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NT workstation on SATA harddrive

zapata · 2005-04-07 21:57:25

pc is a Dell Optiplex GX270. Trying to install NT Workstation. (Don't ask Why :o ) Is this a compatability issue. I even tried cloning using GHOST 7.5 (a working image of NT workstation, SP6a, from a GX260 with a 20gig IDE drive onto the GX270 sata drive) The OS hangs at the blue screen on boot up. This is not a 'blue…

07-04-2005 10:57pm

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pc is a Dell Optiplex GX270.
Trying to install NT Workstation. (Don't ask Why )
Is this a compatability issue.
I even tried cloning using GHOST 7.5 (a working image of NT workstation, SP6a, from a GX260 with a 20gig IDE drive onto the GX270 sata drive)
The OS hangs at the blue screen on boot up. This is not a 'blue screen of death' though.

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#2 08-04-2005 8:33am

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NT/2K/XP can be very snotty about controller driver, when swapping drives between nearly similar PC's I've seen 2K blue screen on two different revisions of the intel PIIX4 chipset that NT didn't see any difference between.

When you pressed F6 during setup to choose a SCSI driver from disk for the SATA controller , which one did you choose ?

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#3 08-04-2005 1:49pm

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I haven't been able to locate the SATA NT drivers for the Dell GX270. Rang Dell, but the won't support NT on the GX270.

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#4 08-04-2005 6:05pm

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Find out what the SATA controller chipset is, and look for drivers for that.

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