Yet another Seagate, Failed & replaced

Hi digitans,
I purchased a Seagate ST380817AS 80 GB SATA-I on may 05, it failed on june 06 & then replaced it with a Certified Repaired HDD. then again recently 20 days back. it failed again, this time i ensured i got a new drive

Damm this Seagate

so i got a 7200.10 SATA-II drive but i tried installing Windows xp on it but it failed. www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=809a4d4b57cb0110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&locale=en-US

so please help me install windows xp

what error are you getting?

Charan said:
what error are you getting?

hardware not found :S

my mobo is: MSI k8mm-v

@gary4gar - When I browsed the MSI Site for your MB's Tech Specs, it indicates RAID 0 & RAID 1 support. Try disabling the Onboard RAID Controller and then try to install Windows XP. Update me after trying this.And regarding Seagate SATA Drives, I had a bad experience of 4 of my newly replaced HDDs getting bad sectors as early as 10-15 days.

techtronic said:
@gary4gar - When I browsed the MSI Site for your MB's Tech Specs, it indicates RAID 0 & RAID 1 support. Try disabling the Onboard RAID Controller and then try to install Windows XP. Update me after trying this.And regarding Seagate SATA Drives, I had a bad experience of 4 of my newly replaced HDDs getting bad sectors as early as 10-15 days.

okay

there is no option to disable Onboard RAID Controller, however i tried disable Onboard SATA Controller but this didn't help

I think i need to integrate SATA drive in Xp

^^ YEp.. ypu need to either do that or disable AHCI support for SATA in your BIOS..!

Try to find which SATA controller is on the HD. Based on that, you can integrate the drive for your Windows. I have been doing that all evening yesterday

^^^
how to find?

*www.richandstephsipe.com/wordpress...-on-sata-ii-hard-drive-on-ga-k8n-motherboard/*www.richandstephsipe.com/wordpress...-on-sata-ii-hard-drive-on-ga-k8n-motherboard/

This would help you with your installation

although I do not know what motherboard are you using.

but how do i slipstream?, no windows here

Then a floppy drive would be a better option..! Did you try disabling AHCI? It should work that way, but you'll end up losing the advantages of SATA.. which are negligible in any case...!