[CanadianMetal16]

I Finished putting together a computer and i had a ultra ATA hard drive. The computer didnt regognize the hdd as being there so i returned it for an SATA hdd. After installing the SATA Hard drive the bios recognizes the hdd there at the begging as a maxtor hdd but when i attempt to install windows i get the 0x0000007F stop error right after it says Starting Windows across the bottom. Im trying ot install XP Pro.

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SATA drives needs drivers installed during the installation process when the install disk loads youll see a prompt to install third party drivers at that point you need to install the drivers for the motherboards SATA controller you just stick a floppy disk with them on in and it will install it from that.

[warriorscot]

SATA drives needs drivers installed during the installation process when the install disk loads youll see a prompt to install third party drivers at that point you need to install the drivers for the motherboards SATA controller you just stick a floppy disk with them on in and it will install it from that.

[CanadianMetal16]

i tried installing all the drivers from the floppy i created with the maxtor cd, and i installed the drivers on the nvraid cd that came w/ the motherboard and neither of that worked...do i need to enable raid in the bios?

[apritske]

The only reason you would need to enable RAID is if you're actually trying to set up a disk array - it sounds like you only have one hard drive so don't worry about you RAID BIOS options.

Try clearing the CMOS, resetting your BIOS settings, create a SATA floppy driver disk from BIOS, set the system to boot from your optical drive, try installing Windows, and insert your floppy when prompet by the setup