I have a pcMother asus m2n68, micro semprom 1250, disco de 160 gigas SATA with 1 gig of memory, I tell them that the other hard drive that came with the computer I think is sata 160, making everything right, the problem is that you installed a limited version of xp, and xp I have an old version is that you put xp and will not let me install, I get a poster that just tells me that I have the cd of xp is old, and that if I want to install the machine boot from the cdrom, ... well I do that .. I put the cd as first boot system reboot ,,,,... but nothing ... as if it did not take the cd, it goes directly to the windows to install on the 160 sata that brought the pc.

now clarified that during the installation delwin 98 in the disk reader 80gigas ide function as well, but when I install almost finishes, where to find the drives for the new hardware no longer takes the reader!

please ,anything else that might be?

greetings and thanks

Edited March 26, 200917 yr by drugomon

Welcome to the forum.

I suggest you first have your translation done by an other system or a friend so that your post becomes understandable.

SATA drives are not recognized by Win98SE unless the BIOS is set to compatibility (PATA) mode for those drives, however that may yield slow performance.

As for the 80GB drive install, when the Hardware Wizard pops up, just dismiss the dialog(s) (hit Cancel) until Windows finishes the boot sequence, then copy the driver kit(s) to the HDD, unzip where appropriate and install them manually or go to Control Panel > System, select the problematic device(s) and choose Update Driver.

To explain the above: Windows detects the new hardware early in the boot stage and pops up the Hardware Wizard before loading the CD-ROM driver, that is why you cannot "see" the optical drive while trying to install drivers from a CD/DVD.

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If the machine won't boot with the XP CD while you're sure the BIOS is set to boot from CD-ROM first, this can only mean one of the 2 things: either the CD is damaged or is not bootable. Try another bootable CD, verified on another machine, for confirmation.

Thanks submix8c; still missed the above bit first, though.

Edited March 31, 200917 yr by Drugwash

(Hope he/she comes back - Way to Go Drugwash! Good Analysis!)