Situation: Have been having some troubles with my existing XPSP2 install (roughly two years old on self-built system). Windows is repeatedly and increasingly encountering a "serious problem" and rebooting, or experiencing other frustrating problems. I decided it probably would be good to start clean, with a new HDD, relegating my original HDD to a backup for non-critical stuff.
What I did:
1) I moved all files from the second internal HDD (fairly new) to an external drive, then formatted (NTFS) the second internal HDD from within my existing Windows installation. All went well. Shut system down.
2) Next, I disconnected the existing primary HDD from "SATA 1" port on the MOBO, then reconnected the freshly formatted HDD from "SATA 2" to "SATA 1".
3) Powered system on, entered bios to confirm boot order with CD-ROM as 1st boot device. Restarted system with OS CD in the drive, drive spins up, shows text indicating Windows is checking system configuration (or something to that effect). The text message then disappears with the screen going black, and the CD-ROM spins down to a stop. Nothing more happens.
4) Reconnected original HDD to SATA 1. Boots fine as before. Reboot with OS CD in CD-ROM and system boots then from CD as expected, going into the blue Setup screen with Windows doing its thing as normal. I terminate this install as I want to leave the original HDD as-is until the new one has a clean XP installation up and running. This was only to verify that the system is looking first to the optical drive during boot.
What am I doing wrong while trying to install Windows onto the newly formatted drive? I did not want to do anything with the original HDD/XP install until the new HDD has XP + other software properly installed and updated. Then I had intended to repurpose the original HDD as the internal backup after reformatting it from within the new Windows installation.
MOBO is Asus K8NE-Deluxe. Onboard SATA ports 1 & 2 are native--no driver required for OS install--so I have no floppy drive on this system.
Thanks in advance for help and suggestions. Please assume you're helping a Windows/hardware noob 'cause that's what I am!
What I did:
1) I moved all files from the second internal HDD (fairly new) to an external drive, then formatted (NTFS) the second internal HDD from within my existing Windows installation. All went well. Shut system down.
2) Next, I disconnected the existing primary HDD from "SATA 1" port on the MOBO, then reconnected the freshly formatted HDD from "SATA 2" to "SATA 1".
3) Powered system on, entered bios to confirm boot order with CD-ROM as 1st boot device. Restarted system with OS CD in the drive, drive spins up, shows text indicating Windows is checking system configuration (or something to that effect). The text message then disappears with the screen going black, and the CD-ROM spins down to a stop. Nothing more happens.
4) Reconnected original HDD to SATA 1. Boots fine as before. Reboot with OS CD in CD-ROM and system boots then from CD as expected, going into the blue Setup screen with Windows doing its thing as normal. I terminate this install as I want to leave the original HDD as-is until the new one has a clean XP installation up and running. This was only to verify that the system is looking first to the optical drive during boot.
What am I doing wrong while trying to install Windows onto the newly formatted drive? I did not want to do anything with the original HDD/XP install until the new HDD has XP + other software properly installed and updated. Then I had intended to repurpose the original HDD as the internal backup after reformatting it from within the new Windows installation.
MOBO is Asus K8NE-Deluxe. Onboard SATA ports 1 & 2 are native--no driver required for OS install--so I have no floppy drive on this system.
Thanks in advance for help and suggestions. Please assume you're helping a Windows/hardware noob 'cause that's what I am!
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