Oh lord....

[taktoa]

I have had enormous trouble with my computer this past week.

After dealing with my past problems by sending my computer to Geek Squad, I was told that my PATA controller is broken. So I decided to get a new hard drive and optical drive. For my hard drive I got the new Seagate Barracuda 1Tb SATA Hard Drive. Woopdeedooda. Then, for my optical drive I got a LITE-ON SATA DVD+/-RW Burner. So, as usual, I open up gParted and partition the drive with three partitions: an NTFS partition of ~850GiB, a linux-swap partition of ~3GiB, and an EXT3 partition of ~100GiB. I then install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 successfully and then I boot into Windows XP MCE 2005 Setup. It loads the drivers. It displays a BSoD with the error code of 0x000007B. I look it up and find that it means that my SATA controller was not detected, so I slipstream the drivers into my Windows installation with nLite. More BSoD, same error. I then try to find the driver in the disk. The drivers had truncated file endings (.in_ instead of .inf) and they were smaller than the original. So I rip the files off the disk, and reburn it after replacing the broken drivers with the real ones. It won't boot from the new disk. :censored: :censored: What else can I do!?!?!?!

Note: my motherboard is the ASRock 775XFire-eSATA+ and my RAM is 2Gbs of Buffalo DDR2667 and I have a 480W PSU.

[Alan2273]

Have you tried putting the SATA drivers on a floppy disk (If you have one) and press F6 to load them before installing Windows.

Try the drivers from this link.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=775XFire-eSATA2

[taktoa]

I tried a floppy to no avail.