Flummoxed...

[John]

At this stage I need serious help.Could not get Xp to load on
formatted drive no matter what so I removed the drive and put it
into another pc and lo and behold xp loaded ok.Took it back to the original
pc and it wont boot.Makes no effort to even offer to start.Anyone got an
idea.This sage has been going for weeks but
I really only attempted to do something yesterday.

History:Pc messed up using ghost(not by me) and bios chip got some bent legs
but sorted all these problems(with some help from this board yesterday)Tried
to load Various versions of XP(all legit) and finally stuck in WIN 98 AND IT
LOADED ok.

any idea whats up Doc?

[CH]

Well this is a far fetched idea but any c hance this hard drive is setup as
a slave instead of primary master? Could your cmos settings have gotten
changed and it doesn't see this drive as a bootable drive so it skips it all
together in the boot sequence? Can you boot the computer from a:\ and then
switch to this HD and run XP?

Probably has no bearing but ideas you might want to eliminate.
Good Luck,
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"John" > wrote in message
...
> At this stage I need serious help.Could not get Xp to load on
> formatted drive no matter what so I removed the drive and put it
> into another pc and lo and behold xp loaded ok.Took it back to the
original
> pc and it wont boot.Makes no effort to even offer to start.Anyone got an
> idea.This sage has been going for weeks but
> I really only attempted to do something yesterday.
>
> History:Pc messed up using ghost(not by me) and bios chip got some bent
legs
> but sorted all these problems(with some help from this board
yesterday)Tried
> to load Various versions of XP(all legit) and finally stuck in WIN 98 AND
IT
> LOADED ok.
>
> any idea whats up Doc?
>
>

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Now you have Windows 98 on the PC run the compatibility checked option that
appears when you put the Windows XP CD in the drive.
This may give you some pointers to issues.

--
Regards,

Mike
--
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
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"John" > wrote in message
...
> At this stage I need serious help.Could not get Xp to load on
> formatted drive no matter what so I removed the drive and put it
> into another pc and lo and behold xp loaded ok.Took it back to the
original
> pc and it wont boot.Makes no effort to even offer to start.Anyone got an
> idea.This sage has been going for weeks but
> I really only attempted to do something yesterday.
>
> History:Pc messed up using ghost(not by me) and bios chip got some bent
legs
> but sorted all these problems(with some help from this board
yesterday)Tried
> to load Various versions of XP(all legit) and finally stuck in WIN 98 AND
IT
> LOADED ok.
>
> any idea whats up Doc?
>
>

[John]

Already tied that and nothing.
"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" > wrote in message
...
> Now you have Windows 98 on the PC run the compatibility checked option
that
> appears when you put the Windows XP CD in the drive.
> This may give you some pointers to issues.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights
>
> Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions.
> Please use these newsgroups
>
> "John" > wrote in message
> ...
> > At this stage I need serious help.Could not get Xp to load on
> > formatted drive no matter what so I removed the drive and put it
> > into another pc and lo and behold xp loaded ok.Took it back to the
> original
> > pc and it wont boot.Makes no effort to even offer to start.Anyone got
an
> > idea.This sage has been going for weeks but
> > I really only attempted to do something yesterday.
> >
> > History:Pc messed up using ghost(not by me) and bios chip got some bent
> legs
> > but sorted all these problems(with some help from this board
> yesterday)Tried
> > to load Various versions of XP(all legit) and finally stuck in WIN 98
AND
> IT
> > LOADED ok.
> >
> > any idea whats up Doc?
> >
> >
>
>