I am just trying WD Scrorpio Blue 320GB PATA. No success so far. Cannot figure it out.
My previous installation with Hitachi 160 GB (two years ago) was a charm so I expected no evil.
Wrong.
So far I keep cycling between "loading files" and rebooting endlessly. No options out...keep giving me choice to format (which I did, no problem), choosing partition and installing OS ....and after "loading files" it informs me everything is OK and would continue after reboot. Wrong. After reboot it either asks for "strike any key" and do the same again...or announces to me "cd reading error" if I do not press the keyboard with vicious cycle repeating.
I already read several treads but no help so far. Slipstreaming to integrate sp2 and create bootable xp sp2 cd was useless. (I had sp1 integrated already and sp1 is all it takes to recognize larger than 136GB drives).
The safest will be to return the hdd before time runs out.
Better suggestions? Is there "block in bios" or some other trickery???
Any suggestion greatly appreciated.
My previous installation with Hitachi 160 GB (two years ago) was a charm so I expected no evil.
Wrong.
So far I keep cycling between "loading files" and rebooting endlessly. No options out...keep giving me choice to format (which I did, no problem), choosing partition and installing OS ....and after "loading files" it informs me everything is OK and would continue after reboot. Wrong. After reboot it either asks for "strike any key" and do the same again...or announces to me "cd reading error" if I do not press the keyboard with vicious cycle repeating.
I already read several treads but no help so far. Slipstreaming to integrate sp2 and create bootable xp sp2 cd was useless. (I had sp1 integrated already and sp1 is all it takes to recognize larger than 136GB drives).
The safest will be to return the hdd before time runs out.
Better suggestions? Is there "block in bios" or some other trickery???
Any suggestion greatly appreciated.