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| Thread ID: 83978 | 2007-10-20 01:24:00 | XP istallation on 320 gig drive | JackStraw (6573) | Press F1 |
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| 603199 | 2007-10-20 01:24:00 | A few months ago I bought a 320 gig drive and thought it would be a good idea to do a fresh install of XP. After the problem of drive size raised its ugly head I reformatted and partitioned the drive a 170 gig, a 117 gig and a 14.7 for the os, figuring this should be fine. Anyhoo. after the install all was not well so I went back to the old drive and used that os. Last week I thought I'd give it another go. I swapped the drives in BIOS and booted up. the boot up stalled at the loading screen so I decided to format the 14.7 partition and reinstall This screwed up the mbr and I could no longer access the other partitions. Using Partition recovery from Active@ I recovered the partitions and tried again totally bolloxing up the drive again. With the help of Active@ excellent support I recovered the drive again. So. I still want to install XP on this 14.7 partition but as you can assume I am a bit wary. Could running the drive as slave be the problem? both are set as master on the jumpers (IDE drives on cable select and choosing boot order from BIOS) I would have thought this should be simple. Any Ideas out there? |
JackStraw (6573) | ||
| 603200 | 2007-10-20 01:27:00 | A drive being slave is no problem if it is selected as primary booting device is hard disk group priority. Give it a try again, i think it will work this time. | jessicaroy (12943) | ||
| 603201 | 2007-10-20 01:28:00 | Well dont put it on cable select. And it might be better if you slipstream SP1 or 2, if neither have been slipstreamed yet. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 603202 | 2007-10-20 01:37:00 | Why do you say dont put it on cable select, surley that is better than using the jumper settings in this case? Oh could you tell me how to do the slpstreaming of XP SP2, I have both disks Thanks |
JackStraw (6573) | ||
| 603203 | 2007-10-20 01:58:00 | Why do you say dont put it on cable select, surley that is better than using the jumper settings in this case? Umm no, not necessarily. Oh could you tell me how to do the slpstreaming of XP SP2, I have both disks Thanks Follow this if you want to slipstream SP2 (www.winsupersite.com) Then you have to reburn the lot back to cd, and hopefully it boots. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 603204 | 2007-10-20 02:02:00 | [quote=Speedy Gonzales;605323]Umm no, not necessarily . *Don't be so coy . Tell me what you really mean ;-) |
JackStraw (6573) | ||
| 603205 | 2007-10-20 02:04:00 | *Don't be so coy. Tell me what you really mean ;-) It doesnt always work on CS thats why. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 603206 | 2007-10-20 03:03:00 | So, are you saying I should set the jumpers on the hard drives as master and slave? If I do that how can I switch between drives? |
JackStraw (6573) | ||
| 603207 | 2007-10-20 03:05:00 | It doesnt always work on CS thats why. I'll second that:thumbs: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 603208 | 2007-10-20 03:21:00 | So, are you saying I should set the jumpers on the hard drives as master and slave? Thats what I'm saying If I do that how can I switch between drives? If your system has a boot menu, use it to select a hdd. What else is on it besides XP?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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