I had windows xp home on 2 harddrives and windows xp pro on two others.
( I did this to evaluate the performance of win XP before I go out and buy it so I dont get screwed like I did when I purchased win ME)
all was well and then I decide to apply SP1 to all of them. upon reboot, all of the harddrives failed. non of them will boot to XP.
on two of them I had win 98 (dual boot) and win 98 will boot and run fine but xp will not.
I tried to reinstall (over a period of 3 days now, and on one day with NO-Sleep for over 24hrs) and every single re-installation attempt, I get all sorts of errors. mostly, a failure to copy all the files from the CD.
I finally got a copy of win xp home installed but strangest things are happening. when it boots, it gets to a point and then reboots. I try to boot in safe, debug etc etc and I get the sceen that says "it wasnt shut down properly...checking files....." and it either crashes or reboots by itself.
out of about 25 attempts to boot in debug mode, in loads all the way up to the desktop and then it crashes.
I put one of the harddrives into another computer (thinking that my BIOS on my other board has some how been locked by SP1. and still same errors.
I slaved the same harddrive to another harddrive in yet a 3rd computer and still...error messages durring the install.
I even used another copy of XP so if the problem is NOT
- BIOS locked
- scratched CD
- some sort of Boot Sector issue ( I formated after each unsuccessfull install just to make sure the HD is 'clean'
- Voodoo spell.
what could be the problem. can somebody help me out, I would hate to have to buy 4 new harddrives. these were small old harddrives of only 8gigs each. (my regular working drives are one 30 gig and one 40 gig)
I use the small drives to test out software before I install it to my 'main' drives.
thnx.
:shoot3:
( I did this to evaluate the performance of win XP before I go out and buy it so I dont get screwed like I did when I purchased win ME)
all was well and then I decide to apply SP1 to all of them. upon reboot, all of the harddrives failed. non of them will boot to XP.
on two of them I had win 98 (dual boot) and win 98 will boot and run fine but xp will not.
I tried to reinstall (over a period of 3 days now, and on one day with NO-Sleep for over 24hrs) and every single re-installation attempt, I get all sorts of errors. mostly, a failure to copy all the files from the CD.
I finally got a copy of win xp home installed but strangest things are happening. when it boots, it gets to a point and then reboots. I try to boot in safe, debug etc etc and I get the sceen that says "it wasnt shut down properly...checking files....." and it either crashes or reboots by itself.
out of about 25 attempts to boot in debug mode, in loads all the way up to the desktop and then it crashes.
I put one of the harddrives into another computer (thinking that my BIOS on my other board has some how been locked by SP1. and still same errors.
I slaved the same harddrive to another harddrive in yet a 3rd computer and still...error messages durring the install.
I even used another copy of XP so if the problem is NOT
- BIOS locked
- scratched CD
- some sort of Boot Sector issue ( I formated after each unsuccessfull install just to make sure the HD is 'clean'
- Voodoo spell.
what could be the problem. can somebody help me out, I would hate to have to buy 4 new harddrives. these were small old harddrives of only 8gigs each. (my regular working drives are one 30 gig and one 40 gig)
I use the small drives to test out software before I install it to my 'main' drives.
thnx.
:shoot3:
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