URGENT HELP!! i got sata II drive and cant install operating susytem....

okay, i currently had a raptor 74gb, i just bought a 250gb wd sata II hard drive, when i stuck that drive in, i loaded up the setup files, quick formated the drive, and then when restarted, it woudnt load windows setup to install XP, it said "coudnt start because file is missiing or corrupt....<windows root> \system32\ntoskrnl.exe, please reinstall a copy of the above file....
thats wierd, i dont know much about computers, i have installed and formated before with the same cd, so it must be able to copy files from that cd, it isnt damaged, maybe its the SATA II drive, can i please have thorough advice, i dont understand that good like details of how to copy that file from the cd to and place it in the directory if needed upon loading setup underr recovery console...
maybe im running wrong bios version, maybe i have to reset to default 1.4, i have 1.b atm , how do u reset to orginal bios version, that could be the problem
please asap, im running latest bios on msi 7125- msi k8n neo4 platnium board..
i dont think these board support SATA II drives.. and i have the latest bios so whats wrong???
thankyou so much!

Hi guys,
I've got exactly the same problem - and, you're not alone - there are lots of people out there with nForce4 boards and SATA-II drives that do not work in SATA-II mode. I just built a new system using the Neo4 Platinum, Athlon 64 X2, and a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250 GB SATA-II drive. I've talked to MSI and Maxtor, both of wich have no solution for this particular problem.
The Maxtor drive will only work in SATA-I mode (1.5Gb/s) by manually changing the "J4" jumper. Otherwise, the system locks when running in SATA-II mode. I have the system running fine at SATA-I. I was able to install Windows XP, and everything runs great -- except for the SATA-II mode.
On the Maxtor site (https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=2685&p_created=1136595488) Maxtor acknowledges a problem with nForce 4 and Maxtor drives.
This same issue occurred with some previous drives, which a firmware update corrected this issue. However, with the drive I have, it has the latest firmware according to Maxtor support. I'm still waiting for a solution to this one... Perhaps is simply a matter of a BIOS and/or driver update from NVIDIA. I've read that some figure it's a problem with NCQ... but, there is no solution - yet. I'll keep you posted if I find out any more.
Good luck!

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