fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 i got my new mobo and cpu yesterday install both of them and when i try to install a os i start hitiing some speed bumps. at first when i tried to install vista i would get a can not rind a cdd/dvd device driver to fix that i switched dvd drives it fixed that. but then i hit a diffrent speed bump when i after i choose what disk i want to install to i get an error at the end saying that vista could not update the boot configration. so i try to reinstall now and i get a your system hardware may not support booting to this drive please check bios to see if the controler is enabled. i try to select a drive and windows says it can not find a volume that meets its critera So i say ok back to xp but i am hiting even more speed bumps when i get to the screen to choose what drive i would like i install to i try my maxtor 320 gig setup says that windows needs to install to a partiton, so i try to install to the outher disk it installs to that disk but whne i try to boot to it i get a windows is missing a file error hal.something file and when i install xp to the 320 maxtor drive i get a disk read error when i try to boot to it mobo is a gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3P cpu is 9600 phonom be first drive is a ide 320 gig maxtor 2nd drive is a 250 gig wd sata drive could it be that my both my harddrives just went bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 I know xp has problems with sata drives. Vista may be the same ?? Unsure about that. May try to reinstall if you can the motherboard drivers that should of come on a disk with the new mobo. You also may try the cd that came with your harddrives to format them before you try the install? It is possible you could have a bad harddive. Maybe just unhook one of the two drives, hopefully you have one thats not sata and is ide. Just hook up one ide drive and try your install from that. Just trying to throw you a few ideas that may help. Its to bad you can not get xp with sata drivers already pre installed ya know. That would probally be the way to go. To bad its not possible if ya know what im saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 And make sure the second drive is set to slave with the jumpers. And the main one to primary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 i do have a spare 40 gig ide drive so i pluged that in and tryed to install vista to it everything went well till i tryed to boot to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 And make sure the second drive is set to slave with the jumpers. And the main one to primary. have tryed seting them as master/slave also have tryed cs for both drives i only have one ide channle and the maxtor drive is on it with my dvd drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 You can do what I usually do. I run Darik's Boot & Nuke first. This will eraser the whole harddrive of all the partition on the harddrive. Then install Vista. I have never had any problems when I did it this way. http://www.dban.org/ You can also use a partition manager on the harddrive first. I use Cute Partition Manager. Burn it to a cd ,then boot the computer using the disk and eraser all of the existing partition making one big partition. I then make at lease two partition. One for windows [ min of 50 GB for Vista ] one for my games and any other downloads. http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Cute-Partition-Manager.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 i have hiren's boot disk so i poped that in and i loaded eather partition magic or partition manger i dont rember but i got an error on disk 0 partition 1 but it said it repaired the error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 I always use Darik's Boot & Nuke first and never have had problems either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 Try using Darik's boot and nuke. This wiill eraser the whole drives. It will take some time to work. Just let it run, at first it will write over the whole drives twice, then it will blank the whole drives. It will take at lease two hours to compete. It may take longer, the size of the harddrives and the speed of the computer will make a different in how long it take to finish. Edit - To use Darik's boot and nuke you will have to downloads first/burn it to a CD/ then set the BIOS to use the CD as the first boot device, then boot the computer using the disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 allright i also tryed to make a logical partition onm y drive to install to it let me install this time but when i tryed to boot to it i got a disk boot fauler i downloaded darik's boot and nuke, it only finds my maxtor drive not my wd drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 Try doing one drive at a time. Unhook the WD drive and do the Maxtor first. Then do the WD by itself. If it will still not find the WD drive you may have a bad drive. This way you can at lease get the computer up and running using the Maxtor drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 well its nukeing the maxtor i just hope after this i can install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 Did the BIOS find both drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 bios has found all 3 drives both harddrives and dvd drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 That is a good. Just let Darik's boot and nuke do it job now, Like I said it may take a while. I have to leave my computer for a couple of hours, I will check back with you when I get back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 so after 5 hours and 8 mins its only at 1.86% on boot and nuke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 What pass is it on? [ Pass one of three ] It is still writing or is it blanking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 pass 1 of 3 and it was writeing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 It should have gotten farther then that in 5 hours. How many hour does it say you have left. How old is this drive and why did you change the motherboard & CPU. Did you have problems before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 300 hours left so i stoped, maxtor drive is about 7 months wd is about year and 6, i got a new mobo and cpu because on the 26th i went to get on my computer in the morning and tryed to boot it up it would boot then restart then it would restart befor it would even start to load the os so i went in a restarting loop, and that gave me the incentive to get a new cpu i ran superfisk it said my boot sector was on line 33 on one hard drive and on the second one it said 2043 and it asked me if i wanted to fix it and set it back to 1 and i did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 31, 2008 CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 So you were having before this. Try using just the WD SATA drive. See if the Darik's will pick it up now. If you have another IDE cable to run to just the the DVD player use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted December 31, 2008 Author CID Share Posted December 31, 2008 so i poped in hirens boot disk and ran super fdisk deleated the mbr and after the vist install i was able to boot to the drive that i installed to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted January 1, 2009 CID Share Posted January 1, 2009 So it is running now? Which harddrive are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted January 1, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 1, 2009 i got everything runing now i installed on my sata wd drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted January 1, 2009 CID Share Posted January 1, 2009 If you decide to get another drive make sure it a SATA drive. There is no master and slave when you use SATA dirves. Just make sure the drive that has the OS on it is hook up to the #1 SATA connector slot on the motherboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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