SOLVED - THANX !!! Boot CD for formatting

[cantido]

TheMud wrote:
The Problem is... I Formated the Harddrive with Ubuntu.

Problems with terminology; Ubuntu hasn't formated the drive, it has created or modified the existing MBR and partition table and created a filesystem(s) on a partition(s).
It doesn't matter what filesystem Ubuntu has formatted the partition(s) with, the Windows installer should still be able to read the partition table and see the sizes and locations of the partitions on the drive. IIRC it will say the partition is of an unknown type if it doesn't recognise the partion's magic number... if the drive doesn't have a partition table it recognises the installer will offer the whole drive up as unpartitioned space.

Most likely the Windows installer needs extra drivers for your chipset, you need to turn on some emulation option in the BIOS, or you have a knackered drive.

[Flashlab]

It's SATA that's the problem; if there's no IDE compatability mode in the BIOS then you need to load the drivers from a floppy (press F6 when the XP install tells you so for external drivers).

Or when you have a laptop or other preinstalled computer just use the recovery CD/DVD.

You can also make a XP cd with the drivers included. I believe it's called slipstreaming.

[Piru]

1. Download the drivers for your motherboard SATA controller, or locate them from the motherboard driver CD-ROM.
2. Copy the driver files to a floppy.
3. Boot the Windows XP Installation.
4. When prompted hit F6 to install additional drivers. The installation will read floppy in A: for the drivers.
5. Select the correct driver (often you have couple of different options to choose from, say 2000, XP 32bit, XP 64bit) and hit enter.
6. Continue the installation process as usual. Leave the floppy into the A: drive (the installation will copy the files couple of times)

[TheMud]

Thank You Guys !

I changed the thingy with the IDE and wupti ... Windows Installed :-)

YOU ARE MY HEROS :-P

[Flashlab]

Do know that when you change it back Windows won't boot anymore! There are ways to install the SATA driver afterwards but that requires some tweaking.

[TheMud]

Ehmmm... it boots fine still. :-p

[Flashlab]

Did you change SATA back to AHCI?

[TheMud]

First no ... And it could restart fine. I then installed the missing drivers and now it boots also when I change it back ... :-)