XP install problem

Stelly · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:26

Hi All,
After using Vista 64 on my rig I decided to go back to XP Pro for the time being... well I got my Windows 98 disk and used fdisk to nuke the HDD... afte this I put in the Windows XP disk got to the checking your computers HDD then its does nothing but read the HDD... all the time, and does nothing else...

What am I missing? I really need help on this people!!!

Stelly

swinnie · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:30

have you formatted the hd?

Stelly · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:32

I have fdisked it created a primary partition...

Stelly

swinnie · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:33

But did you apply a file system i.e. NTFS, FAT32?

ns400r · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:38

Delete the existing partition. Then boot from the XP CD and use that to create a new partition.

Stelly · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:40

ok will try formatting it, didnt realise that you would have to do that after using Vista 64

Let you know how it goes...

Stelly

Stelly · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:40

ns400r said:
Delete the existing partition. Then boot from the XP CD and use that to create a new partition.

tried that... when trying to boot with XP it just reads the HDD and does nothing else...

Stelly

Stelly · 28 Oct 2007 at 15:48

Nice one, that worked, formatting it after deleting the partition

Stelly

swinnie · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:06

Glad it worked!!

Fuzz · 28 Oct 2007 at 16:10

Wish I was having similar luck. lol

been staring at this thing since 7pm yesterday.