[Hidden-tech] Hidden-tech] Windows install help

[Jan Werner]

If you want to keep the RAID configuration, you will need to download 
the correct matrix drivers for the specific Intel chipset used in your 
motherboard from the Intel site. Copy them to a DOS formatted floppy 
disk (if the HP has a floppy drive), or burn them to a CD.

You should be able to press F6 during boot and load the drivers into 
Windows during the installation from the floppy or CD.

If you don't want to preserve the RAID configuration, go into the BIOS 
Setup and change the hard drive configuration from RAID to AHCI or IDE. 
If you know the drives are SATA, use AHCI (it might be just labeled SATA 
given the age of the system).

You should also be able to get the appropriate user manuals from the HP 
site for that system, which might help with some of the above.

Jan Werner
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Rikk Desgres wrote:
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> Figured out part of the problem. It seems the SATA drives are configured
> in a RAID. If I unplug all but one the installer boots to Windows but
> says it can’t find the hard drive. If anybody has any ideas let me know,
> but at least I have a direction. Will proceed....
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> *From: *Neal Priestly <neal.priestly at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:20:24 -0400
> *To: *Rikk Desgres <all at pinehurstpictures.com>
> *Cc: *Hidden-Tech <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [Hidden-tech] Hidden-tech] Windows install help
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> Hi Rikk-
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> I'm assuming that by "I did get it to start from a Dell disc" you mean
> that you got the laptop to boot up using the DVD drive, which validates
> the drive.  Have you tried booting another machine off of the OEM
> builder disc - to validate that the disc is still good?
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> Have you tried to open the DVD from within RedHat to ensure that the
> disc and the drive play well together?  I've had marginal drives and/or
> marginal media get particular about runtime combinations in the past...
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> You might want to try running the Plop boot manager (plpbt from
> http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html) if you have a floppy
> drive on the laptop.  It's a micro Linux kernel that gives you the
> ability to choose a boot device and may abstract out something on the
> machine that's getting in the way.
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> Good luck.
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> -Neal Priestly
>   Free Range Technologist
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Rikk Desgres
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>     Any Windows experts out there? I have an old HP xw8200 Workstation
>     that I’m trying to install XP on. The original restore disc is gone
>     so I was using an generic OEM builder disc. The computer starts up
>     shows some bios info, I choose to start from the DVD drive then a
>     blank screen.....and nothing. I did get it to start from a Dell disc
>     just to see if it was some procedural thing I was doing. If anybody
>     has any ideas let me know. I may try to order the restore disc from
>     HP, but it’s not listed on the support page as something that can be
>     ordered.
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>     Other info: Red Hat is currently installed as the OS if that means
>     anything.
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>     Thanks,
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>     Rikk
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