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I have an HP machine and I wanted to install WIN XP. So
I wiped out the content, formatted (through win xp) and
let xp do all the work. It formatted ok, copied the
files to the hard drive ok and finished ok. The problem
is when it reboots; it cannot read form the drive giving
me an "Error reading from drive" (or something similar).
I made sure that the hard drive is a master and the only
one in the machine.
I also made sure that the BIOS recognize the hard drive
(even though I did not change it).
I became desperate and asked a technician. he said the
hard drive is shot. So I went and bought another 80GB
hard drive and the same thing happened. I then assumed
that it might be because the hard drive is too big, so I
let WIN XP partition the drive for 20GB and install
itself on that partition, made it active and bootable.
Well... the same thing happened again. I remember the
good old days when I had the reliable (Packard Bell..
yeah). I had a similar problem and it turned out that
the machine expects the boot sector be on track 1 instead
of 0 (or the reverse). I have not tried this option yet
because I do not want to waist another 3 hours waiting
for the friken thing to install.
Is there something special I have to do to get WIN XP to
boot on an HP machine?
TIA
I have an HP machine and I wanted to install WIN XP. So
I wiped out the content, formatted (through win xp) and
let xp do all the work. It formatted ok, copied the
files to the hard drive ok and finished ok. The problem
is when it reboots; it cannot read form the drive giving
me an "Error reading from drive" (or something similar).
I made sure that the hard drive is a master and the only
one in the machine.
I also made sure that the BIOS recognize the hard drive
(even though I did not change it).
I became desperate and asked a technician. he said the
hard drive is shot. So I went and bought another 80GB
hard drive and the same thing happened. I then assumed
that it might be because the hard drive is too big, so I
let WIN XP partition the drive for 20GB and install
itself on that partition, made it active and bootable.
Well... the same thing happened again. I remember the
good old days when I had the reliable (Packard Bell..
yeah). I had a similar problem and it turned out that
the machine expects the boot sector be on track 1 instead
of 0 (or the reverse). I have not tried this option yet
because I do not want to waist another 3 hours waiting
for the friken thing to install.
Is there something special I have to do to get WIN XP to
boot on an HP machine?
TIA