I've been struggling with this for 2 weeks! I have several questions below.
To make long story short;
I got a replacement Maxtor 40 GB hard drive to be replaced in my Cicerio computer.
I tried many different things but nothing is working out, it should not be this difficult.
I have installed hd's before with no problem, I even installed a borrowed 10GB disk before my replacement arrived. I didn't have to partition or format it.
Tech support from Maxtor says make drive master, use their cable, run their powermax ultility disk. I did all this & drive is working fine.
So far I've used a win98 boot disk to partition using fdisk, and my restore winxp home cd.
Does winxp handle both partitioning & formating? I know in win 95 you create a boot disk, do fdisk, then format, then install windows.
The installation of WinXp home goes great until I reboot and get the message;
Internal setup error, could not find a place for a swap file, setup can not continue.
What does this mean, & what should I do next?
I was also using partitionmagic before installing windows xphome. Did I do something wrong or screw something up?
Any comments are appreciated; in the mean time, I'm still searching MS knowledge base for anwsers.
regards Mark
To make long story short;
I got a replacement Maxtor 40 GB hard drive to be replaced in my Cicerio computer.
I tried many different things but nothing is working out, it should not be this difficult.
I have installed hd's before with no problem, I even installed a borrowed 10GB disk before my replacement arrived. I didn't have to partition or format it.
Tech support from Maxtor says make drive master, use their cable, run their powermax ultility disk. I did all this & drive is working fine.
So far I've used a win98 boot disk to partition using fdisk, and my restore winxp home cd.
Does winxp handle both partitioning & formating? I know in win 95 you create a boot disk, do fdisk, then format, then install windows.
The installation of WinXp home goes great until I reboot and get the message;
Internal setup error, could not find a place for a swap file, setup can not continue.
What does this mean, & what should I do next?
I was also using partitionmagic before installing windows xphome. Did I do something wrong or screw something up?
Any comments are appreciated; in the mean time, I'm still searching MS knowledge base for anwsers.
regards Mark