SATA installed, Windows stalls during loading.?

i have a chaintech 9cjs zenith board. i just bought a sata b/c my ide failed. i only have 1 sata installed and windows won't load. i installed the raid driver before installing windows and now on the loading windows screen (with the blue bar scrolling), it freezes. i've waited 10 minutes and nothing has happened. before i installed the raid drivers, but installed windows, at this screen i would be taken to a blue screen telling me there was an error. can anyone suggest anything??? thanks a lot.





jesse

SATA installed, Windows stalls during loading.?
as well as that, you have developed a keyboard error that's caused you to post that same question 4 times within 1 minute!!!
Reply:make sure your sata is identified by your board (system) check bios and choose appropriate Sata choice.





Then re-install windows. I have no idea about RAID. but as far as I know RAID needs 2 SATA disks. Try without RAID. This may cause freezing.
Reply:replace your motherboard!
Reply:you did not mention the OS that you are trying to install. WinXP should not need the RAID driver unless you are installing a raid configuration. Win2k will need a driver but I have had to make the floppy driver from the install versions and not the floppy that came with my motherboard. I had to download the latest drivers and extract the SATA drive controller and chipset driver. Then build a special floppy config file to get this to install on Win2k. Hopefully you are installing WinXP and not 2k.





the other way I got this to install on Win2K was to install on a PATA drive and create and image with Image Magic 10. Then switch the SATA drive and move the PATA to a USB drive. Boot from a image magic floppy and use image magic to copy the PATA to the SATA. This got the SATA drive to work as the main "C" drive.

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