sata hardrive cant install windows xp
 

so i tryed to reinstall xp on my sata hardrive and when i finish it tryes to boot up but stayes in the xp loading screen, i have reformated this hard drive alot of times and i wiped everthing to but noting, i count put the raid drivers in becouse i cant push f6 when i run the xp disk. i have a 4gig harddrive that has xp on it and i could get into the sata hardrive, so what can i do, i already tryed to boot it in safe mode but it wont let me. soooooooooo plezzz help.

The staying in the loading windows is a hardware issue...
XP is not driver friendly. The best all around solution for this is to revert back to the very first issues with loading windows XP.....make sure that you only have the barest minimum hardware installed when trying to install XP for the first time..( a reformat/reinstallation is a first time scenario)

This could also be the problem as to why F6 didn't work....maybe the keyboard is flaky or something like that.

Anyway remove all the extra drives, memory,pci cards that are not neccessary for installing the operating system....if you have a card reader installed by USB connection unplug it so that there is nothing installed except keyboard,mouse,1HD,1memory stick ,1optics drive.

Then reboot to the installation CD and try to install the SATA drivers and the operating system

wooooooooooooooooooooooooo . thanks you very much i got it to install, i took out the ethernet card and 1 ram card, sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Thanks for posting back that it worked out for you!