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XP Pro setup trouble on new disk.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. :-) That did it. I feel like such an idiot. I did do a full NTFS format with Partition Magic before I changed the drives but of course the boot record was then on the wrong disk... Thank you once more. -KS- kaishen
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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XP Pro setup trouble on new disk.
I’ve tried that many times (many, many times) already, and just for the fun of it I tried again this morning. Still nothing! As I was absolutely exhausted when I wrote the first part I think I’ll elaborate a little. The problem is not specific to a single hdd. I’ve tried to install xp on...- kaishen
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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XP Pro setup trouble on new disk.
My primary harddisk crashed recently and thus I have to install XP pro again on a new drive. But this has proven more difficult than it has ever been before: I boot from the XP Pro install CD as normal using a NTFS partition. My HDD is a ‘Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9’ 160 Gb but I have set the...- kaishen
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
