ryushinyama Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 Hey, so glad you guys exist. I don't have enough experience with SATA drives/drivers to help myself so hopefully someone here can!! I just put in two new WD 250GB SATAII drives(part numbers in sig). Well they show up on boot, in bios, in device manager, even in the safely remove hardware dialog!! But sad to say not in Windows Explorer :sad: I have booted from win xp pro disc and f6'ed it. (S)ed to specify new device, popped in the driver disc that came with my nF4 and it goes to work at it for 5 seconds or so then I get the following love letter: "File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at lin 1747 in d:xpsprtmbasebootsetupoemdisc.c. Press any key to continue" And this is where I am at. I have one of the same hard drives in and running that I put in a while back and this process worked fine. As far as I remember, that is. It says the error is in the d: so I am wondering if it is a problem with my XP cd? When I try to read the dfi driver floppy in windows it won't do it? (don't know if this is typical or not) So any help I can get at this point would be fan-freakin-tastic!! Thank you, thank you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTjik Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 What happens if you run "Add Hardware" from the control panel? Does the OS recognize the hard drives as not installed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryushinyama Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 They show up as installed and checking for issues brings the device is working properly message!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTjik Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 Maybe this will solve it: Control Panel / Computer Managment / (in the tree look for...) Disk Managment If you there can see the hard drives you could give them a drive letter and format them. Edit: about the above written, try first to formate and see if windows gives it a letter; probably need to reboot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTjik Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 Any update should be welcome. Have you solved the problem or not? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryushinyama Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 It had to be that simple!! I still have no idea why the xp boot method worked the first time and not this time but results are just that. You are hereby intitled to my first born! Created primary partition and formated unallocated space and I have a G:. Thank You, Thank you!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryushinyama Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 Sorry would have replied sooner but formatting the 250gb wasn't the fastest ordeal and I didn't want to say I was ready to eat the cookies before I had the milk! So I was downstairs playing zelda while it was going. Again Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTjik Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 Good to hear! It's frustrating and complicated until it's eventually solved. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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