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Thanks for chiming in Fernando running in AHCI mode there is a bios option for disabling AHCI. Trying it has not helped. I enabled all of them. I want to install XP tablet over XP Pro because I have 8 years of software installs, etc that I do not want to rebuild from the ground up The looping is pretty much over now. What was happening was that it was constantly rebooting from from the DVD even though it found and installed XP Tablet to a hard drive. I am now of the belief that my BlacX SATA USB drive might not be working correctly. It turns out that after a ghosting I have a LOT of drive errors. I'm just finding that out. Runing chkdsk it checks out OK, but if run chkdsk /p it reports errors, and now it's taking forever to run chkdsk /r. BTW the original drive was chkdsk'ed before the ghosting just to make sure it was clean.

It appears that here is my problem .. http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11184-0.h...ssageID=1970904 Apparently others have run into this when cloning an IDE drive to a SATA drive. Seems the SATA drivers are not in place before the cloning and so the drive is structured as an IDE layout during the clone process. Even reinstalling Windows with a slipstream that has SATA drivers doesn't seem to work. It seems that the most common way to do this is to install the drivers using F6 key at the beginning. I have no floppy though, only a DVD drive. My cloning software suggests loading the SATA drivers in Windows BEFORE I clone the IDE drive. It offers no advice on how to do this however. How could I possibly install SATA drivers without the requisite chipset, etc? And with a laptop I only have 1 drive choice. How messed up this is. This is a big problem and I can imagine that lots of people will be running into this as SATA drives become even more established. Do you have any other ideas? I will be trying to install the SATA drivers before cloning, like this article explains .. http://www.acronis.com/company/inpress/200...-trueimage.html

John Sorry I didn't reply .. I've been posting but I guess I missed your question which was ". Is your SATA drive set to AHCI mode in the BIOS?" The answer is yes, it is set to AHCI. What about the AV program needing to be removed to successfully ghost a drive? Have you heard of that before? BTW in my research Norton Ghost DID have problems ghosting from IDE to SATA, though I guess in later versions they fixed it ..

I used a program called EZ Gig 2 to ghost my drive images and I was able to actually get someone on the phone about it. He said IDE to SATA is fine BUT .. before ghosting I HAVE to UNINSTALL (not just turn it off) my antivirus software or else my new SATA drive won't boot. BTW, I use AVG but it doesn't matter .. according to these guys any AV program will have to be uninstalled. Does that sound right to you guys?

OK. It ran the full install BUT it still won't boot from the C drive. Now I THINK my problem is that I ghosted an IDE drive image to the SATA drive. Looking into that now ..

OK. It seems that if I skip the first repair option and choose to install Windows it will give me a choice to repair my existing Windows install. We'll see how that works ..

It seems that repair only gives me a dos prompt on the drive. It doesn't repair anything. Is this the way it's supposed to be? Also most of the folders, except for "windows" are "access denied".

I see a choice of partition to install to, and then a choice to format partitions, which I don't do, and I choose to install to the partition with Windows already installed. The last time I tried it actually came up and warned me about installing over Windows and how it can cause problems. That was the first ite I got that however. I'm going to try the repair option in nlite and see what that gives me next.

John Thanks for chiming in to help. I did try the automatic computer setting with no change. Also, the drivers I used are the same ones in this article .. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=107504 I used .. 32bit_Intel_textmode_driver_v8.9.0.1023_WHQL(2).zip and Intel_INF_Drivers_9111014_ready_for_nLite.rar The problem seems to be that the install copies files to an install folder then starts to reboot, and then cannot boot the hard drive so it reverts back to the CD boot and the install starts all over again. Any thoughts?

Here's the last one I tried. I've been trying out a variety of options, especially with the unattended settings, to no avail. I wouldn't get an error message. It would just text that Windows was restarting, like it's a normal part of the install. It seems the issue is that the SATA drivers would only work while the system was running from the install CD. After the restart it couldn't find the hard drive and asked me to touch a key to boot from the CD. I'm going thru all this just to keep from having to reload all my stuff from many years. I did this very thing for my last few PCs except that I had a real XP install CD and the disk drivers were always IDE drives. This time though I have the XP tablet edition (no real CD for that apparently) and I'm using a SATA drive. Oh that Windows was actually made to update, like Macs seem to be. All program files in a single folder .. reminds me of the simplicity of the DOS days .. sigh LAST_SESSION.INI

Hi I'm trying to move my hard drive setup (XP with SP2) to a new machine that has a SATA drive and a tablet. It's a Fujitsu T4220. To that end I ghosted my existing drive, with >100gb of programs to the new hd, then I'm creating a slipstream to reinstall XP tablet over the existing XP install on the ghosted disk. I created a simple slipstream with only the add'l SATA drivers and XP tablet edition. I also embedded the key from XP tablet in the slipstream. My problem is that it reads the slipstream, installs the textmode drivers, copies install files to a folder, then reboots. The reboots starts the whole process over. Any ideas on what or how many things I'm doing wrong? BTW, I read thru 8 sheets of posts and saw that many problems can be related to multiple nlite files so I started a new one each time.

Hi I'm trying to move my hard drive setup (XP with SP2) to a new machine that has a SATA drive and a tablet. It's a Fujitsu T4220. To that end I ghosted my existing drive, with >100gb of programs to the new hd, then I'm creating a slipstream to reinstall XP tablet over the existing XP install on the ghosted disk. I created a simple slipstream with only the add'l SATA drivers and XP tablet edition. I also embedded the key from XP tablet in the slipstream. My problem is that it reads the slipstream, installs the textmode drivers, copies install files to a folder, then reboots. The reboots starts the whole process over. Any ideas on what or how many things I'm doing wrong? BTW, I read thru 8 sheets of posts and saw that many problems can be related to multiple nlite files so I started a new one each time.