i have an old pentium III machine i assembled with parts i got from a friend, and others lying around my house. so, i put ubuntu linux on it, just to see what everyone was raving about. i liked it, but the purpose of this machine is to run windows while i migrate my (relatively) fast amd xp 1700+ machine to linux. i'm making the switch, and the first step was to have the windows machine up and running first, so i can switch over.
anyway...i wiped the ubuntu partition clean, formatted with the xp pro disk, and it installed the files on the newly formatted partition, and restarts, and boots from the hard drive. nothing new here, i've done this probably 50 times for myself and family/friends. but wen i restart, booting from the hdd, i get the message "error loading operating system". wtf is this? i thought that i could try to install with mnimal hardware, but i already am, i have nothing else but the essentials in this system. only the hdd, vid card, and cdrom. i'm using a valid xp disk i got issued from my school, and i also tried the old copy i used to use, and niether worked. anyone have any ideas? thanks much.
CJ
anyway...i wiped the ubuntu partition clean, formatted with the xp pro disk, and it installed the files on the newly formatted partition, and restarts, and boots from the hard drive. nothing new here, i've done this probably 50 times for myself and family/friends. but wen i restart, booting from the hdd, i get the message "error loading operating system". wtf is this? i thought that i could try to install with mnimal hardware, but i already am, i have nothing else but the essentials in this system. only the hdd, vid card, and cdrom. i'm using a valid xp disk i got issued from my school, and i also tried the old copy i used to use, and niether worked. anyone have any ideas? thanks much.
CJ
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