New HDD won't boot into installation mode

[macanno]

hi there, long story made abit short

1) PC broke down and went to repair shop as nothing on screen so I
could do no diagnosis with my limited knowledge and experiences

2) PC back to home with newly bought display card and replaced PSU as
repair shop reported display card outage as well as PSU fan failure

3) After putting in the new Display card, System still cannot bootup
into windows and keep looping with a blue screen after showing the
Windows loading screen. WinXP SP2 installation disk used to bootup and
entered Recovery Mode, however, it was found out the volume was not
found, meaning the HDD has a problem

4) New HDD bought and formatted with NTFS with WinXP SP2 disk during a
clean installation procedure, after the Files Copying to HDD step
completed, System reboot as usual but cannot bootup into the nomal
Windows installation screen to continue with the installation.. Only a
"Disk Error. Press Any key to restart" message.

i've had over 50 times of XP installations before but this is something
really new and weird to me. Could anyone please shed some lights about
possible resolution/fix i could try? My system is

CPU: P4 3.0GHz
MEM: 1G RAM
MB: Intel D865PERL
HDD: Maxtor 250G
Display: Grandmars X1600pro

Thanks very much for any input!

macanno

 

[Guest]

Thoughts are that either the original diagnosis was incorrect, or else the
display driver isn't compatible witht he new card.

Try Safe Mode (Tap F8 repeatedly as the machine starts) as that uses a
standard VGA driver which should work with any card.

Otherwise, get hold of a Knoppix, Ubuntu or BartPE CD and use that to
check-out the hardware.

Main thing is not to get too hasty and cause more problems. If the original
diagnosis/repair was faulty, then you have redress against the shop, but ONLY
if it's returned to them as-found.

 

[Guest]

Try install again,this time,boot to xp cd,select recovery,press enter key if
promp-
ted for password,select 1 for disk C: In recovery typeiskPart In DiskPart
delete the partition(s),then create one,then press ESC key,type:EXIT Let xp
restart,reboot to xp cd,install xp.Before xp install,power off
computer,remove
battery,locate the CMOS jumper pin on the board,move pin from 1-2 to 2-3 for
.45 seconds to minute,then back to 1-2 replace battery,start
computer.You'll have
to rest time,date,load optimal defaults(exit page),then reset for add in
cards,save
and exit BIOS.This clears the board of all the failures of before...