Hi all, when running setup for WinXP the hard drive is not detected and system hangs. The Hard drive worked fine under 98 without any problems. It's an aftermarket Maxtor 6.5 Gig IDE I tried the F6 method but have no third party drivers to install Maxtor didn't have any

First of all I would not be using a 6.5 gb hard drive for XP anyway which will likely use up 4 gb with the install alone. I would also bet that hard drive is so old, it simply may not be able to handle an XP install, which puts alot more stress on a hard drive than 98, wbut the driver issue and F6 is for sata drive and not ide drive anyway. Does the hard drive show in the bios...is it jumpered right? is it a stand alone drive or is there another hard drive which makes a difference in jumpering?

Have you run fdisk, rebooted & formatted?

Garr, A 6.5 GB IDE drive will certainly support XP. A basic XP installation is under 2 GB. I'm using a 4.3 GB drive on my XP SP2 machine that acts as my network print server, and it's great (for this application). If the drive is good, and it is properly jumpered and connected, it should work. Good luck. I - Sandor J Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the wise man. - William Penn (1614 - 1718)

Ok I apparently need a file called TXTSETUP.OEM I tried Dell I tried Maxtor and I tried Intel I can't find drivers anywhere If Win98 can see it shouldn't XP never had issues with 98 but paid 200 dollars for a new operating system I can't use.

Garr - if bought a legit copy of the XP CD, you do not need any other files. Try listing some specifics here - like what computer, motherboard, drive configuration, etc. Rule #1: Good Computers don't go down. Rule #2: There is no such thing as a good computer.

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