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Did a clean Xp Pro install on my PC last night. It took bloody ages, and in that i mean started install at 1830h and it was still going at about 2300h. Is this normal ?
I did get to all the bits i had to respond to quite swiftly, but alot of the time the PC is sat there with the hard drive light on, seeming like its hung. It is an Abit KT7A Raid motherboard, Athlon 1Ghz, 384Mb ram, 30 and 60gb IDE hard disks, Creative Sound 5.1 soundcard, 10/100mbit ethernet...
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I did get to all the bits i had to respond to quite swiftly, but alot of the time the PC is sat there with the hard drive light on, seeming like its hung. It is an Abit KT7A Raid motherboard, Athlon 1Ghz, 384Mb ram, 30 and 60gb IDE hard disks, Creative Sound 5.1 soundcard, 10/100mbit ethernet...
Dave
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how did you install it? did you boot it up from the cd or from a bootable floppy? check the BIOS if it is using LBA for the HDD.
i know booting up from a "self made" floppy with cdrom drivers and installing NT4/W2K/XP with d:\>i386\winnt.exe takes ages coz there's no smartdrv.
i know booting up from a "self made" floppy with cdrom drivers and installing NT4/W2K/XP with d:\>i386\winnt.exe takes ages coz there's no smartdrv.
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I had similar probs over the weekend, booting from floppy first or copying i386 directory onto c drive resulted in DOG slow install, found it quicker/easier to dig around for moody cd rom driver file and boot straight from that.
Much faster.
Much faster.
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Well one hdd (30 gig one) has 2 partitions, 5gb and 23gb ish. i had reformatted the 5gb partition to install there. the other 60gb disk is 1/2 full (one partition)
I think i know what the problem is though. I have the KT7a RAID mobo. When i went home at lunch the PC had finished the install and was booted. I made some changes to the display and language and had to reboot. After 35 mins i left it to come back to work and it still hadnt booted.
Could it be looking at the RAID interface and because it does not have the Abit RAID drivers installed yet, just hangs looking, and eventually times out ?
Next thing i will do when i get home is install the Abit RAID drivers and cross my fingers. Otherwise its format c: and back with Win2k Pro !
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I think i know what the problem is though. I have the KT7a RAID mobo. When i went home at lunch the PC had finished the install and was booted. I made some changes to the display and language and had to reboot. After 35 mins i left it to come back to work and it still hadnt booted.
Could it be looking at the RAID interface and because it does not have the Abit RAID drivers installed yet, just hangs looking, and eventually times out ?
Next thing i will do when i get home is install the Abit RAID drivers and cross my fingers. Otherwise its format c: and back with Win2k Pro !
Dave
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The mobo has 2 x standard IDE channels and 2 x RAID IDE channels.
I have the boot disk and the DVD-ROM connected to the standard IDE and the second disk and the CDRW connected to the RAID IDE channels. So its not installing to/from a RAID-connected device, but i was just wondering that if XP could see it, would it keep polling it, even if it didnt have a driver to load for it.
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[Edited by druddle - 6/18/2002 4:32:31 PM]
I have the boot disk and the DVD-ROM connected to the standard IDE and the second disk and the CDRW connected to the RAID IDE channels. So its not installing to/from a RAID-connected device, but i was just wondering that if XP could see it, would it keep polling it, even if it didnt have a driver to load for it.
Dave
[Edited by druddle - 6/18/2002 4:32:31 PM]
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You managed to install Win2000 on it before, so it must recognise the raid card. So you would expect the driver to be in XP too.
If not you need to press F6 early in the installation to specify the raid driver.
Have you checked if there's a raid driver for XP available.
If not you need to press F6 early in the installation to specify the raid driver.
Have you checked if there's a raid driver for XP available.
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