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Solved. I can't figure out why XP won't complete installation
Alternate_Theory
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I'm trying to install windows xp (SP2 disc) onto an IDE drive using a CD drive that is also IDE. The mobo bios sees the disk drive (and recognizes it as a master drive) and Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows sees the drive and can format it. Windows xp disc also sees the drive, and I partitioned and formatted it (NTFS of course), both slow and fast techniques. That goes fine. But when I try to boot from the HD to complete the windows installation, it tells me that there's an error trying to boot from the source disk. The hard drive was bought last year from Newegg, and has been sitting in the antistatic bag indoors since then until a few weeks ago.
Why won't it go to the next step?
Why won't it go to the next step?
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That's what it sounds like, at least. If that passes, you may want to download something like partition magic, nuke the drive completely and do a fresh install.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148236
I've used the system tools that come on the Windows disc to unpartition/repartition the drive, and reformat and then reinstall. Still got the same error message.