Azrea1 said:
still no luck, ive Booted up windows XP install disc loaded the blue
screen
and enterd the set up created a partiton (NTFS) and formated, got to the
auto
restart but when the pc rebooted it wouldnt allow me 2 load the GUI it
just
says "error loading operating system" i tryed the FIXBOOT and FIXMBR and
the
Fdisk /mbr, also tryed taking the disk out b4 it rebooted, and my
Harddrive
is in the boot list in my bios... Im installing windows XP pro if that
helps
anything.
I "think" that that the problem may have somthing to do with the fact that
I
installed Vista, but i deleted the entie thing the hard drive was wiped
clean
and this is a new hard drive i just got it but i kno it works cuz vista
was
running fine on it.
thx for the help =D
It was nice of you to finally tell us the one CRITICAL clue to the proper
identification of your problem:
" installed Vista, but i deleted the entire thing".
VISTA uses a boot-loader schema that is entirely different from, and
incompatible with, the boot-loader schem of Windows XP. Neither FIXBOOT nor
FIXMBR will overwrite a VISTA boot-loader. Your "boot" problem is: the VISTA
boot-loader is looking for a VISTA installation, which no longer exists.
Visit a VISTA newsgroup and ask them how to delete the VISTA boot-loader so
that you can then install Windows XP.
Steve