 SATA gods dislike me
Ok, so I bought me a 250 gig SATA maxtor drive with the 16mb of cache. Not a bad upgrade from my ide 60 gigger eh?
Well, being that I havn't used a floppy drive in a few years and I don't own a spare; I rip the floppy out of my wifes HP. No biggie, her and the kid took a vacation with my folks to Disney World so I don't have to hear the griping (I gotta pay the bills).
Well, SNAFU #1. I am guessing my floppy controller is dead, because I can't get that darn thing to work for anything. I know the floppy works, but it sure as heck won't work in my system. I even loaded the fail safes from bios, still no joy.
So I figure I will just make one of those fancy slipstreamed WinXp cds. I find a guide and go through the inclusion of service pack 2 (serisous PITA). Then I make the dirs for the drivers, throw them in, and edit the txtsetup.sif. Guide tells me to find [hardwareldsdatabase].
SNAFU #2. The above string does not exist in my file.
So now, how the heck do I install this spankin new HDD as my primary (and only) HDD?
AMD XP3000+
Abit NF7-S v2 |