Paul wrote:
> It ended up being the XP Pro disc I was using. Don't know why but I
> tried another one to install and it worked right away and things are
> fine. No SATA drivers needed.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Did the one that worked have either SP2 or SP3?

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> "Anna" <myname@myisp.net> wrote in message
> news:uEpbhe8WJHA.3808@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
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>> "Paul " <pcostanza@cox.net> wrote in message
>> news:3438E7E1-3A9C-4EFC-9ECA-87D55B02D986@microsoft.com...
>> I'm trying to install XP on a SATA rack drive and having problems.
>> I've disconnected all other hard drives, put in the XP disc and booted
>> up fine....it sees the XP disc and starts the setup process. It
>> continues to copy files and then has to do a reboot. Upon reboot, I
>> get the message, "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to
>> restart". Of course doing this just makes the same thing happen. The
>> disc is a 320 GB drive with a 45 gb OS partition that's formatted NTFS
>> and clean.
>> I've done the same process in other drives with Linux OS's and
>> Windows 7 beta with no problems and wonder why this XP install is not
>> working. The BIOS sees the SATA drive and even booting directly to the
>> drive doesn't work. I can put in any other drive in the rack and boot
>> directly to it with no problems.
>> Any ideas and am I even making sense?
>> TIA
>>
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>> "JS" <@> wrote in message news:egk5LI7WJHA.5476@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> During the install process there is a point where you can install
>> drivers (Press F6).
>> Did you install the SATA drivers?
>> JS
>> http://www.pagestart.com
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>> "Paul " <pcostanza@cox.net> wrote in message
>> news:C118E474-166D-49EF-890F-325692407ADD@microsoft.com...
>> No, did not but I've never had to before.....I'll give that a go and
>> see if it works. I'll feel awfully stupid if that's the case.
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> Paul:
>> I really don't think this is a SATA controller driver issue since
>> you've indicated you're able to at least begin the XP OS setup
>> process. If it *was* a SATA driver issue you would have rec'd a
>> message that Setup could not detect a HDD at the very beginning of the
>> setup process and you would have had to abort at that point.
>>
>> I assume the "SATA rack drive" you're referring to is a removable HDD
>> mobile rack affair, right?
>>
>> You're absolutely sure the problem SATA HDD has been correctly
>> installed in the removable tray of the rack? We'll assume it is since
>> you say there's no problem with another HDD in the same mobile rack.
>>
>> And you've also indicated that you've installed the problem disk as an
>> internal HDD but that you still get that same error message during the
>> XP install, right?
>>
>> You've indicated that the problem HDD is multi-partitioned. How did
>> you accomplish that? Through Disk Management using your other boot drive?
>>
>> What happens if you install the problem HDD as a secondary HDD in your
>> system, using your other HDD as the boot drive and accessing Disk
>> Management? The secondary HDD is seen OK? If so, think it might be
>> wise to delete all partitions and then start over with trying a fresh
>> install of the OS with the disk in its mobile rack and again, if no go
>> there, try connecting it again internally?
>>
>> Although it doesn't sound like a defective HDD problem it might still
>> be a good idea to check out the disk with a HDD diagnostic utility
>> from the disk's manuf.
>> Anna
>>