.com/wordpress/2005/05/19/how-to-install-windows-xp-on-sata-ii-hard-drive-on-ga-k8n-motherboard/)

This would help you with your installation ;) although I do not know what motherboard are you using.

[gary4gar]

but how do i slipstream?, no windows here:|

[prasad_den]

Then a floppy drive would be a better option..! Did you try disabling AHCI? It should work that way, but you'll end up losing the advantages of SATA.. which are negligible in any case...!