S
Stone Free
Hi,
It has taken a long time for me to setup my Diamondmax 10
200GB 6B200M0 drive with windows.
I am worried about hard disk corruption and why the
Windows XP with SP2 installation disk still needed SATA
dribers.
I have an A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 board with the latest 1008
Bios as found on the asus site.
I had heared that if you install windows from a disk with
SP2 that you would not need to have a floppy with the
drivers on it.
I used to have a PATA drive as the boot drive, I removed
its power cable whilst installing the SATA drive.
First I slipstreamed my "XP Home Upgrade with SP1" disk
with service pack 2 using the autostreamer program.
The first thing that happened it that when booting from
the CDROM that the message saying press F6 to load any
additional drivers was displayed. I ignored this but
when the text mode setup part completed it said that it
had detected no drives.
I then rebooted with my PATA disk connected, and the SATA
one with its data cable disconnected. I then downloaded
the latest driver from the ASUS site which is 1.00.22 and
put them on a floppy, and swapped everything back.
This time I provided the floppy after pressing F6 the
drive was then recognized but when it had completed the
first stage and restarted it would not boot. Tried
several times nothing, then tried my original disk and it
booted successfully. I then made a slipsteamed SP2 disk
manually.
Unfortunately this disk still requires the drivers on a
floppy. This time however the hard disk did boot up and
the rest of the windows setup completed.
I asked windows to update the SATA Raid driver and it has
now upgraded it to 1.00.51.
I have not yet installed the lastest NForce UDP or my
Radeon 9500Pro graphic drivers yet.
I am still worried about data corruption are the 1.00.22
drivers OK or should I start again with the 1.00.51
drivers?
P.S I expect the astonishing 3 seconds boot to windows
time is only temporary until I install all the other
drivers that are needed (once it finally decides to boot,
during installation of windows I kept having to power off
completely otherwise it might not boot)
Peter
It has taken a long time for me to setup my Diamondmax 10
200GB 6B200M0 drive with windows.
I am worried about hard disk corruption and why the
Windows XP with SP2 installation disk still needed SATA
dribers.
I have an A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 board with the latest 1008
Bios as found on the asus site.
I had heared that if you install windows from a disk with
SP2 that you would not need to have a floppy with the
drivers on it.
I used to have a PATA drive as the boot drive, I removed
its power cable whilst installing the SATA drive.
First I slipstreamed my "XP Home Upgrade with SP1" disk
with service pack 2 using the autostreamer program.
The first thing that happened it that when booting from
the CDROM that the message saying press F6 to load any
additional drivers was displayed. I ignored this but
when the text mode setup part completed it said that it
had detected no drives.
I then rebooted with my PATA disk connected, and the SATA
one with its data cable disconnected. I then downloaded
the latest driver from the ASUS site which is 1.00.22 and
put them on a floppy, and swapped everything back.
This time I provided the floppy after pressing F6 the
drive was then recognized but when it had completed the
first stage and restarted it would not boot. Tried
several times nothing, then tried my original disk and it
booted successfully. I then made a slipsteamed SP2 disk
manually.
Unfortunately this disk still requires the drivers on a
floppy. This time however the hard disk did boot up and
the rest of the windows setup completed.
I asked windows to update the SATA Raid driver and it has
now upgraded it to 1.00.51.
I have not yet installed the lastest NForce UDP or my
Radeon 9500Pro graphic drivers yet.
I am still worried about data corruption are the 1.00.22
drivers OK or should I start again with the 1.00.51
drivers?
P.S I expect the astonishing 3 seconds boot to windows
time is only temporary until I install all the other
drivers that are needed (once it finally decides to boot,
during installation of windows I kept having to power off
completely otherwise it might not boot)
Peter