paul_m Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 I just bought a mostly complete system (- the hard drives)from my buddy. And I went to install a new Sata hard drive in the system and the bios would not see the drive. Could I have a bad cable or is the motherboard bad? I'm using a double cable for both power and the regular conection.
paul_m Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 Need Help Please I'm trying to install Win XP on a brand new 640 GB Hard Drive. And I used the quick install and regular to load the software. (The regular install did nothing) I get a Black screen after the computer restarts and it says "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuels for additional information." I've had Windows XP installed on this system before but on a old hard drive that quit. Any reccomendations?
maynardvdm Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Hi Have a look here: Error message: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem" Do you have only the one harddrive in the pc? Have you formatted the disk when you installed Windows? We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. RaidMax Smilodon Gaming Case | Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H M/B | Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.4GHz | 8GB Corsair RAM | Nvidia GTX550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 | Corsair 800w PSU Register for FREE >>here<< | If we have helped you, please consider a donation >>here<< SAS | MBAM | WinPatrol | Avira | ERUNT | Nvidia Drivers http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll57/mjsmileys/userbarnew4sec.gif
maynardvdm Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Hi What do you mean by double cable. There should be one cable for the power and another for the data. We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. RaidMax Smilodon Gaming Case | Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H M/B | Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.4GHz | 8GB Corsair RAM | Nvidia GTX550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 | Corsair 800w PSU Register for FREE >>here<< | If we have helped you, please consider a donation >>here<< SAS | MBAM | WinPatrol | Avira | ERUNT | Nvidia Drivers http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll57/mjsmileys/userbarnew4sec.gif
Tootech Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Also, is the drive IDE or SATA. quick install and regular to load the software Can you explain what you mean, I'm not sure. Thanks.
Tootech Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Can you post the drive and motherboard make/model please.
paul_m Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 I only have the one hard drive in there now. I have a second one that will only work as a slave. I formatted the new drive when I booted the Windows XP CD. Also it is a Sata drive.
paul_m Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 Yes it is a double cable. I think it might be a power issue. Should I buy a single cable for the data and try to use the power from the power supply? The drive is a White Label 640 GB and i'm running a LanParty 6300FX Motherboard.
Jelly Bean Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 (edited) Hey Paul the way I see this is either you need to install a SATA hard ware driver for the new HDD. Or load defaults in BIOS and set first boot to CD rom popin install disk save and exit. That you may have other SATA items connected in the wrong order. on the mainboard. It is realy possible that your gig HDD is way to big and should partition the hard drive into 2 or 3 smaller partitions then try install again. CD/DVD rom drive set incorrectly via jumper you should set CD rom as master. I have merged your threads as they about the same hard drive. Oh so you bought the HDD off a friend is it reconised in BIOS if you use a single data cable? Edited June 11, 2009 by Jelly Bean Rwy'n ceisio fy ngorau......................
paul_m Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 How would you recomend I set up the partiton? Sould I use 100 gig or more?
Jelly Bean Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Do a main partition 250 gig or less the other can be left as it is and formatted to storage. Rwy'n ceisio fy ngorau......................
paul_m Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 Sorry I put the wrong motherboard down earlyer. The correct one I'm having trouble with is a DFI Lanparty UT CFX3200-DR ATX AMD Motherboard
paul_m Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 Thanks for all the help. I will try it and hope it cures all the little problems.
Jelly Bean Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Your welcome Paul.I often find that a larger hard drive has issues with install so I usaly recommend a 250 gig or less hard drive or partition. Lets see if that works for you. Fingers crossed. Rwy'n ceisio fy ngorau......................
RandyL Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 It has been brought to my attention that you have also posted on another forum about your first two issues prior to posting here. Please do not do that as it wastes the valuable time of the volunteers on different forums to have them both working on the same problem at the same time. Further as noted on the other forum when you used a different cable your problem appeared fixed. So in fact there was no need to post exactly the same thing here. Had we known these things we could have avoided using our resources needlessly. In any case as near as I can tell by this thread and the ones on the other forum your first two issues appear to be resolved. Therefore to eliminate reduntant man hours here and there I'm going to close this thread We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.Get help with computer problems. Join Free PC Help here Donations are welcome. Read Here
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