WinXP boot to blinking cursor

[eljainc]

Hello,

I have a conundrum. I installed WinXP home on a 160GB drive on a Dell
Optiplex PC. After setting up all of the programs and setitngs, I
moved it to a Compaq Presario PC. It is the only drive on the primary
controller. When the system gets past the POST it gets stuck at a
blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. I made sure that there
are no other CDROMs or other boot devices.

I then tried to go into recovery console, ran chkdsk /r and also
fixboot and fixmbr, but nothing. The jumper on the drive I've tried as
slave, cable select and master. Still I get the blinking cursor issue.

Is there anything else that can be done to fix this....or do I resort
next to a repair install?

Thanks
Mike

 

[Big_Al]

Hello,

I have a conundrum. I installed WinXP home on a 160GB drive on a Dell
Optiplex PC. After setting up all of the programs and setitngs, I
moved it to a Compaq Presario PC. It is the only drive on the primary
controller. When the system gets past the POST it gets stuck at a
blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. I made sure that there
are no other CDROMs or other boot devices.

I then tried to go into recovery console, ran chkdsk /r and also
fixboot and fixmbr, but nothing. The jumper on the drive I've tried as
slave, cable select and master. Still I get the blinking cursor issue.

Is there anything else that can be done to fix this....or do I resort
next to a repair install?

Thanks
Mike

There is a 4th option, master / slave / cable select / and master with
slave.
A drive can be either master single, or master with slave. On some
devices its different. So the question is, is there any other device
on the same cable?

 

[eljainc]

There is only the hard drive on the 80 pin HD (high density) IDE cable

Mike