No. That is incorrect. The page where I am stuck at is the SECOND
screen in the Vista install process. I can't hit any function keys or
anything, and the screen is stuck there with the green bar just
scrolling away forever (I've left it on that screen for a whole 24+
hours one time). The screen where you select the drive to install Vista
on is the EIGHTH screen in the Vista install process. Trust me, I've
installed Vista on this PC numerous times on the ATA IDE drive with no
problems.

Oh well. This is a dead issue that won't get resolved anyway, so I just
left the old ATA IDE drive plugged in and loaded Vista on the SATA
drive. There is no way I can install Vista on my system with the SATA
drive hooked up alone. It needs that IDE for some odd reason to write
all its boot parameters on. What a hokey setup indeed.

Thanks anyway.


John Barnes wrote:
If you get to the page where you have the scroll bar, you are way past
the load drivers which is on the page where you select the drive to
install Vista on. If you have Vista installed to the point where you
are booting to it to do an upgrade install, you need to hit F8 during
the last part of post and try safe mode. If you can get into safe mode,
the odds are you need to install the latest video drivers for your card
as the point of the scroll bar is where the video driver is loaded.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:z3qyj.32675$w94.5183@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for your help John. I appreciate your input and would like to
resolve this problem soon. But take a look at the screen where I get
stuck:

http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/O.../image1_2.html

That's only the second screen in the Vista install process and I can
never get to the page where it asks me to 'Load Drivers.'

This Vista install should be straight forward but it isn't. I've
tried everything in the BIOS and even upgraded my BIOS to the latest
drivers from MSI, but still no dice.

John Barnes wrote:
Some BIOS's have a two step priority system. First you select the
order of priority of major categories, i.e. floppy DVD hd etc. Then
separately you set the priority of the HD within that category i.e.
IDE SATA1 etc. What shows up on the splash screen when you go thru
POST makes no difference. You need to enter the BIOS using whatever
key it says at the bottom of the POST screens, often the delete key,
when you enter the bios, usually the main categories are across the
top and you need to scroll over the the boot priority, then enter.
Within that section you would generally set up the DVD drive as first
boot and the HD as second boot. Following that, you would go to the
HD priority section and set up the drives in order, in your case you
want the SATA drive as first and if you leave the IDE attached (I
would recommend disconnecting the plug) set it up second. Save the
changes and boot to the DVD. Follow the setup instructions. Have
the SATA controller drivers ready on a thumb drive or floppy so you
can install them where it says 'Load Drivers' on the page where you
select where to install Vista.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:e2oyj.31763$w94.20470@pd7urf2no...
You are correct; I think I'm going off on a tangent with this
problem. I shouldn't have stated in my last post that I couldn't
change the boot priority, because you can. That was my mistake.
But even when you change the boot priority in the BIOS, the old ATA
IDE drive will still show up as the primary master and my new SATA
drive will still be the third master drive.

I am starting to think that concentrating on the primary and third
master drive concept has nothing to do with my problems installing
Vista on the SATA drive by itself.

And it still doesn't change the fact that I can't install Vista
UNLESS I keep that old ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary
master on that IDE port and the SATA drive plugged in as the third
master drive.

I just want to get rid of that old ATA IDE drive and do a clean
install on my new SATA drive. How come Windows XP will do a clean
install with this kind of setup?


John Barnes wrote:
There is no chance that you are correct. Don't know why you can't
find it in the manual or by browsing thru the BIOS but I assure you
that there is no post 1999 BIOS where you can't change the boot
priority, and any MOBO that supports SATA surely does. 99% of the
BIOS's that support SATA also support boot time priority changes.
LOOK FOR IT

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Awkyj.29598$w94.4767@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for the advice, but for my motherboard, there is no way to
change the boot priority.

I made a mistake buying Vista that's for sure.

John Barnes wrote:
You need to go into your BIOS and set the boot priority to have
the SATA drive first hard drive in boot order. Read your manual
for how to enter your BIOS

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Kgayj.23811$pM4.788@pd7urf1no...
I have an MSI K9NSLI Platinum motherboard with a brand new
Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB SATA drive attached as the third
master drive. The primary master has an old school ATAPI DVDRW.
Keep in mind there is no way I can change a setting in the BIOS
(or I don't know how to do it) so that the SATA device is the
primary master drive, so these are permanent settings; the
primary master and slave drives connect to the IDE connector on
my mobo. Now, I’ve tried and tried and tried, but I can’t do a
clean install nor an upgrade of Windows Vista Home Premium x86
(from DVD) on that SATA drive when it is hooked up alone (as the
third master drive).

But here’s the kicker. If I plug in my old regular ATA IDE
drive as the primary master drive, the DVDRW as the primary
slave, and leave the SATA drive as the third master drive, I can
install Vista with no problems onto the SATA drive. I just have
to leave my old regular ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary
master. If I try to disconnect my old regular ATA IDE drive but
leave the SATA drive plugged in by itself, Windows Vista won’t
boot.

What is the deal here? How come I can have the SATA by itself
as the third master and install WINDOWS XP with no problems and
have a workable system, but VISTA doesn’t install. I just paid
over $250 for Vista and I have to use this kind of setup to get
Windows Vista to work on a SATA drive by itself? This is lame.
I want to take that old IDE hard drive out of the box.

Here are my install screens:

First screen: “Windows is loading files...” bar goes to 100% and
the screen advances

Second screen: Black screen with moving green bar and Copyright
Microsoft Corporation on bottom. The green bar just keeps
moving on forever and doesn’t go to the next screen (which would
be the colorful “Install Windows” dialog box where you choose
the language, time/currency, and keyboard, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

drive. There is no way I can install Vista on my system with the SATA
drive hooked up alone. It needs that IDE for some odd reason to write all
its boot parameters on. What a hokey setup indeed.

That is completely incorrect

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:TQ2zj.40006$pM4.24131@pd7urf1no...
No. That is incorrect. The page where I am stuck at is the SECOND screen
in the Vista install process. I can't hit any function keys or anything,
and the screen is stuck there with the green bar just scrolling away
forever (I've left it on that screen for a whole 24+ hours one time). The
screen where you select the drive to install Vista on is the EIGHTH screen
in the Vista install process. Trust me, I've installed Vista on this PC
numerous times on the ATA IDE drive with no problems.

Oh well. This is a dead issue that won't get resolved anyway, so I just
left the old ATA IDE drive plugged in and loaded Vista on the SATA drive.
There is no way I can install Vista on my system with the SATA drive
hooked up alone. It needs that IDE for some odd reason to write all its
boot parameters on. What a hokey setup indeed.

Thanks anyway.


John Barnes wrote:
If you get to the page where you have the scroll bar, you are way past
the load drivers which is on the page where you select the drive to
install Vista on. If you have Vista installed to the point where you are
booting to it to do an upgrade install, you need to hit F8 during the
last part of post and try safe mode. If you can get into safe mode, the
odds are you need to install the latest video drivers for your card as
the point of the scroll bar is where the video driver is loaded.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:z3qyj.32675$w94.5183@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for your help John. I appreciate your input and would like to
resolve this problem soon. But take a look at the screen where I get
stuck:

http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/O.../image1_2.html

That's only the second screen in the Vista install process and I can
never get to the page where it asks me to 'Load Drivers.'

This Vista install should be straight forward but it isn't. I've tried
everything in the BIOS and even upgraded my BIOS to the latest drivers
from MSI, but still no dice.

John Barnes wrote:
Some BIOS's have a two step priority system. First you select the
order of priority of major categories, i.e. floppy DVD hd etc. Then
separately you set the priority of the HD within that category i.e. IDE
SATA1 etc. What shows up on the splash screen when you go thru POST
makes no difference. You need to enter the BIOS using whatever key it
says at the bottom of the POST screens, often the delete key, when you
enter the bios, usually the main categories are across the top and you
need to scroll over the the boot priority, then enter. Within that
section you would generally set up the DVD drive as first boot and the
HD as second boot. Following that, you would go to the HD priority
section and set up the drives in order, in your case you want the SATA
drive as first and if you leave the IDE attached (I would recommend
disconnecting the plug) set it up second. Save the changes and boot to
the DVD. Follow the setup instructions. Have the SATA controller
drivers ready on a thumb drive or floppy so you can install them where
it says 'Load Drivers' on the page where you select where to install
Vista.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:e2oyj.31763$w94.20470@pd7urf2no...
You are correct; I think I'm going off on a tangent with this problem.
I shouldn't have stated in my last post that I couldn't change the
boot priority, because you can. That was my mistake. But even when
you change the boot priority in the BIOS, the old ATA IDE drive will
still show up as the primary master and my new SATA drive will still
be the third master drive.

I am starting to think that concentrating on the primary and third
master drive concept has nothing to do with my problems installing
Vista on the SATA drive by itself.

And it still doesn't change the fact that I can't install Vista UNLESS
I keep that old ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary master on that
IDE port and the SATA drive plugged in as the third master drive.

I just want to get rid of that old ATA IDE drive and do a clean
install on my new SATA drive. How come Windows XP will do a clean
install with this kind of setup?


John Barnes wrote:
There is no chance that you are correct. Don't know why you can't
find it in the manual or by browsing thru the BIOS but I assure you
that there is no post 1999 BIOS where you can't change the boot
priority, and any MOBO that supports SATA surely does. 99% of the
BIOS's that support SATA also support boot time priority changes.
LOOK FOR IT

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Awkyj.29598$w94.4767@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for the advice, but for my motherboard, there is no way to
change the boot priority.

I made a mistake buying Vista that's for sure.

John Barnes wrote:
You need to go into your BIOS and set the boot priority to have the
SATA drive first hard drive in boot order. Read your manual for
how to enter your BIOS

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Kgayj.23811$pM4.788@pd7urf1no...
I have an MSI K9NSLI Platinum motherboard with a brand new Seagate
ST3250410AS 250GB SATA drive attached as the third master drive.
The primary master has an old school ATAPI DVDRW. Keep in mind
there is no way I can change a setting in the BIOS (or I don't
know how to do it) so that the SATA device is the primary master
drive, so these are permanent settings; the primary master and
slave drives connect to the IDE connector on my mobo. Now, I’ve
tried and tried and tried, but I can’t do a clean install nor an
upgrade of Windows Vista Home Premium x86 (from DVD) on that SATA
drive when it is hooked up alone (as the third master drive).

But here’s the kicker. If I plug in my old regular ATA IDE drive
as the primary master drive, the DVDRW as the primary slave, and
leave the SATA drive as the third master drive, I can install
Vista with no problems onto the SATA drive. I just have to leave
my old regular ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary master. If
I try to disconnect my old regular ATA IDE drive but leave the
SATA drive plugged in by itself, Windows Vista won’t boot.

What is the deal here? How come I can have the SATA by itself as
the third master and install WINDOWS XP with no problems and have
a workable system, but VISTA doesn’t install. I just paid over
$250 for Vista and I have to use this kind of setup to get Windows
Vista to work on a SATA drive by itself? This is lame. I want to
take that old IDE hard drive out of the box.

Here are my install screens:

First screen: “Windows is loading files...” bar goes to 100% and
the screen advances

Second screen: Black screen with moving green bar and Copyright
Microsoft Corporation on bottom. The green bar just keeps moving
on forever and doesn’t go to the next screen (which would be the
colorful “Install Windows” dialog box where you choose the
language, time/currency, and keyboard, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

You are correct DL, I was incorrect-You CAN install Vista on my system
with the SATA drive hooked up alone. Here's how I solved the problem;
All this time pulling my hair out and it was a problem I overlooked from
the outset:

Downgrade (NOT UPGRADE) the BIOS!!

My motherboard:

MSI K9N SLI PLATINUM

version of BIOS downgraded to:

v1.9, dated 2007-09-06

previous version of BIOS used:

v.1.10, dated 2007-10-04

DL wrote:
drive. There is no way I can install Vista on my system with the SATA
drive hooked up alone. It needs that IDE for some odd reason to write all
its boot parameters on. What a hokey setup indeed.

That is completely incorrect

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:TQ2zj.40006$pM4.24131@pd7urf1no...
No. That is incorrect. The page where I am stuck at is the SECOND screen
in the Vista install process. I can't hit any function keys or anything,
and the screen is stuck there with the green bar just scrolling away
forever (I've left it on that screen for a whole 24+ hours one time). The
screen where you select the drive to install Vista on is the EIGHTH screen
in the Vista install process. Trust me, I've installed Vista on this PC
numerous times on the ATA IDE drive with no problems.

Oh well. This is a dead issue that won't get resolved anyway, so I just
left the old ATA IDE drive plugged in and loaded Vista on the SATA drive.
There is no way I can install Vista on my system with the SATA drive
hooked up alone. It needs that IDE for some odd reason to write all its
boot parameters on. What a hokey setup indeed.

Thanks anyway.


John Barnes wrote:
If you get to the page where you have the scroll bar, you are way past
the load drivers which is on the page where you select the drive to
install Vista on. If you have Vista installed to the point where you are
booting to it to do an upgrade install, you need to hit F8 during the
last part of post and try safe mode. If you can get into safe mode, the
odds are you need to install the latest video drivers for your card as
the point of the scroll bar is where the video driver is loaded.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:z3qyj.32675$w94.5183@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for your help John. I appreciate your input and would like to
resolve this problem soon. But take a look at the screen where I get
stuck:

http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/O.../image1_2.html

That's only the second screen in the Vista install process and I can
never get to the page where it asks me to 'Load Drivers.'

This Vista install should be straight forward but it isn't. I've tried
everything in the BIOS and even upgraded my BIOS to the latest drivers
from MSI, but still no dice.

John Barnes wrote:
Some BIOS's have a two step priority system. First you select the
order of priority of major categories, i.e. floppy DVD hd etc. Then
separately you set the priority of the HD within that category i.e. IDE
SATA1 etc. What shows up on the splash screen when you go thru POST
makes no difference. You need to enter the BIOS using whatever key it
says at the bottom of the POST screens, often the delete key, when you
enter the bios, usually the main categories are across the top and you
need to scroll over the the boot priority, then enter. Within that
section you would generally set up the DVD drive as first boot and the
HD as second boot. Following that, you would go to the HD priority
section and set up the drives in order, in your case you want the SATA
drive as first and if you leave the IDE attached (I would recommend
disconnecting the plug) set it up second. Save the changes and boot to
the DVD. Follow the setup instructions. Have the SATA controller
drivers ready on a thumb drive or floppy so you can install them where
it says 'Load Drivers' on the page where you select where to install
Vista.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:e2oyj.31763$w94.20470@pd7urf2no...
You are correct; I think I'm going off on a tangent with this problem.
I shouldn't have stated in my last post that I couldn't change the
boot priority, because you can. That was my mistake. But even when
you change the boot priority in the BIOS, the old ATA IDE drive will
still show up as the primary master and my new SATA drive will still
be the third master drive.

I am starting to think that concentrating on the primary and third
master drive concept has nothing to do with my problems installing
Vista on the SATA drive by itself.

And it still doesn't change the fact that I can't install Vista UNLESS
I keep that old ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary master on that
IDE port and the SATA drive plugged in as the third master drive.

I just want to get rid of that old ATA IDE drive and do a clean
install on my new SATA drive. How come Windows XP will do a clean
install with this kind of setup?


John Barnes wrote:
There is no chance that you are correct. Don't know why you can't
find it in the manual or by browsing thru the BIOS but I assure you
that there is no post 1999 BIOS where you can't change the boot
priority, and any MOBO that supports SATA surely does. 99% of the
BIOS's that support SATA also support boot time priority changes.
LOOK FOR IT

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Awkyj.29598$w94.4767@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for the advice, but for my motherboard, there is no way to
change the boot priority.

I made a mistake buying Vista that's for sure.

John Barnes wrote:
You need to go into your BIOS and set the boot priority to have the
SATA drive first hard drive in boot order. Read your manual for
how to enter your BIOS

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Kgayj.23811$pM4.788@pd7urf1no...
I have an MSI K9NSLI Platinum motherboard with a brand new Seagate
ST3250410AS 250GB SATA drive attached as the third master drive.
The primary master has an old school ATAPI DVDRW. Keep in mind
there is no way I can change a setting in the BIOS (or I don't
know how to do it) so that the SATA device is the primary master
drive, so these are permanent settings; the primary master and
slave drives connect to the IDE connector on my mobo. Now, I’ve
tried and tried and tried, but I can’t do a clean install nor an
upgrade of Windows Vista Home Premium x86 (from DVD) on that SATA
drive when it is hooked up alone (as the third master drive).

But here’s the kicker. If I plug in my old regular ATA IDE drive
as the primary master drive, the DVDRW as the primary slave, and
leave the SATA drive as the third master drive, I can install
Vista with no problems onto the SATA drive. I just have to leave
my old regular ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary master. If
I try to disconnect my old regular ATA IDE drive but leave the
SATA drive plugged in by itself, Windows Vista won’t boot.

What is the deal here? How come I can have the SATA by itself as
the third master and install WINDOWS XP with no problems and have
a workable system, but VISTA doesn’t install. I just paid over
$250 for Vista and I have to use this kind of setup to get Windows
Vista to work on a SATA drive by itself? This is lame. I want to
take that old IDE hard drive out of the box.

Here are my install screens:

First screen: “Windows is loading files...” bar goes to 100% and
the screen advances

Second screen: Black screen with moving green bar and Copyright
Microsoft Corporation on bottom. The green bar just keeps moving
on forever and doesn’t go to the next screen (which would be the
colorful “Install Windows” dialog box where you choose the
language, time/currency, and keyboard, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

A month between Bios versions? looks like they have a problem with their
bios

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:W8nzj.44529$pM4.13402@pd7urf1no...
You are correct DL, I was incorrect-You CAN install Vista on my system
with the SATA drive hooked up alone. Here's how I solved the problem; All
this time pulling my hair out and it was a problem I overlooked from the
outset:

Downgrade (NOT UPGRADE) the BIOS!!

My motherboard:

MSI K9N SLI PLATINUM

version of BIOS downgraded to:

v1.9, dated 2007-09-06

previous version of BIOS used:

v.1.10, dated 2007-10-04

DL wrote:
drive. There is no way I can install Vista on my system with the SATA
drive hooked up alone. It needs that IDE for some odd reason to write
all its boot parameters on. What a hokey setup indeed.

That is completely incorrect

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:TQ2zj.40006$pM4.24131@pd7urf1no...
No. That is incorrect. The page where I am stuck at is the SECOND
screen in the Vista install process. I can't hit any function keys or
anything, and the screen is stuck there with the green bar just
scrolling away forever (I've left it on that screen for a whole 24+
hours one time). The screen where you select the drive to install Vista
on is the EIGHTH screen in the Vista install process. Trust me, I've
installed Vista on this PC numerous times on the ATA IDE drive with no
problems.

Oh well. This is a dead issue that won't get resolved anyway, so I just
left the old ATA IDE drive plugged in and loaded Vista on the SATA
drive. There is no way I can install Vista on my system with the SATA
drive hooked up alone. It needs that IDE for some odd reason to write
all its boot parameters on. What a hokey setup indeed.

Thanks anyway.


John Barnes wrote:
If you get to the page where you have the scroll bar, you are way past
the load drivers which is on the page where you select the drive to
install Vista on. If you have Vista installed to the point where you
are booting to it to do an upgrade install, you need to hit F8 during
the last part of post and try safe mode. If you can get into safe
mode, the odds are you need to install the latest video drivers for
your card as the point of the scroll bar is where the video driver is
loaded.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:z3qyj.32675$w94.5183@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for your help John. I appreciate your input and would like to
resolve this problem soon. But take a look at the screen where I get
stuck:

http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/O.../image1_2.html

That's only the second screen in the Vista install process and I can
never get to the page where it asks me to 'Load Drivers.'

This Vista install should be straight forward but it isn't. I've
tried everything in the BIOS and even upgraded my BIOS to the latest
drivers from MSI, but still no dice.

John Barnes wrote:
Some BIOS's have a two step priority system. First you select the
order of priority of major categories, i.e. floppy DVD hd etc. Then
separately you set the priority of the HD within that category i.e.
IDE SATA1 etc. What shows up on the splash screen when you go thru
POST makes no difference. You need to enter the BIOS using whatever
key it says at the bottom of the POST screens, often the delete key,
when you enter the bios, usually the main categories are across the
top and you need to scroll over the the boot priority, then enter.
Within that section you would generally set up the DVD drive as first
boot and the HD as second boot. Following that, you would go to the
HD priority section and set up the drives in order, in your case you
want the SATA drive as first and if you leave the IDE attached (I
would recommend disconnecting the plug) set it up second. Save the
changes and boot to the DVD. Follow the setup instructions. Have
the SATA controller drivers ready on a thumb drive or floppy so you
can install them where it says 'Load Drivers' on the page where you
select where to install Vista.


"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:e2oyj.31763$w94.20470@pd7urf2no...
You are correct; I think I'm going off on a tangent with this
problem. I shouldn't have stated in my last post that I couldn't
change the boot priority, because you can. That was my mistake.
But even when you change the boot priority in the BIOS, the old ATA
IDE drive will still show up as the primary master and my new SATA
drive will still be the third master drive.

I am starting to think that concentrating on the primary and third
master drive concept has nothing to do with my problems installing
Vista on the SATA drive by itself.

And it still doesn't change the fact that I can't install Vista
UNLESS I keep that old ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary
master on that IDE port and the SATA drive plugged in as the third
master drive.

I just want to get rid of that old ATA IDE drive and do a clean
install on my new SATA drive. How come Windows XP will do a clean
install with this kind of setup?


John Barnes wrote:
There is no chance that you are correct. Don't know why you can't
find it in the manual or by browsing thru the BIOS but I assure you
that there is no post 1999 BIOS where you can't change the boot
priority, and any MOBO that supports SATA surely does. 99% of the
BIOS's that support SATA also support boot time priority changes.
LOOK FOR IT

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Awkyj.29598$w94.4767@pd7urf2no...
Thanks for the advice, but for my motherboard, there is no way to
change the boot priority.

I made a mistake buying Vista that's for sure.

John Barnes wrote:
You need to go into your BIOS and set the boot priority to have
the SATA drive first hard drive in boot order. Read your manual
for how to enter your BIOS

"Marshall Lymer" wrote in message
news:Kgayj.23811$pM4.788@pd7urf1no...
I have an MSI K9NSLI Platinum motherboard with a brand new
Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB SATA drive attached as the third
master drive. The primary master has an old school ATAPI DVDRW.
Keep in mind there is no way I can change a setting in the BIOS
(or I don't know how to do it) so that the SATA device is the
primary master drive, so these are permanent settings; the
primary master and slave drives connect to the IDE connector on
my mobo. Now, I’ve tried and tried and tried, but I can’t do a
clean install nor an upgrade of Windows Vista Home Premium x86
(from DVD) on that SATA drive when it is hooked up alone (as the
third master drive).

But here’s the kicker. If I plug in my old regular ATA IDE
drive as the primary master drive, the DVDRW as the primary
slave, and leave the SATA drive as the third master drive, I can
install Vista with no problems onto the SATA drive. I just have
to leave my old regular ATA IDE drive plugged in as the primary
master. If I try to disconnect my old regular ATA IDE drive but
leave the SATA drive plugged in by itself, Windows Vista won’t
boot.

What is the deal here? How come I can have the SATA by itself
as the third master and install WINDOWS XP with no problems and
have a workable system, but VISTA doesn’t install. I just paid
over $250 for Vista and I have to use this kind of setup to get
Windows Vista to work on a SATA drive by itself? This is lame.
I want to take that old IDE hard drive out of the box.

Here are my install screens:

First screen: “Windows is loading files...” bar goes to 100% and
the screen advances

Second screen: Black screen with moving green bar and Copyright
Microsoft Corporation on bottom. The green bar just keeps
moving on forever and doesn’t go to the next screen (which would
be the colorful “Install Windows” dialog box where you choose
the language, time/currency, and keyboard, etc.)

Thanks in advance.