PoloDude Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 (edited) So this is my problem, I have 3 hdd, 2 ata's, 1 sata, my sata is a data disk and the ata's are for windows (master) and linux (slave)When I want to install windows xp (clean boot-install) it asks me where to install, so I want to chose my first hdd (created 1 partition), but it says it needs to put some files on my other (slave) hdd..The problem is that when I create a partition it doesn't reserve the 8Mb for MBR I think :sAnyone know how to solve this?Thx! Edited August 21, 2005 by PoloDude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 disconect the drives u dont wanna install windows. and then try installing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoloDude Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 That didn't work either, guess there was something wrong with the hdd itself, so I did a low-level format with a tool from my hdd manufacturer and the problem solved itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jcsanford Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 Try making sure that your dirve 0 IS set 'active' and drive 1 is NOT set active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoloDude Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Try making sure that your dirve 0 IS set 'active' and drive 1 is NOT set active.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>If there isn't any other drive connected it should do that by itself, guess the hdd was alterded somehow, anyway, it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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