XP installation

[shot]

Installing XP OEM Home version, the files copy onto the
hard drive and after coping the computer reboots for the
first time, and then I get a blank screen with a cursor in
the upper left hand corner of the screen. That is where my
installation ends. I have removed the video card, modem and
it still does the same thing. This is on a clean install.
I'm not too sure what it may be, I have cleaned the hard
drive, and reinstalled XP, but it still hangs on the
reboot. During the reboot, I get a quick look at the boot
up process of the BIOS and it states "Boot record" not
found. Any good suggestions?
Thanks in advance, shot.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Disable the BIOS anti-virus detection scheme.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[modelingfrog]

try to repartition the drive.

 

[Plato]

Installing XP OEM Home version, the files copy onto the
hard drive and after coping the computer reboots for the
first time, and then I get a blank screen with a cursor in
the upper left hand corner of the screen. That is where my

Often you have do disable "antivirus" in the bios to install XP.

 

[Remitdlo]

This sounds like an old dos problem, when you say you cleaned your harddrive
did you "fdisk" it? Rebuild your partitions? If you did, from a dos boot
diskette run "sys c:" to reload the harddrive boot code.

Good luck! Tim