Compaq 5000 series fresh install problem

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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:21:55 +0100, Tony
<rafvzREWO@vegmail.com> wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I made a fresh system for some friends.
>Formated the 40gb drive NTFS Logical (I and active (H all ok.
>Installed Windows XP Pro on first partition on the designated H: drive
>label as I installed it on my running system (MSI-platform)
>I formed the boot.ini as prescribed 0,0,0,1 blabla...
>Then I attached it to the IDE0 and set it as master and it boots and runs
>smoothly.
>The software needed for them was installed and a fresh restart was perfect
>!
>
>Now the tricky part ;
>I put it in the Compaq system 5028BE with latest BIOS flashed 128 mb ram
>on a UWAVE 786K1-platform in the IDE0 as master.
>Set up the rigt bootorder in BIOS and restarted. It detects the disk in
>the IDE but doesn't start up the OS...
>'error loading operating system'
>
>Very strange error keeping in mind that on another platform with the same
>settings it runs smoothly...
>
>Help is on the way ?
>
>ps: Don't try to convince me not buying Compaq syss because I'll never
>will ;-)


If I understand your description correctly then it sounds
like it might be a related problem to the one I'm having,
see the thread "booting Presario 5330 from an ATA/133 card".

Not that that helps either of us... :-(

Brian.

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Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?)

I'll do that - dough I wonder what settings are different in the OS as
installed on the disk except for the hardware settings what can be altered
by cab files located on the disk ?
since I'm a bit booby forgive me.


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 04:43:19 +0100, <returnoftheyeti@aol.com> wrote:

> Sounds like you installed the OS in one machine and then moved the
> drive to another machine. No wonder it won't boot the OS. Try
> installing the OS on the machine you want to use it on.