Just goes to show you that Windows XP is not smarter than you are, despite
whatever Billy and Stevie think... Ben Myers
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:38:24 -0500, "Tom Scales" <> wrote:
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>"Tom Scales" <> wrote in message
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>> "JMI" <> wrote in message
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just took delivery of a new XPS 410 yesterday and it only came with one
>>> hard drive. It boots fine in this configuration. So, since I've got
>>> several SATA drives from my old system I thought I'd put them into the
>>> new system. Well there are these options in the BIOS that say "Raid/Auto
>>> Detect" and "RAID". By default this option is set to RAID (yes, even
>>> though the system only shipped with one hard drive.) I'm NOT wanting
>>> these drives to be in a RAID configuration (besides one is only a 36 Gig
>>> WD Raptor and the other is 160gig).
>>>
>>> When it is set to Raid/Auto Detect and I attempt to boot XP I get the
>>> Stop 0x0000007B blue screen.
>>>
>>> I know there has to be a way to setup this second (and soon a third) hard
>>> drive without setting up RAID and without getting this STOP error, but
>>> how?
>>>
>>> Oh, BTW, even when I have the drive disconnected from the system and have
>>> the BIOS set to Raid/Auto Detect I still get the STOP error.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> You can't change that option without reinstalling the OS. It warns you
>> about that when you change it.
>>
>> Oddly, I am trying to reinstall XP and am getting the same error. It will
>> not let me install, even on a different hard drive. Trying to figure it
>> out now.
>>
>>
>>
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>I may be wrong here. It should be left on Raid, but regardless, but I could
>NOT get XP Pro SP2 (dell disk) to install. I got the same stop error.
>
>I downloaded the Dell RAID drivers and put them on a floppy and fed it to
>the install. XP complained and set it already had the drivers. I forced it
>to use the floppy and it fixed the problem. Odd.
>
>Tom
>
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