Raptor - A7N8X-E Problem, Need Help

I turned on my new machine, to install Windows XP in a new Raptor (with no
other drives). I loaded the SATA driver, went as far as beginning to
partition the drive, made the first partition ok, then while I was making
the next partition, I _think_ that I pushed some wrong key, stuff happend
very fast so I'm not sure what went on right next, and I turned off the
machine. Now when I turn it on again, it boots up to showing "Verifying
DMI Pool data..." on the screen, and then "error loading operating
system" and stops there.

There is, of course, no operating system yet. I tried to get past that in
every way I could think, to no avail.

I next added a PATA HD with Win98 on it, and looked at the Raptor from
Win98. I got a box saying "G:\ is not accessible. A device attached to
the system is not functioniong"

I don't have another machine running SATA to try the Raptor on. I ran out
of ideas, so any suggestions about what may have happened, and where to go
from here, will be most appreciated.

Thank you!

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:49:20 GMT, Peregrin
wrote:

I turned on my new machine, to install Windows XP in a new Raptor (with no
other drives). I loaded the SATA driver, went as far as beginning to
partition the drive, made the first partition ok, then while I was making
the next partition, I _think_ that I pushed some wrong key, stuff happend
very fast so I'm not sure what went on right next, and I turned off the
machine. Now when I turn it on again, it boots up to showing "Verifying
DMI Pool data..." on the screen, and then "error loading operating
system" and stops there.

There is, of course, no operating system yet. I tried to get past that in
every way I could think, to no avail.

How'd you boot last time? Floppy or CDROM? Use same
method, and recheck bios boot order settings.


I next added a PATA HD with Win98 on it, and looked at the Raptor from
Win98. I got a box saying "G:\ is not accessible. A device attached to
the system is not functioniong"

Well sure, it's not accessible because you didn't format
it... or did you? GO into my computer and right-click,
format it. Might as well make it bootable with "copy system
files" option and then copy the winxp i386 folder on the
CDROM to the drive, and smartdrive.exe (google it or search
on your system) as it'll install much faster this way. Boot
to the win98 startup floppy, run smartdrive at the prompt
and install XP from the hard drive (obviously if you want
NTFS filesystem, you'd need have the XP files on the 2nd
partition so the first can be reformatted.


I don't have another machine running SATA to try the Raptor on. I ran out
of ideas, so any suggestions about what may have happened, and where to go
from here, will be most appreciated.

Right after the "verifying DMI pool" it's looking for a boot
device. Make sure the device you select first in bios is
really bootable, working properly.

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says...
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:49:20 GMT, Peregrin
wrote:

I turned on my new machine, to install Windows XP in a new Raptor (with no
other drives). I loaded the SATA driver, went as far as beginning to
partition the drive, made the first partition ok, then while I was making
the next partition, I _think_ that I pushed some wrong key, stuff happend
very fast so I'm not sure what went on right next, and I turned off the
machine. Now when I turn it on again, it boots up to showing "Verifying
DMI Pool data..." on the screen, and then "error loading operating
system" and stops there.

There is, of course, no operating system yet. I tried to get past that in
every way I could think, to no avail.

How'd you boot last time? Floppy or CDROM? Use same
method, and recheck bios boot order settings.


I next added a PATA HD with Win98 on it, and looked at the Raptor from
Win98. I got a box saying "G:\ is not accessible. A device attached to
the system is not functioniong"

Well sure, it's not accessible because you didn't format
it... or did you? GO into my computer and right-click,
format it. Might as well make it bootable with "copy system
files" option and then copy the winxp i386 folder on the
CDROM to the drive, and smartdrive.exe (google it or search
on your system) as it'll install much faster this way. Boot
to the win98 startup floppy, run smartdrive at the prompt
and install XP from the hard drive (obviously if you want
NTFS filesystem, you'd need have the XP files on the 2nd
partition so the first can be reformatted.


I don't have another machine running SATA to try the Raptor on. I ran out
of ideas, so any suggestions about what may have happened, and where to go
from here, will be most appreciated.

Right after the "verifying DMI pool" it's looking for a boot
device. Make sure the device you select first in bios is
really bootable, working properly.

It worked, thank you!