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As long as you can see both the drives in the BIOS then
there should be no problem. Set the machine to boot from the CD and stick the XP disc in and run the format / partition tools from that, There is no need for a boot disk. You should get a screen listing your drives and choose the 20gb and go from there. -----Original Message----- Hi, 4 days on and I'm still having problems re-installing WinXP. Have formatted both hard drives 22gb and 40gb. Set the smallest as main drive in the bios. Formatted it using a floppy boot disk and then tried to install winxp. Runs through the process as far as the "starting windows" screen then still locks up! Ran a PCDoctor disk to check everything and the only error it comes up with is that there's no Hard Disk Controllers.Is this what's causing me problems? What else should I be looing for? It never was this difficult formatting and re-installing Win98. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. I'm probably overlooking the obvious. T.I.A. Kenny M . |
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Thanks Murray,
I put in the XPdisc and it just runs for a short time and locks up. How do I access the format and partition tools from it? Sorry to sound so thick! "Murray" wrote in message ... As long as you can see both the drives in the BIOS then there should be no problem. Set the machine to boot from the CD and stick the XP disc in and run the format / partition tools from that, There is no need for a boot disk. You should get a screen listing your drives and choose the 20gb and go from there. -----Original Message----- Hi, 4 days on and I'm still having problems re-installing WinXP. Have formatted both hard drives 22gb and 40gb. Set the smallest as main drive in the bios. Formatted it using a floppy boot disk and then tried to install winxp. Runs through the process as far as the "starting windows" screen then still locks up! Ran a PCDoctor disk to check everything and the only error it comes up with is that there's no Hard Disk Controllers.Is this what's causing me problems? What else should I be looing for? It never was this difficult formatting and re-installing Win98. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. I'm probably overlooking the obvious. T.I.A. Kenny M . |
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I tried to boot from cd and it wouldn't so where can I get a boot floppy?
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Greetings --
All legitimate WinXP installations CDs are bootable. You may need to re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD. Consult your PC's manual. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "jloyzaga" wrote in message news I tried to boot from cd and it wouldn't so where can I get a boot floppy? |
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