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The computer boots off of the CD for the first part of the install process.
For all subsequent parts of the install, the computer must boot off of the
hard drive, but you must have the Windows XP CD in the CD tray for the
install program to access. It is up to YOU to make this happen on "your"
computer. It may not occur automatically.
Many/most new computer will ask you during booting, if you have a bootable
CD installed, if you want to boot from the CD. The information may instruct
you to press the "space" bar, or any other key to make this happen. With
some of the newer computer you are "protected?" from viewing this very
confusing (being facetious here) information by being shown a splash screen
from the computer manufacturer. This splash screen can usually be turned off
in the bios (good riddance).
When the first part of the install has completed, and the computer reboots,
DO NOT initiate the "boot from CD" sequence again. Allow the computer to
boot normally to continue with the installation.
If you have an older PC, you may have to initially go into the computer's
bios and manually set the boot sequence to boot from the CD first, with the
hard drive as a second boot device. This will allow the computer to start
the install process. If this is the case, after the first part of the
install has completed, you must again go into the bios and re-adjust the
boot sequence so that the hard drive becomes the first boot device and the
CD becomes the second device.
After that, the install will continue.
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
"Tulnio" <tulnio2000@netscape.net> wrote in message
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>I have a Celeron 1.3 GHz with 512 RAM and no hard drive I am working on
> for a friend. Put in a new SeaGate 80 Gig Hard drive and the trouble
> began. Booted the machine with WinXP cd and partitioned and formatted
> the drive. Windows coppied files to the drive and rebooted. Then the
> system doesn't recognize the drive and can't finish the installation of
> Windows. ERD commander shows that the files are on C:, but system won't
> boot off of the drive.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tulnio
>