Q: Well, this is interesting . Just bought new hardware for my profession, I went and decided to reinstall the OS too. Ive tried XP, format the hard drive to copy files, restart . and then instead of ignoring the bootable CD (which it normally would show “Press any key to boot from CD .”), launch the installer again as if nothing had just happened. He thinks that an XP quirk, I popped in my Win2K CD. Same deal goes through the entire deal, wants to restart . the installer starts from zero again! The only hardware Ive recently added a video card, and I ducked into a LiteOn 16x DVD burner and a 24X. They think maybe the problem is, I have my Toshiba 32X CD-ROM and got the same results. : Disgust:
Re:Try using a Win98 boot diskette and use FDISK. Delete the partitions…..Create a new one (partition it like you want it) and make the first partition the "Active" partition. You can then reboot using the diskette also and just go to your CD ROM and run Setup from there.
Re:Well, I gave that a shot, did a low level format…. Nope. STILL doesn't work. About to throw dis piece of sheet out dee window!
Re:do the low level format as the previous post suggested. It will return the drive to factory condition. then you can fdisk and format, etc. also if the drive is going bad the low level format will let you know.
Re:I've had this problem twice.
First time I fixed it by booting from a DOS disk, then use the FDISK MBR command. I don't remember the exact command, I always look it up on the web. This formats over your "Master Boot Record" if you did not already know. After this is done, I was able to install the OS as usual.
Second time this happened… the above fix did not work. I had to use the Maxtor "MaxBlast" installation disk to format the drive. I don't know why, but this was the only thing that worked.
Hope this helps
Re:Oops, I forgot to mention that if I do just eject the CD so it will boot from the hard disk, it says "Operating system not found". Grrr.
Re:Yah, either rearrange boot order to make HDD/Floppy before CD- or take the Disc out
Later/Jim
Re:When the BIOS is booting, go into the BIOS and switch the boot order back to HDD or Floppy/HDD.
OR, when it's rebooting and you're still in the BIOS, eject the CD.
Either way, this may be annoying, but it's not the end of your OS loading by any means.
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