HDD BOOT UP PROBLEM!

jrodga2k5

jrodga2k5

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Well I had Vista installed on a 250gb sata II hdd. I then decided nah its not working for the games I wanted and I proceeded to format the drive, however the problem which is persisting now is that while it can get through all of the Windows XPMCE or even Vista Installation after the PC restarts it doesnt boot up. It seemed to freeze after it asks any key to boot disk. Obviously I am not pressing anything here then also in the bios I tried booting from HDD first but that still doesnt seem to continue the process.

I can access the drive as an additional HDD in Windows and can save anything to it no problem that way. It just wont continue any windows set up after it asks for the restart.

Iv tried other Sata and even IDE harddrives I have and all are fine and dont experience this problem.

I feel Vista may have done something here, does anyone know of any ways I can rectify this really annoying problem? :confused:
 
It can easily be changed, iv tried combinations, iv got a total of 3 HDD's but I have tried disconnecting the other 2 and obviously thus making this the default master.

THe boot order is set to DVD Drive, HDD Drive(the sata II drive im trying to use), Nothing.

This obviously allows me to access the Disc then start the attempt at a windows installation. Pretty simple thing there so I doubt there is no problem with that.
 
How far do you get through the XP install process?

Do you delete and recreate the partition on the disk during the install?
 
rpstewart said:
How far do you get through the XP install process?

Do you delete and recreate the partition on the disk during the install?
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THats as far as I can get, it installs the setup files then prompts that it wants to reboot, then when it does, it just gets to a black screen with a flashing white underscore as if its waiting to do something, at this point nothing happens so I just have to manually turn off the system.
 
At this point I'd be tempted to try and make the HDD bootable with a DOS or Win95/8 startup disk just to prove that it will actually boot.

You'll be able to get a boot disk from bootdisk.com but I'm not sure how confident you are with DOS.
 
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