QUICK: ERROR installing Windows

[AgaBoogaBoo]

neonerd is working on a computer right now at someone's home, no other computers there

He has one hard drive to work with.

He needs to install XP but gets "Error Loading Operating System."

He's tried formatting and then doing repair, install, etc. none work. He doesn't have floppies for the HD either for any other type of format

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

he's over at the person's house right now and needs to do it right now, otherwise i'd post elsewhere

 

[Colt45]

fixmbr?

 

[Ryan]

The only cure is Topher.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Colt45
fixmbr?

 

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Colt45
fixmbr?

 

[Xionide]

Check the ide cables. Maybe switch the cd-rom cables with the hard drive cables. Also what are the system specs and why did it need to be formatted?

 

[MacBaine]

neonerd's a fvcking douche.

 

[jst0ney]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Colt45
fixmbr?

agreed, then get back to us

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

fixmbr already tried

he's trying again

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

fixmbr didn't work

 

[Colt45]

set active partition with fdisk?

 

[FoBoT]

maybe the hd is borked, he should try it in another system

and tell him to charge eleventy billion dollars for this job since he had to get help from OT

 

[WarDemon666]

make sure his cdrom is master, as stated use fdisk to set an active partition

from the way it sounds its trying to load off the hard drive before the cdrom, and the hard drives OS is corrupt

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: WarDemon666
make sure his cdrom is master, as stated use fdisk to set an active partition

from the way it sounds its trying to load off the hard drive before the cdrom, and the hard drives OS is corrupt

agreed

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Colt45
set active partition with fdisk?

can you use fdisk with xp? i thought that went the way of the dodo after 98...

 

[WarDemon666]

fix it yet?

he should be able to use fdisk if he is not using an ntfs file system.. But all of my fdisk executables are able to read ntfs partitions, depends on the version.. Some versions of fdisk couldnt read multiple drives at once

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

format /mbr
fdisk (delete all partitions, create one big one)
format c:

reinstall

 

[FoBoT]

neonerd isn't posting , so he must still be dorking around with it

he's DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

 

[ActuaryTm]

Should we really be doing neonerd's work for him? No doubt he is getting paid for this.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

nah, he ended up taking my advice and bring it home

it's not fixed yet, he's going to try a different HD, it might be the HD

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Should we really be doing neonerd's work for him? No doubt he is getting paid for this.

actually he isn't

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Should we really be doing neonerd's work for him? No doubt he is getting paid for this.

yeah, eleventy billion pesos, he is getting, that is what i heard

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Should we really be doing neonerd's work for him? No doubt he is getting paid for this.

yeah, eleventy billion pesos, he is getting, that is what i heard

Sweet.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
yeah, eleventy billion pesos, he is getting, that is what i heard

Unfortunately, my last peso portion has yet to arrive.

Please relay my apologies then, as my neonerd quota has been filled until 10/02/2005.