OEM copy of WindowsXP H.E

[Jason]

Hello,
I'm helping a friend of mine build a computer and
everything is going smooth until we get to the install
windows part. It turns out that my friend bought a OEM
version of WindowsXP H.E! He got it from a website,I
think it was: www.newegg.com Well at first I thought
that wasn't a big deal, so I put in the cd to start the
setup, and after a little bit windows setup tells me that
it can't find my hard drive! The bios dectects the hard
drive fine! But for some reason windows setup doesn't see
it, I know this is a new unformatted drive and I thought
windwos whould do the formating. Well anyway, I had to
use the boot diskette that came with the hard drive, but
it needed to copy "boot files" to the drive! So I used an
old Win98 boot disk that we had laying around.
Anyway, once I did that and restarted with the WinXP
cd in, then setup ran fine, it did what it was suppose
to, it formated the hard drive with "NTFS" and everything
went good after that. Now windows is fully installed and
running.
Now here is the problem...whenver my friend restarted
his computer it aks for the WinXp cd?!! But once you do
that it runs fine! I have no idea why it needs the cd
everytime to start up!! Is it the OEM version we got??
And to top it all.....he went online and activated
windows today...them a few hours later he rebooted his
computer and it won't load windows at all!!! We've tried
putting the cd in and leaving it out and still won't load
Windows. Now when it asks for the cd during boot up, it
starts setup all over again!!! It goes to the
screen "Setup is detecting your hardware config" What the
hell??!! We've already been through that! Windows was
running nice...before we activated it! Please I need
help!! Are we better off just buying the "Retail" version
and starting all over again?
post here or email me.

[George Cruppi]

That's because you left the cdrom in the drive all thru the setup and reboot
stage so XP expects the cdrom to be there. Do a repair install and take out
the cdrom when prompted.


"Jason" > wrote in message
...
> Hello,
> I'm helping a friend of mine build a computer and
> everything is going smooth until we get to the install
> windows part. It turns out that my friend bought a OEM
> version of WindowsXP H.E! He got it from a website,I
> think it was: www.newegg.com Well at first I thought
> that wasn't a big deal, so I put in the cd to start the
> setup, and after a little bit windows setup tells me that
> it can't find my hard drive! The bios dectects the hard
> drive fine! But for some reason windows setup doesn't see
> it, I know this is a new unformatted drive and I thought
> windwos whould do the formating. Well anyway, I had to
> use the boot diskette that came with the hard drive, but
> it needed to copy "boot files" to the drive! So I used an
> old Win98 boot disk that we had laying around.
> Anyway, once I did that and restarted with the WinXP
> cd in, then setup ran fine, it did what it was suppose
> to, it formated the hard drive with "NTFS" and everything
> went good after that. Now windows is fully installed and
> running.
> Now here is the problem...whenver my friend restarted
> his computer it aks for the WinXp cd?!! But once you do
> that it runs fine! I have no idea why it needs the cd
> everytime to start up!! Is it the OEM version we got??
> And to top it all.....he went online and activated
> windows today...them a few hours later he rebooted his
> computer and it won't load windows at all!!! We've tried
> putting the cd in and leaving it out and still won't load
> Windows. Now when it asks for the cd during boot up, it
> starts setup all over again!!! It goes to the
> screen "Setup is detecting your hardware config" What the
> hell??!! We've already been through that! Windows was
> running nice...before we activated it! Please I need
> help!! Are we better off just buying the "Retail" version
> and starting all over again?
> post here or email me.

[Jim Macklin]

New Egg is a good company, fair prices and fast service.

When building a computer the first time, most of the work
involved is choosing hardware and software to be all the
things you want and to allow easy and economical updating.
Also a little study of the software install, hard drive
configuration process will save a lot of time and trouble.


"George Cruppi" > wrote in message
...
| That's because you left the cdrom in the drive all thru
the setup and reboot
| stage so XP expects the cdrom to be there. Do a repair
install and take out
| the cdrom when prompted.
|
|
| "Jason" > wrote in message
| ...
| > Hello,
| > I'm helping a friend of mine build a computer and
| > everything is going smooth until we get to the install
| > windows part. It turns out that my friend bought a OEM
| > version of WindowsXP H.E! He got it from a website,I
| > think it was: www.newegg.com Well at first I thought
| > that wasn't a big deal, so I put in the cd to start the
| > setup, and after a little bit windows setup tells me
that
| > it can't find my hard drive! The bios dectects the hard
| > drive fine! But for some reason windows setup doesn't
see
| > it, I know this is a new unformatted drive and I thought
| > windwos whould do the formating. Well anyway, I had to
| > use the boot diskette that came with the hard drive, but
| > it needed to copy "boot files" to the drive! So I used
an
| > old Win98 boot disk that we had laying around.
| > Anyway, once I did that and restarted with the WinXP
| > cd in, then setup ran fine, it did what it was suppose
| > to, it formated the hard drive with "NTFS" and
everything
| > went good after that. Now windows is fully installed and
| > running.
| > Now here is the problem...whenver my friend restarted
| > his computer it aks for the WinXp cd?!! But once you do
| > that it runs fine! I have no idea why it needs the cd
| > everytime to start up!! Is it the OEM version we got??
| > And to top it all.....he went online and activated
| > windows today...them a few hours later he rebooted his
| > computer and it won't load windows at all!!! We've tried
| > putting the cd in and leaving it out and still won't
load
| > Windows. Now when it asks for the cd during boot up, it
| > starts setup all over again!!! It goes to the
| > screen "Setup is detecting your hardware config" What
the
| > hell??!! We've already been through that! Windows was
| > running nice...before we activated it! Please I need
| > help!! Are we better off just buying the "Retail"
version
| > and starting all over again?
| > post here or email me.
|
|