Philosophaie Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 I have 2 hard drives both have been wiped using a common erasing program not just formatted. I tried installing Windows XP and the setup files were installed from the CD. When I rebooted there was an boot error and it was unable to boot from the hard drive. This was the case for both hard drives, the same error. What reason could there be why it doesn't boot directly to XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Has the boot up preference in BIOS been changed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosophaie Posted May 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Has the boot up preference in BIOS been changed?I changed it to the EIDE Hard Drive and removed the XP CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Is it a legitimate XP CD for that Computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 When I rebooted there was an boot error and it was unable to boot from the hard drive.What is the exact error message you get ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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