New Hard Drive

[SniperRon]

Heres from the start of the problem.

My hard drive went bad so i went a bought a new on and put it in. then went to load winxp it goes through the partition and copies files to install Xp then u get the 15sec prompt till it restart puter. Heres where the problem is after restarting it starts everything over again like it forgot what it was doing. I have tried taking disk out at restart bad boot prompt.

thanx for any help

 

[edfair]

CD set for 1st in the boot chain?

Ed Fair
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[SniperRon]

Yes

tried another hardrive also same problem as before

 

[edfair]

Every time the machine boots with the CD in place it starts at the same place. That is the way it is designed.

It sounds like you have a problem in the installation of the hard drive. If the hard drive was seen XP should fdisk and format it. Then when it gets done with the copy and reboots it should go to the C:, assuming you take the CD out.

The bad boot is another indication.

You might want to look in the CMOS to see what the system has found for you new drive, or if it still has the information for the old drive.

You may have an autodetectHD available, if so use it.

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[SniperRon]

The drive is clean and it never loads xp it just restarts after coping temp files to the drive then it start what it just did all over again. It never get to the the screen where it tells ya 56 min or somthin like that till windows is don istalling.

 

[edfair]

Suggest that you download a 98SE bootdisk, or get one somewhere, and use it to diagnose your hard drive problems.
Use fdisk ,partition info, to see what is there, and look at the C: to see if anything is there.

What does autodetect show?

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[wolluf]

I think you have a hardware issue (btw - is the bios virus checker disabled - it interferes with setting up wondows).

If the bios virus not the issue, try installing with minimal hardware (no sound, network, modem cards, CD writer, zip drive etc) - also either just use one memory stick or get one from elsewhere.