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WD 80 SATA dead?

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DeepGrey

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I have a WD800JB SATA drive which I just finished installing XP on it. When it boots up for the first time after the install it blue screened with the following:


Stop: 0x0000007b.... It says reset it if its the first time it comes up. I reset it and everytime it comes up with that error.When I go to reinstall windows on the part where it asks to create partitions it doesn't recognize my drive ("Windows could not recognize a drive reboot your machine" something like that).


I checked bios and SATA is enabled. I have also done the F6 to install SCSI adapters. It is a Promise SATA/RAID controller built onto my board. It is set as a Raid 1+0 stripe (80gb partitioned as ~40/40. Is there any reason as to why it cannot be recognized after installing it? Am I doing something wrong? This is my first encounter with SATA. Any suggestions ...Thanks!
 
It might not apply to your board,But on my Gigabyte board, I have it set to SATA but I also have it set to "boot scsi" ..Where it says "first boot device, If I set it to HD 1 It wont boot, I need to set it to SCSI.
 
Ahh... almost forgot about that. I have mine set to optical, IDE 0. That sounds right. I'll try that when I get home. Hope it works, Thanks.
 
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Raid 0+1 stripe?
Raid or striping is pretty much poinless on a single drive. Once in a while Raid-1 on a single drive might save you from a bad sector, but usually when you get one it's in some random OS , application, or multimedia file & not in something important (like your tax return or resume) and will cost a *ton* of performance.
1. Set the drive to "single drive"
2. Boot the windows installer.
3. Press F6
4. Install SATA driver
5. Unless you've got data on it or are going to install a 2nd OS on it (say, Linux) delete all partitions and format as one big NTFS volume.
6. Finish installing Windows, drivers, updates, patches, apps, etc.

As for the boot settings, for Windows installation it should be set to "CD-Rom", "Optical IDE0" or whatever describes where your CD drive is. 2nd priority should probably be SCSI for an SATA disk, so once you pull the windows CD it'll boot from your HD. Once you have windows running, you can make the HD 1st priority (ie- set SCSI to first priority) to make booting a little faster.
 
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