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Hard Drive Prevents any other windows device from loading
I have a working sta drive, but I needed a bigger HD. Formatted the new hd with xp installation disk and installed windows. Installation seemed to go OK and booted into windows OK. After a few re-boots, it only boots into windows up to the xp splash screen. So far probably sounds like a routine problem, but it gets more bizarre. The following are some of the observations. 1. Will not boot into safe mode. 2. Old HD works fine, BUT old HD ( selected to boot in bios) will not boot if newer HD is hooked to a sata controller. 3. Cannot format new hd using XP installation CD, since it freezes before it gets to formatting option. 4. Tried BartPE bootable system from thumbdrive, which has alwary worked before. 5. It appears that the hd is OK, since I can boot with a Linux based CD and see the HD. 6. While the Linux based cd works and can boot with the new hd in the system, any device ( other hd, cd, or thumbdrive with a windows based syetem freezes sith the new hd attached. 7. Finally. formatting tihe the linux based cd allowed me to successfully install windows.
Is it possible that the new cd has such a corrupted windows installation that is will not allow any other device with a windows type sytem ( including a bartpe environment)to boot .
Re: Hard Drive Prevents any other windows device from...
Hi, Mark Here. Yes the setup on the xp install puts drivers into memory, but being an older version of windows B4 sta was out it does not have drivers to support it.
You could go to Microsoft & search for a new version of setup install drivers that includes sta, & download to thumb. Really typical Windows Failure (driver not available freeze up or blue screen).
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Swapping the hard drive from the Dell into the Gateway will not work because the Dell hard drive has been installed with Dell specific drivers and configurations. When you install the Dell hard drive into the Gateway you need to wipe the hard drive and install a fresh copy Windows XP onto this hard drive and the Gateway device drivers etc.
check the HD if its properly inserted,if the old one is working before then the new one you bought my be a damage one. try to replace another HD to see if which HD is working or not.
Are you referring to the file system?
Do you have a copy of DOS?
I think you want to create a partition using the FAT16 File System.
If you have it use FDISK (old DOS app), once it loads it asks you if you want to enable large disk support - just say no and then delete all current partitions on your HD and recreate a new one.
Warning: Make sure you have the correct drive selected as this will delete everything on the drive.
FAT16 Partitions can only go up to 2GB in size, so you cant make any bigger ones with it.
Partition Magic and programs like that can also be used to manage disk partitions. Let me know if you need anything else
You need to format your hard drive. Set your boot device to cdrom in your bios. Boot using xp cd.DO a reinstall of windows and it should give you the option to format or delete partitions on your hard drive. if that doesnt work try putting the hard drive in another computer to see if it works. Or you can buy a hard drive enclosure that allows you to use your hard drive as an external device.
Vista and Win7 lite versions dont have all the drivers and functions of the full version, so some issue will always keep coming up....
if u can install XP then do this
if u know how to partition ur main internal HD then install XP and Vista in different partitions...
when windows starts..choose XP to load.
then try if ur Ext HD works in XP...
else let me know i will guid u the next steps...
The first thing is to make sure that your CD/DVD drive has the windows disk in it. Also check drive C which is where the windows will be installed. It may require that it is hard formated. Hard formatted means "format x /u" [format-space-drive to be formatted-space-right slash-u]. This will place the drive for "windows xp sp2", all of it, to one pass of zeroes. So, once we have a clean drive C and the installation disc is inserted into the CD/DVD drive, you may proceed to install. You will need to find "install" or "setup" and start it on he "RUN" mode. Any questions or help get back to me. CONSTANTIN (arzconst)
Check your BIOS settings as well.
Are both drives by the same manufacturer? Also how do you have them jumpered?
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