Shadrack Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 I'm trying to get Windows XP Pro w/SP1 installed on a computer. I just set up an Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A card with 2 identical 80 GB hard drives in RAID-1 (mirroring configuration) on it. Then I start to install Windows XP. I pressed F6 and put in the Floppy with the Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A drivers and selected the one for Windows XP. The Adaptec's web site said that I should receive a message regarding how it was newer then the one that is supplied with windows and to verify that I really want to use it press 'S' (and press Yes everytime it mentions the driver not passing the windows XP logo test or whatever). However I never received this message and it looked as if everything was being copied and installed fine. Setup gets to the reboot stage. I take out my CD (so it is sure to boot from the hard drive) and let the system reboot. I get INVALID BOOT DISK. I finally figure out that I need to set my 1st boot option to "SCSI" to make it boot off the boot hard drive in the RAID-1 array (which according to the RAID Bios menu is set to BOOT). But then I get this message from windows: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information." Does anyone have any ideas? I'm going to try now to install it without loading the Adaptec driver disk...maybe that might "do something". I don't know. Thanks for your time! -Nic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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