Cannot load XP Pro on newly installed SATA drive

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I have an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard with an IDE hard drive and Win 2000.

I added a new Seagate SATA.
Used Disk Manager in Administrative Tools to format.
It is now H drive (NTFS).
OK now I try and load XP to it and during the install, on the blue
screen, it shows my existing "C" drive but the H drive is G and it will
not let me install on it. It shows it there as far as size goes.

In BIOS the only SATA settings are RAID and boot. I have tried these
setting both enabled and disabled to no avail.
In fact I didn't see the drive listed at all in BIOS under "boot
sequence" option.

I can move files on and off this drive while operating in Win2000 but I
can't install XP on it.

Any ideas?
 
I have an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard with an IDE hard drive and Win 2000.

I added a new Seagate SATA.
Used Disk Manager in Administrative Tools to format.
It is now H drive (NTFS).
OK now I try and load XP to it and during the install, on the blue
screen, it shows my existing "C" drive but the H drive is G and it will
not let me install on it. It shows it there as far as size goes.
Click to expand...

What error message do you see if you pick the G: partition to install
on?
In BIOS the only SATA settings are RAID and boot. I have tried these
setting both enabled and disabled to no avail.
In fact I didn't see the drive listed at all in BIOS under "boot
sequence" option.

I can move files on and off this drive while operating in Win2000 but I
can't install XP on it.
Click to expand...

Boot Menu / Serial ATA Boot: Enabled
Boot Menu / Serial ATA Raid: Disabled
Save Changes
Boot Menu / Hard Disk Drives Submenu: Move SATA drive to the top if
you want to boot from the drive.
 
Andy said:
Boot Menu / Serial ATA Boot: Enabled
Boot Menu / Serial ATA Raid: Disabled
Save Changes
Boot Menu / Hard Disk Drives Submenu: Move SATA drive to the top if
you want to boot from the drive.
Click to expand...

THANKS!!!
 
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