Sata drive problems

Question

right my dilema is this i have buit a new system and everything works fine, finished it off by buying a couple of maxtor sata drives, a 200gig for storage and a 120gig for boot/os.
maxblast3 i cannot get to run from cd or floppy but it runs fine from windows so i am able to see the drives and format them etc.
saturday i spent best part on 12 hours trying to install windows xp on the 120 and everytime i was defeated, and finally got off with it, so cracked a bottle open
ok then install process was
boot form cd
xp cd in drive
mobo sata drivers in floppy ready
press any key to boot from cd
wait abit
F6 to install extra drivers, done that ok
cd activity copying files over ready to install
your pc will reboot in 15 seconds
boots up fine, don't press key to boot from cd
bang my problem begins
the screen reads like this " press any key to boot from cd........error loading operating system"
anyone else suffered this and managed to get around it ? this happens "everytime"
so the next thing was to try the 200gig even though it was not recognised as 200gig (137) and install xp so i done exactly the same as above and everything went fine xp installed no problem. however i don't want xp on this drive as i do not want to partition it and it is too much messing round to get windows to recognise its true size.
the 200gig is a diamondmax +10 ncq 7200rpm sata/150 it has no molex and no jumper place on it.
the 120 is a diamondmax +9 7200rpm sata/150 now this drive has a molex plug and a jumper place like an ordinary drive, it also has a sata power point and sata connection point. it look exactly like an ide drive with ide plug pulled off and sata point put on it  i thought sata's did not need jumpers ?
another thing i have noticed....in your system tray you have an icon like a little grey box with a green arrow above it that you use to safely remove hardware like usb stuff etc my drive shows up in there ?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...orbog/sata1.jpg
anyone got a sata 120 gig as a boot drive ? what make do you have ?
my pc spec is
msi k8n neo2 mobo
1 gig dual channel ram
amd 64bit 3200 winchester cpu
antec neopoer 480w psu
plenty cooloing
msi 6600gt 128mb graphic card
using ide drive at the mo
hope this makes sense, thanks for any advice
forgot to add the 120 works fine as generic storage drive just can't get an o/s onto it.

Answer 1

Quote from: BWA on 14-February-05, 11:18:17
Just threw that into the discussion to see if it would lead anywhere. I'm using Hitachi sata drives and they are the same as the IDE drive with an added chip foir the sata (think that is why they still have the old style power connection along with the sata connection)
my system's based on the same mobo (k8n neo4) with only one Hitachi80GB sataII hdd... and i have the same trouble like 'gravies': i'd get windows to start install (with help of drivers off floppy; by F6) but when it reboots to actually set up the system it hangs... not recognizing the boot files written on my SATAdrive = or the drive itself...
Did you somebody resolve this problem?
It's driving me crazy already 4 looong days...  (first i also had faulty floppy../
thx,
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