gui_m Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 I've been installing fresh installations of windows for ages and I got this error for the first time. I have a HD with two partitions. Windows was installed on the primary partition and I went to reinstall windows. Under windows, I deleted the old partition and told windows to install on the new unpartitioned space. However, i get an error saying:To install windows on the partition you selected, Setup must write some startup files to the disk. However, this disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition.It then suggested me to delete a partition and create a new one. I did this, but I still get the same error.What should I do? Any help appreciated. Thanks.Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.--Zxian
Sonic Posted January 1, 2006 Posted January 1, 2006 You start installation from dos ? or original cdrom ?
gui_m Posted January 2, 2006 Author Posted January 2, 2006 (edited) It's a custom (nLite) Windows XP SP2 Pro installation. I am booting from the CD. The Hard Drive i'm trying to install the OS in is a Maxtor 250GB SATA drive, connected to the Promise RAID controller on my motherboard (ASUS P4c800-E Deluxe). Could it be drivers? Edited January 3, 2006 by gui_m
Andromeda43 Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 Yes...You need to have the drivers on a floppy, so when the install asks you to press F6 to install special drivers, you can do that. Most mobo driver CD's that support SATA will have a driver floppy building routine on the CD.Take a look at it.I hope that later versions of Windows will have SATA drivers already built into the Setup.exe program.Cheers Mates,Andromeda43
gui_m Posted January 2, 2006 Author Posted January 2, 2006 can i integrate SATA drivers into a nLite installation?
Sonic Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 yes of course search and read on the forum, section Devices Drivers ...gl & hf ^^
gui_m Posted January 3, 2006 Author Posted January 3, 2006 hmmm... I downloaded the Promise RAID drivers from ASUS website and integrated them into my nLite XP installation... however i still get the same error. If i press F6 during installation it asks for a diskette, but i don't have a floppy drive on my PC. I'm started to think that the problem is not to do with driver... what else could it be? Thanks.
blasto Posted January 3, 2006 Posted January 3, 2006 (edited) you didn't mentioned but I assume that you have your partion formatted properly, this doesn't sound like a sata driver problem.. Usually if the drive is sata and if you don't load the appropriate drives with F6 windows will be installed but do not work. You may find the sata driver from your manufacturers page (harddrive or mobo) copy the driver files to a floppy (find a floppy!!) and press F6 when it asks for.. Edited January 3, 2006 by blasto
spacesurfer Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 I'm started to think that the problem is not to do with driver... what else could it be?I integrated by RAID drivers with nLite and it wouldn't recognize my hard drive. I had to press F6 and that worked.I'm afraid you may have to try the floppy disk option. If not floppy, make a BartPE disk. It has a windows installer. It is easier to integrate your SATA/RAID/SCSI drivers in BartPE. Then run BartPE from CD and then install XP. Or you may consider UBCD4Win.For me, my drivers didn't integrate with nLite but work fine with BartPE.
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