No HD detected when booting XP cd.

Hi,

I'm trying to install Windows XP by booting my pc to the Windows XP CD. Instalation goes on an on perfectly but it stops to ask me in which of the following HD partitions do I want to install it in. But the problem is it shows a list of non existing partitions (like 1.- HD PARTITION NON DETECTED; 2.- HD PARTITION NOT DETECTED, etc...) It tells me to use arrows up or down to select a partition, D to delete one, etc... when I press any of this buttons it cracks down, suddenly a blue screen with things like "we had to shut it to protect your system. If this had never happened before reboot......etc etc." appear.

Another weird thing is that when I go to disk management I have two dynamic partitions of SIMPLE VOLUMES, not a MAIN VOLUME. One of them is of 8MB and the other is 186 GB. I'm no expert, but, Whatever I do, I CANT CHANGE THAT.I don't know if it has anything to with my problem.

My HD is a WDC WD2000JD-60KLB0 and I have this Mother Board: http://www.priceguidenetwork.com/pc...cd-vt8237s-pcie-lan-audio-matx-p53g-v1.0.html

Please let me know if you can help me here. Thanx very much!!

 

Hi

It looks like you are building up a SATA system, when installing XP you will need to press the f6 key to install raid driver / additional drivers from disk usually from floppy or usb, if you get no drive/partition found it will because you don't have those drivers installed.

your drive once installed will read approx 186gb not 200

hope that helps