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Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP)

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dg1261 wrote:
> AL_n, I agree with mike's two posts:
> 
> "Sounds like a driver problem to me.  I'd bet it revolves around SATA
> native mode disabled." 
> 
> "If you use BIOS emulation to run a SATA drive in IDE mode, you probably
> have to set it either way before you do anything else and LEAVE IT THAT
> WAY FOREVER." 
> 
> 
> You installed XP without a SATA driver, so it isn't there when you
> change the BIOS setting.  The boot process is likely failing at the
> point where it switches from Real Mode to Protected Mode--i.e., the
> point where it switches from using the 16-bit BIOS driver to using a
> 32-bit Windows driver.  Because of the way it was installed, it's trying
> to boot with the wrong Windows driver. 
> 
> I think you need to reinstall XP with the BIOS already set to SATA mode.
>  (If it won't install that way, then I think the culprit is probably your 
> slipstreamed CD failing to use the SATA driver.) 
> 
> If you don't want to reinstall, see if this article helps:
> 
> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=294
> 
> I haven't tried this myself, but I've heard people claim the following 
> technique, derived from the above article, works: 
> 
> - leave the boot hard drive in IDE mode;
> 
> - temporarily add a second hard drive, configured in SATA mode;
> 
> - boot XP and let it install the SATA drivers for the second drive;
> 
> - shutdown, remove the extra drive, reset boot hard drive to SATA mode;
> 
> - boot XP in SATA mode.
> 
> I suppose the process of temporarily adding a second hard drive in SATA
> mode causes XP to install the proper driver for it, which XP can then
> subsequently use for itself after the BIOS setting is changed. 
> 
> 
Clever, but probably hard to do in most laptops.

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Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "AL_n" <fgdfgdfg@fghfghfg.com> - 2011-11-02 11:45 +0000
  Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 05:03 -0700
    Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "AL_n" <fgdfgdfg@fghfghfg.com> - 2011-11-02 12:38 +0000
      Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 11:51 -0300
  Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-11-02 07:18 -0500
    Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "AL_n" <fgdfgdfg@fghfghfg.com> - 2011-11-02 12:36 +0000
  Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 11:45 -0700
    Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) none <dgoodnow@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 13:28 -0700
    Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "AL_n" <fgdfgdfg@fghfghfg.com> - 2011-11-03 15:18 +0000
      Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 12:09 -0700
        Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "AL_n" <fgdfgdfg@fghfghfg.com> - 2011-11-03 22:27 +0000
          Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "AL_n" <fgdfgdfg@fghfghfg.com> - 2011-11-03 22:39 +0000
          Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 18:09 -0700
          Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2011-11-04 22:04 +0000
            Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 15:28 -0700
              Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2011-11-05 08:06 +0000
            Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 16:09 -0700
              Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-11-06 11:36 +1300
            Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) "AL_n" <fgdfgdfg@fghfghfg.com> - 2011-11-05 11:39 +0000
        Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-11-12 09:36 +0000
      Re: Cannot format hard drive (Win XP) Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 16:28 -0700

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