XP installed on wrong drive

[alice]

I had an XP PC that got a blue screen of death upon booting up,
something about the registry failing.
I could not boot in safe mode or get a floppy or CD to boot either.
I decided to try reinstalling windows, but since the CD drive would
not work, I put the HD in a second computer that was working, thinking
I could choose which drive to install it on.
I chose the E drive, which should have been the one that I just stuck
in as the slave drive. I went through the whole installation including
rebooting. Then I turned it off and put the drive back in the original
computer, and rebooted both PCs.
What I got was, the original computer still had the reigstry blue
screen error and would not boot, and the other PC now had a new
installation of XP.

Am I missing something? It gave me a choice of installing on either
drive C or drive E, but the end result seems to be that it installed
on C regardless of what I picked.
Is this normal, is this the way it's supposed to work, or did I do
something wrong?

 

[Guest]

XP software installation(s) dont work that way...Youre installing the other
pcs
hardware & configuring it with xp,after you switched,the hardware isnt
present
anymore...Try installing xp cd,boot to xp cd (set the BIOS for this,1st
boot device
or similiar,have the hd as 2nd),at xp cd boot screen select install xp..

 

[Anna]

I had an XP PC that got a blue screen of death upon booting up,
something about the registry failing.
I could not boot in safe mode or get a floppy or CD to boot either.
I decided to try reinstalling windows, but since the CD drive would
not work, I put the HD in a second computer that was working, thinking
I could choose which drive to install it on.
I chose the E drive, which should have been the one that I just stuck
in as the slave drive. I went through the whole installation including
rebooting. Then I turned it off and put the drive back in the original
computer, and rebooted both PCs.
What I got was, the original computer still had the reigstry blue
screen error and would not boot, and the other PC now had a new
installation of XP.

Am I missing something? It gave me a choice of installing on either
drive C or drive E, but the end result seems to be that it installed
on C regardless of what I picked.
Is this normal, is this the way it's supposed to work, or did I do
something wrong?

alice:
You say that in addition to the BSOD problem and some message about a
"registry failing" neither your floppy disk not your optical drive was
working. It really sounds like you may have some hardware problems affecting
that PC and I wonder whether it might be wise for you at this point to have
a local computer repair shop take a look at the machine or perhaps you know
a friend who is reasonably conversant with PC hardware systems and can
perform some diagnostics to at least determine whether this is a hardware or
software issue and then go on from there.
Anna

 

[alice]

XP software installation(s) dont work that way...Youre installing the other
pcs
hardware & configuring it with xp,after you switched,the hardware isnt
present
anymore...Try installing xp cd,boot to xp cd (set the BIOS for this,1st
boot device
or similiar,have the hd as 2nd),at xp cd boot screen select install xp..






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I've set it to boot to the CD first, but it simply won't. Before the
happened, the CD drive worked fine.
I have a diagnostic program on a floppy, and it will actually boot to
the disk and get to the first screen, but will not run after that, so
I can't comlplete that program.
I think I understand what you mean about the hardware, but I still
wonder why it installed on the C drive of the spare/working PC, when I
chose the E drive. I could understand the E drive not working
correctly as a C drive back in the old system, but why did it install
on the other drive, and for that matter, why did it even give me a
choice?