Is it possible to have this much of a messed up xp installation?

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bruce b

I have a working sta drive, but I needed a bigger HD. Formatted the new hd
with xp installation disk and installed windows. Installation seemed to go OK
and booted into windows OK. After a few re-boots, it only boots into windows
up to the xp splash screen. So far probably sounds like a routine problem,
but it gets more bizarre. The following are some of the observations.
1. Will not boot into safe mode.
2. Old HD works fine, BUT old HD ( selected to boot in bios) will not boot
if newer HD is hooked to a sata controller.
3. Cannot format new hd using XP installation CD, since it freezes before
it gets to formatting option.
4. Tried BartPE bootable system from thumbdrive, which has alwary worked
before.
5. It appears that the hd is OK, since I can boot with a Linux based CD and
see the HD.
6. While the Linux based cd works and can boot with the new hd in the
system, any device ( other hd, cd, or thumbdrive with a windows based syetem
freezes sith the new hd attached.
7. Finally. formatting tihe the linux based cd allowed me to successfully
install windows.

Is it possible that the new cd has such a corrupted windows installation
that is will not allow any other device with a windows type sytem ( including
a bartpe environment)to boot .

Bruce
 
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Daave

I have a working sta drive, but I needed a bigger HD. Formatted the
new hd
with xp installation disk and installed windows.

<snip>

Rather than reinvent the wheel, why not clone the old hard drive to the
new one?
 
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bruce b

Daave said:
<snip>

Rather than reinvent the wheel, why not clone the old hard drive to the
new one?


I do have a image that I finally restored to the new drive, after reformatting with Linux based system. My question is not how to, but rather WHY ANY CD disk, other working HD, or thumbdrive with a windows based system on it were not able to be accessed, but only a non-windows disk to re-format with.

Thanks
Bruce
 

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