Well, based on my recent troubles, I guess my company does hire morons in the Tech Services groups...
My MB died (bad caps) so I replaced it. In an effort to save money, I added the new MB and CPU and DDR2 and IDE PCI Card and $100 worth of semi technical advice to my old case and kept my IDE HDD and IDE Optical Drives and PSU.
My copy of WinXP Pro was given to me by my company because I used my home pc to log into work. It was one of those multiple user licenses (I assume). Anyway, WinXP Pro on my old HDD fails to load or even be read, until I get to the boot from CD section. At which point the reload screen asks if I want to load it on drive C or drive D. C has WinXP Pro, blah blah blah, do you want to overwrite - yes. It makes it all the way through the install, saves settings, etc and then reboots. I let the reboot head straight to Windows (ignore the boot from CD) and it gets to the Windows loading screen - which is grey'd out stays there for 3 seconds or so, and then reboots. Then I get the "windows failed to load - do you want to start is safe, normal, etc mode". At which point I've tried all 3 or 4 or 5. All of which go to the windows load screen again, reboots, and bring me to a blue error stop screen. At which point it says windows is dead, reinstall.
The way I see it, I have two options:
1) Drink a large quantity of Draino and then have my widow sue MS for causing me to go insane, thereby allowing my widow and children to live in the lap of luxury.
2) Hop off IDE, buy a SATAII HDD, format and install WinXP fresh, and pray I can find all my peripherals disks (we moved recently- everything is in storage).
3) (this is really number 2 since draino option 1 isn't gonna happen) See if I can return everything I've bought, and horde my money until I can buy a real MB, CPU, Case, PSU, HDD, Optical, and Warranty. (also not really an option as I'm too into instant gratification).
In closing. Is my install of WinXP Home failing because of the previous XP version on the disk? Any other options?
mado
My MB died (bad caps) so I replaced it. In an effort to save money, I added the new MB and CPU and DDR2 and IDE PCI Card and $100 worth of semi technical advice to my old case and kept my IDE HDD and IDE Optical Drives and PSU.
My copy of WinXP Pro was given to me by my company because I used my home pc to log into work. It was one of those multiple user licenses (I assume). Anyway, WinXP Pro on my old HDD fails to load or even be read, until I get to the boot from CD section. At which point the reload screen asks if I want to load it on drive C or drive D. C has WinXP Pro, blah blah blah, do you want to overwrite - yes. It makes it all the way through the install, saves settings, etc and then reboots. I let the reboot head straight to Windows (ignore the boot from CD) and it gets to the Windows loading screen - which is grey'd out stays there for 3 seconds or so, and then reboots. Then I get the "windows failed to load - do you want to start is safe, normal, etc mode". At which point I've tried all 3 or 4 or 5. All of which go to the windows load screen again, reboots, and bring me to a blue error stop screen. At which point it says windows is dead, reinstall.
The way I see it, I have two options:
1) Drink a large quantity of Draino and then have my widow sue MS for causing me to go insane, thereby allowing my widow and children to live in the lap of luxury.
2) Hop off IDE, buy a SATAII HDD, format and install WinXP fresh, and pray I can find all my peripherals disks (we moved recently- everything is in storage).
3) (this is really number 2 since draino option 1 isn't gonna happen) See if I can return everything I've bought, and horde my money until I can buy a real MB, CPU, Case, PSU, HDD, Optical, and Warranty. (also not really an option as I'm too into instant gratification).
In closing. Is my install of WinXP Home failing because of the previous XP version on the disk? Any other options?
mado
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