Problems installing windows xp on SSD

DavieJG

DavieJG

DavieJG

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Hi guys,

Help needed i'm attempting to reinstall windows XP on an old p4 machine. The mobo is a gigabyte 8I848-PM. I got a gen1 x25-m 80gb SSD of the members market to give it a new lease of life, however, i'm having trouble installing windows on it.

I booted from the windows CD, deleted the partition, made a new one and setup copies files and then the machine rebooted.

Upon restarting i get the message "error loading operating system".

The BIOS detects the drive as the IDE Channel 0 master and the drive is physically plugged into sata0 on the mobo.

Anybody got any ideas how i can get xp onto this drive?

Cheers.
 
No other drives plugged in. The SSD is connected to the port that the previous boot device was plugged into.

I can't see AHCI anywhere in the BIOS, i think it may be a bit old for that.
 
Boot priority is CD -> HDD

I boot to CD first time round which is supposed to copy the necessary setup files across. Once it restarts it should just boot from the SSD and continue setup.

If i boot from CD after the restart then it just wants to do phase 1 again.
 
SSD was bought off members market. It seems ok, just wondering though if something that has been installed on there before is messing things up. Maybe a complete wipe (all zero tool) might do the job.
 
after a full erase using kill disk (all zero write), setup was able to complete. Something must have been messed up in the MBR or similar. Anyways, solved, cheers for the suggestions
 
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