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I changed my SATA cables to what you suggested, erased and repartitioned the drive, unplugged all drives but blank one, edited the BIOS, installed using the retail XP home edition with SP2, and the same exact thing happened. It copies all the XP files but when it goes to reboot:
Loading operating system…Missing Operating System
The drive I'm trying to install on is a WD Blue WD2500AAKX 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5. It doesn't appear to matter what SATA port I use, whether the Z68 or the Marvell chipset, I can never get setup to finish after the reboot. It doesn't make sense to me that I can have everything unplugged, basically like a new computer, but can't install XP.
Could it be a problem with my partitioning using Disk Utility? I've been doing a 1gb partition MacOS Extended named "Boot" and then a second partition named "WINXP" MS-DOS FAT 32. When I go to install XP, would reformatting to NTFS do anything when prompted? Or should I try maybe making my "Boot" partition the second partition? Not sure that would change anything though...
Loading operating system…Missing Operating System
The drive I'm trying to install on is a WD Blue WD2500AAKX 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5. It doesn't appear to matter what SATA port I use, whether the Z68 or the Marvell chipset, I can never get setup to finish after the reboot. It doesn't make sense to me that I can have everything unplugged, basically like a new computer, but can't install XP.
Could it be a problem with my partitioning using Disk Utility? I've been doing a 1gb partition MacOS Extended named "Boot" and then a second partition named "WINXP" MS-DOS FAT 32. When I go to install XP, would reformatting to NTFS do anything when prompted? Or should I try maybe making my "Boot" partition the second partition? Not sure that would change anything though...