XP SP2 with SATA install loops

[Breezy]

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

Edited August 6, 2009 by Breezy

[johnhc]

Breezy, yours is the first I have heard of IDE to SATA problem. Since I am unknowledgeable of Ghosting, I am at a loss to suggest anything. Fernando 1 is the driver expert around here and hopefully he will comment. You might consider PMing him if you don't hear or have success soon. Good luck, John.

[Fernando 1]

@ Breezy:

Questions:

1. Are you sure, that the SATA hdd of your Fujitsu-Siemens LIFEBOOK T4220 is running in AHCI Mode?

2. If yes, does it have the BIOS option to disable the AHCI Mode?

3. Which of the listed Intel SATA Controller(s) have you enabled while integrating the Intel textmode driver?

4. Why do you want to install XP ontop of an older and probably not AHCI supporting XP installation?

5. Which error message did you see, when you get the reboot loop? (Tip: You will get the entire error message, if you hit F8 while rebooting and choose the advanced option "Don't reboot at system failure".)

Edited August 7, 2009 by Fernando 1

[Breezy]

@ Breezy:

Questions:

1. Are you sure, that the SATA hdd of your Fujitsu-Siemens LIFEBOOK T4220 is running in AHCI Mode?

2. If yes, does it have the BIOS option to disable the AHCI Mode?

3. Which of the listed Intel SATA Controller(s) have you enabled while integrating the Intel textmode driver?

4. Why do you want to install XP ontop of an older and probably not AHCI supporting XP installation?

5. Which error message did you see, when you get the reboot loop? (Tip: You will get the entire error message, if you hit F8 while rebooting and choose the advanced option "Don't reboot at system failure".)

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.

[Fernando 1]

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

Any change of the hardware system is a good opportunity to do a fresh and clean OS install. This way you will get the best possible performance and 100% appropriate drivers.

The time you are losing by reinstalling your prefered software and tools is much less than the time you will lose within the next years by sticking with an old and fragmented registry. Furthermore you will be able to select more actual and maybe better driver and software versions than those you have used for the last 8 years.