I bought a new hard drive to install Windows XP on. I already had Windows Vista Ultimate on my other one. I wanted a 2nd hard drive anyway, and there are a couple of things I want to have Windows XP for.
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I booted from the Windows XP CD and it did its usual thing inspecting hardware configuration, loading files, etc. Then it asked me which partition I wanted to install Windows on. Obviously I picked the new hard drive with the RAW partition. After that was done, I proceeded to install Windows and it copied some files. Then it said my computer was going to restart in order to finish the installation in 15 sec, or press enter to go ahead and restart. I pressed enter to reboot the system.
During posting, it asked me to press any key to boot from CD. I didn't press anything, because I knew I didn't have to boot from the CD again. But then it just hung there...it did not go on into Windows. Then I thought I should change my HDD boot priority so that the new one would be first, so I rebooted and went into BIOS to do that. Same thing happened: hung after "press any key to boot from CD". So I reboot again into BIOS, and take out the CD. I get out of the BIOS, and it hangs again during the post after listing PCI devices and all that just like it did before.
Then I disconnected the new hard drive from the motherboard completely and changed my HDD boot priority back to where my old drive would be first. Save changes, exit bios. It hangs yet again. I can't get into Windows now.
What happened? I don't understand how I could have screwed up my old hard drive by doing what I did. The old hard dive is on "IDE0 Master" and the new one was on "IDE1 Master". Even if I didn't have the connections right as far as master/slave etc., everything should still work fine when I disconnect the new drive.
Like I said, the motherboard/BIOS sees both hard drives just fine, and I can hear the hard drive working when I first boot up. But then it just hangs in the same place every time.
For specs, please visit the link in my sig.
I booted from the Windows XP CD and it did its usual thing inspecting hardware configuration, loading files, etc. Then it asked me which partition I wanted to install Windows on. Obviously I picked the new hard drive with the RAW partition. After that was done, I proceeded to install Windows and it copied some files. Then it said my computer was going to restart in order to finish the installation in 15 sec, or press enter to go ahead and restart. I pressed enter to reboot the system.
During posting, it asked me to press any key to boot from CD. I didn't press anything, because I knew I didn't have to boot from the CD again. But then it just hung there...it did not go on into Windows. Then I thought I should change my HDD boot priority so that the new one would be first, so I rebooted and went into BIOS to do that. Same thing happened: hung after "press any key to boot from CD". So I reboot again into BIOS, and take out the CD. I get out of the BIOS, and it hangs again during the post after listing PCI devices and all that just like it did before.
Then I disconnected the new hard drive from the motherboard completely and changed my HDD boot priority back to where my old drive would be first. Save changes, exit bios. It hangs yet again. I can't get into Windows now.
What happened? I don't understand how I could have screwed up my old hard drive by doing what I did. The old hard dive is on "IDE0 Master" and the new one was on "IDE1 Master". Even if I didn't have the connections right as far as master/slave etc., everything should still work fine when I disconnect the new drive.
Like I said, the motherboard/BIOS sees both hard drives just fine, and I can hear the hard drive working when I first boot up. But then it just hangs in the same place every time.
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