The SATA drivers are not for the HDrive but for the harddrive controller. These are supplied on the MBoard CD or from the MBoard site.

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And i install the drivers at the start of windows setup when it says "Press F? to install third party or raid drivers? Thanks Sam

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If you have a floppy drive available then copy the drivers to a floppy disk. Supply the floppy when prompted to hit F6. Don't remove the floppy until instructed to. If no floppy drive then you can slipstream the SATA drivers into your CD using nLite. Find nLite below. http://www.download.com/nLite/3000-...

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OtheHill I don't think SATA controller drivers have anything to do with his problems. If he got that far in Setup, "setup will complete in approx 39 minutes", Setup can see the SATA drive fine. computer2008 "Have tried copying the D:\l386 folder from the xp disc (whilst in my laptop) and coping it to a SD card, in hope that widows might be able to copy it from there if I point it in the right direction but the drive doesn't show up (possibly because it has no drivers?) when i use the front card reader or a USB card reader." XP Setup cannot read anything that isn't on the Windows CD or the hard drive, except that - it can read from a floppy disk in a regular floppy drive in order to load drivers for a drive controller card or similar. - it can read from a floppy disk in small number of USB connected floppy drive models that were available before/when XP was first released, but those models haven't been made for many years. Otherwise, it can't read from any USB connected storage device until much later in Setup - they were not available when XP was first released, and support for them has not been added to Setup since. You could, however, copy the entire contents of the Windows CD, or at least the contents of the \i386 folder, to the SATA drive on another computer with the SATA drive connected so it is slave, or master on a secondary controller, and point Windows Setup to that folder. .... XP (SP1 and later?) has support for a small number of SATA drive controllers built into it, mostly Intel ones. Also, if the computer's bios has the SATA drive controller in IDE compatible mode, the SATA drive is found no problem because it's seen as a IDE drive.

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computer2008 Tubesandwires may be correct in his assessment of your problem. Are you using an ORIGINAL WinXP CD or a copy? If you have any periphial hardware currently connected, remove it. "Fatal error: One of the componenets windows needs to continue could not be installed." This message may well be due to a weak laser or bad spot on the CD but could also be due to Windows not finding a suitable driver for a hardware component. I never heard of the computer brand so I haven't any idea if this computer is old or state of the art. If the BIOS has been tweaked for FSB or RAM timing then reset to stock settings. You could also try disabling, in the BIOS, any intergrated hardware not essential to the initial install. If the settings for the boot drive remain the same as they were with the previous drive then that shouldn't be an issue. Are both the SATA and CD drives identified by model in the startup screens?

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"Xp pro MC" Are you using the two CD OEM XP MCE set? If you are, that's not quite the same as the full XP Pro with Media Center stuff added to it. MCE is mostly the same as XP Pro, except some features of XP Pro that most people don't use have been left out, plus MCE has the major Media Center program and related programs, and it has added multimedia support. What you see in Setup and the progress of Setup in MCE Setup is very similar to what you see in XP Pro Setup, but there is an important difference. After a lot of files have been loaded from the first MCE CD, Setup asks you to insert another CD - the CD it asks for does not have the actual name/label of the second CD - that's a bug/mistake in the original MCE Setup that has never been fixed since. At that point you MUST insert the second CD, then Setup loads files from it for a while, then it asks for another mis-named CD - another bug/mistake in the original MCE Setup that has never been fixed since. At that point you MUST insert the first MCE CD again, and Setup loads more essential files and eventually finishes Setup. If you don't insert the second CD when asked despite the name/label for it being wrong, or if you insert the second CD but don't insert the first CD again when asked, Setup will still finish but Setup does not complete properly, and there are a lot of files missing on the Windows installation on the hard drive. You get all sorts of errors when you try to run Windows after that. How do I know? I've run MCE 2005 Setup a half dozen times. The first time I had no idea what CDs it was asking for, and skipped loading from the second CD.

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