Win XP Install - HUGE Problem, please help?

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I bought a new Western Digital 160 gig hard drive and decided to just go with
it and start clean (planning to copy over files later from my old drive). I
pop it in, put in my Win XP Pro CD and start the install. I went with just
the single partition and had setup start. It went fine until it rebooted. It
hung at the BioStar splash screen then proceeded to boot again from the CD
and setup wanted to start all over again! This time telling me that there
were system files that would be destroyed if I were to start again. In the
Bios it is set to boot first from HDD-0 then the CD-Rom. Obviously it didn't
run from the hard drive...but went straight back to the CD-rom! It's driving
me crazy...what could be wrong??

Thanks for any help!
 
Oops, forgot to state it is not a SATA drive but a regular EIDE drive. The
computer worked fine with the other hard drive but the other one was just 30
gigs.
 
You have to open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as
the first bootable device and the hard drive second.

HOW TO: Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941&Product=winxp

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.mspx

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| I bought a new Western Digital 160 gig hard drive and decided to just go with
| it and start clean (planning to copy over files later from my old drive). I
| pop it in, put in my Win XP Pro CD and start the install. I went with just
| the single partition and had setup start. It went fine until it rebooted. It
| hung at the BioStar splash screen then proceeded to boot again from the CD
| and setup wanted to start all over again! This time telling me that there
| were system files that would be destroyed if I were to start again. In the
| Bios it is set to boot first from HDD-0 then the CD-Rom. Obviously it didn't
| run from the hard drive...but went straight back to the CD-rom! It's driving
| me crazy...what could be wrong??
|
| Thanks for any help!
 
Thank you for your prompt reply! I tried that and the same thing happened so
I thought I had it backwards and did it as I originally posted. Absolutely
nothing changed. My original setup was two hard drives. I had windows 98 se
on a small drive (10 gigs). I got the 30 gig drive and put it in as the D
drive and put win xp pro on that. I wanted to make it easier to copy over my
files instead of burning the files I wanted to keep and then transferring
them to the new drive. Unfortunately, it created a dual boot. This time I
decided to just put the new drive in and start clean. I figured I could
always copy the files over later. I am thinking now that perhaps I should
put the WIN XP drive back in and try to start that way. This is getting
frustrating....

Jay
 
Ah geez, after clicking on a link in your reply I got to a place I think
might be my problem. I think the windows xp pro I purchased from eBay may
have been an oem version (which I placed on my 30 gig hard drive). Will this
prevent me from installing it on the new hard drive? Will I need to boot
from the original hard drive and then put it on the new one? Can I then
safely remove the old hard drive? Geez, I have two computers, I bought a
retail version of Win XP Pro for my main computer but for this one I bought
one from ebay. Bad move I guess. I just want to get this computer working
again!

Jayson said:
Thank you for your prompt reply! I tried that and the same thing happened so
I thought I had it backwards and did it as I originally posted. Absolutely
nothing changed. My original setup was two hard drives. I had windows 98 se
on a small drive (10 gigs). I got the 30 gig drive and put it in as the D
drive and put win xp pro on that. I wanted to make it easier to copy over my
files instead of burning the files I wanted to keep and then transferring
them to the new drive. Unfortunately, it created a dual boot. This time I
decided to just put the new drive in and start clean. I figured I could
always copy the files over later. I am thinking now that perhaps I should
put the WIN XP drive back in and try to start that way. This is getting
frustrating....

Jay

Carey Frisch said:
You have to open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as
the first bootable device and the hard drive second.

HOW TO: Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941&Product=winxp

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.mspx

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:

| I bought a new Western Digital 160 gig hard drive and decided to just go with
| it and start clean (planning to copy over files later from my old drive). I
| pop it in, put in my Win XP Pro CD and start the install. I went with just
| the single partition and had setup start. It went fine until it rebooted. It
| hung at the BioStar splash screen then proceeded to boot again from the CD
| and setup wanted to start all over again! This time telling me that there
| were system files that would be destroyed if I were to start again. In the
| Bios it is set to boot first from HDD-0 then the CD-Rom. Obviously it didn't
| run from the hard drive...but went straight back to the CD-rom! It's driving
| me crazy...what could be wrong??
|
| Thanks for any help!
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Click to expand...
 
If it is an old enough copy of XP it may not be able to handle anything over
137GB. Just to check, why don't you use the old hard drive to start the
system and make a slipstreamed XP + SP2 cd. First download Autostreamer
from http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html and the SP2 Network
Install version from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en.
Put this on your desktop.
Then run autostreamer. Insert the XP Pro cd in the drive so autostreamer
can read it, then point autostreamer to the downloaded SP2 file on the
desktop. Tell Autostreamer to put the .iso file on the desktop. When
autostreamer is done, burn the .iso to cd and use the new cd to install
Windows. It is very very easy. You will want to have such a cd anyway.
Whenever the computer asks for a Windows cd in the future, put in the new
cd.

btw, it makes no difference what version of XP is running at the time you do
the slipstreaming since the files on the cd are used and not the system
folder.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
Jayson said:
Ah geez, after clicking on a link in your reply I got to a place I think
might be my problem. I think the windows xp pro I purchased from eBay may
have been an oem version (which I placed on my 30 gig hard drive). Will
this
prevent me from installing it on the new hard drive? Will I need to boot
from the original hard drive and then put it on the new one? Can I then
safely remove the old hard drive? Geez, I have two computers, I bought a
retail version of Win XP Pro for my main computer but for this one I
bought
one from ebay. Bad move I guess. I just want to get this computer
working
again!

Jayson said:
Thank you for your prompt reply! I tried that and the same thing
happened so
I thought I had it backwards and did it as I originally posted.
Absolutely
nothing changed. My original setup was two hard drives. I had windows
98 se
on a small drive (10 gigs). I got the 30 gig drive and put it in as the
D
drive and put win xp pro on that. I wanted to make it easier to copy
over my
files instead of burning the files I wanted to keep and then transferring
them to the new drive. Unfortunately, it created a dual boot. This time
I
decided to just put the new drive in and start clean. I figured I could
always copy the files over later. I am thinking now that perhaps I
should
put the WIN XP drive back in and try to start that way. This is getting
frustrating....

Jay

Carey Frisch said:
You have to open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as
the first bootable device and the hard drive second.

HOW TO: Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941&Product=winxp

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.mspx

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:

| I bought a new Western Digital 160 gig hard drive and decided to just
go with
| it and start clean (planning to copy over files later from my old
drive). I
| pop it in, put in my Win XP Pro CD and start the install. I went
with just
| the single partition and had setup start. It went fine until it
rebooted. It
| hung at the BioStar splash screen then proceeded to boot again from
the CD
| and setup wanted to start all over again! This time telling me that
there
| were system files that would be destroyed if I were to start again.
In the
| Bios it is set to boot first from HDD-0 then the CD-Rom. Obviously
it didn't
| run from the hard drive...but went straight back to the CD-rom! It's
driving
| me crazy...what could be wrong??
|
| Thanks for any help!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
hey mean go to boot setting and choose boot devoice ..if u want to boot ur
computer from a hard disk then choose hard disk..or choose atpi boot from
CD-Room... floopy rom...??? from where u want to choose ur 's boot device
if u want to do this setting u have to go to setting in ur's mother board
from there u can choose boot menu devoice..ok


happy... i can only help u this if u can understand me i will
be happy....
or mail me at:[email protected] i can help u there.....anyaway bye
bye bye..,,,,
 
Colin Barnhorst said:
If it is an old enough copy of XP it may not be able to handle anything
over 137GB. Just to check, why don't you use the old hard drive to start
the system and make a slipstreamed XP + SP2 cd. First download
Autostreamer from http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html and the SP2
Network Install version from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en.
Put this on your desktop.
Then run autostreamer. Insert the XP Pro cd in the drive so autostreamer
can read it, then point autostreamer to the downloaded SP2 file on the
desktop. Tell Autostreamer to put the .iso file on the desktop. When
autostreamer is done, burn the .iso to cd and use the new cd to install
Windows. It is very very easy. You will want to have such a cd anyway.
Whenever the computer asks for a Windows cd in the future, put in the new
cd.

btw, it makes no difference what version of XP is running at the time you
do the slipstreaming since the files on the cd are used and not the system
folder.
Click to expand...

Are you sure you can slipstream an oem Windows XP cd?
 
Yes. I just did an OEM Windows XP Home original cd to make sure. It is
clearly marked for intallation on a new computer only.
 
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