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| Thread ID: 122938 | 2012-01-22 05:17:00 | WinXP setup won't continue, blank screen | Vicx (11114) | Press F1 |
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| 1255484 | 2012-01-22 12:49:00 | Everything worked fine, now in the process of installing all my apps and restoring from the 320gb. I think the problem due to the drive letters. The 320gb on this is split into 2 partitions, C: and G:, the 1TB is split into E: and F:, and the new HDD is H: But when I'm using the newly installed XP on the new HDD, the partition for that is D:, and the 320gb is C: and all the others are something else.. I hope that won't become problem when it's time to remove the 320gb. |
Vicx (11114) | ||
| 1255485 | 2012-01-22 20:07:00 | But when I'm using the newly installed XP on the new HDD, the partition for that is D:, and the 320gb is C: and all the others are something else.. I hope that won't become problem when it's time to remove the 320gb. :groan: Didn't follow the suggestions did ya! :) The problem has been caused because you have all the other HDD's still attached. Since you already had a working OS on another drive, the fresh install goes to the next Drive letter. Had you have disconnected all together HDD's as suggested you wouldn't have this outcome. In the previous reply posted: anyway I'm going to disconnect both HDDs and resume the installation just to be safe. I think it's getting a bit confused. = to late,the drive letters, boot order will have already been written, you should have done this originally and avoided any possible conflicts. re your last comment about becoming a problem -- what may happen is it wont boot, as its looking for the other partitions/drives, so you would have to alter the boot.ini to match. If it does boot OK, what you may find will happen is when installing programs and the other drives are not there, then normally programs by default install to drive C ( thats how they are written) , but because yours is D, they wont work, so when you install you may have to select drive D manually as the location. "If" by some chance everything does work, it would have been by good luck, but expect problems at some time. Best of luck though. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1255486 | 2012-01-22 22:12:00 | for some reason I couldn't continue the installation without the 320gb plugged in, I kept getting the error "NTLDR is missing" so I had to plug in the 320gb back in, no idea why though. Can't I just rename all drive letters in EASEUS anyway? I could rename C to something else, then the current D to C, then the old C to whatever. If not, maybe I'll try the whole process again.. :( oh and thanks to both you and Speedy, I really appreciate the help, wouldn't have made it this far without you. edit: maybe swapping the 320gb to SATA3 and the new HDD to SATA1 on the motherboard might solve it. |
Vicx (11114) | ||
| 1255487 | 2012-01-22 22:28:00 | I would read the manual, and make sure the sata ports youre putting the hdds on support hdd's. Some ports only support optical devices. What BIOS is on it at the mo?? It looks like 0401 fixes some boot up failure issues. The latest BIOS (non-beta) is 1104. If you get this, make sure you read the warning on the ASUS site The new Marvell 6111 Option ROM must be used in conjunction with driver version V1.2.0.51 or later. Please make sure you update Marvell 6111 driver after the BIOS update. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: support.asus.com Update Marvell 6111 Option ROM to version L69. Fix sometimes the system may be unable to resume from S3 under WinXP 64. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1255488 | 2012-01-22 22:50:00 | Can't I just rename all drive letters in EASEUS anyway? I could rename C to something else, then the current D to C, then the old C to whatever After following on from Speedys post -- generally no you cant just change the OS drive letter for the main drive. The non booting (OS) drives, yeah generally can. When installing the registry creates many references to the OS drive letter (in this case D) so while you can change the Drive letter, the registry entries will still be all "up the whop" so to speak :D Thats why I made the comment in the previous post saying you may have problems when the other OS drive is disconnected, the boot loader is pointing to that, not the one it should be. While its easy enough to change the path and fix NTLDR missing, the reg entries as mentioned above still wont be correct, and it will cause all sorts of 'problems" sooner or later. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1255489 | 2012-01-23 05:13:00 | Ok I'm all done. Unplugged the other HDDs, plugged the new HDD into SATA1. Booted with WinXP CD and installed as usual, rebooted and continued to the GUI install part, everything went perfectly. New XP install is on C: for the new HDD this time, not D. Moral of the story, keep it simple, I'll remember that for next time. with all drives plugged back in, it automatically loads the new XP install, doesn't even give me a boot menu, probably because the new drive is C. To load the old XP on the old drive, I have to plug it in again, then I get the boot menu, including the new install, even though it doesn't work of course (it's not plugged in). Will finish backing everything up now then will restore. Again, a huge thanks to both you guys for helping me out, I immensely appreciate the help, would be lost otherwise. |
Vicx (11114) | ||
| 1255490 | 2012-01-23 05:18:00 | You usually leave the hdds connected if you want a boot menu (so, you can select which one you want to boot from). After, you install whatever OS. Or this may fix it for you (neosmart.net) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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