Kelly help please...windows xp pro install problem

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Sky KIng

Hi there and thanks for your great web page. Its been a great help to
me and many others. I bought a new hard drive and am trying to install
windows xp pro on it. It formats and then reboots and starts all over
again. When I try to continue it tells me I already have a partition. I
cannot get it to go any further. Any help or suggestions would be
appreciated. I do not get any error messages. TIA
 
Hi,

Not Kelly, but.....what did you use to create the installation partition?
WinXP's setup or a disk utility that came with the drive?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Your drive may require a driver be loaded at the very beginning (when you
see the F6 message at the bottom of the screen). Is it an IDE or SATA
drive?
 
Sky said:
Hi there and thanks for your great web page. Its been a great help to
me and many others. I bought a new hard drive and am trying to install
windows xp pro on it. It formats and then reboots and starts all over
again. When I try to continue it tells me I already have a partition. I
cannot get it to go any further. Any help or suggestions would be
appreciated. I do not get any error messages. TIA
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During the reboot take the XP CD out of the drive. After the reboot is
complete and setup is continuing, place the XP CD back in the drive.
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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
 
"Colin Barnhorst" said:
Your drive may require a driver be loaded at the very beginning (when you
see the F6 message at the bottom of the screen). Is it an IDE or SATA
drive?
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IDE! How can I load a driver when I don't have an operating system
loaded? TIA
 
"Rick \"Nutcase\" said:
Hi,

Not Kelly, but.....what did you use to create the installation partition?
WinXP's setup or a disk utility that came with the drive?
Click to expand...
Winxp's setup.
 
Hi, Sky.

IDE drivers are built into x86 motherboard BIOSes. SATA drivers often are
not, and must be added during the WinXP Setup process by pressing F6 when
Setup invites us to press that if we need to load drivers for a mass storage
device. It's a common problem with systems that include the latest hardware
(such as SATA) or onboard RAID. You didn't specify originally that you are
using IDE drives, so Colin's question is quite valid.

RC
 
Sky said:
IDE! How can I load a driver when I don't have an operating system
loaded? TIA
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Hi, Sky;

{nice name! <VBG>}

After the first Restart, when you see the "press any key to boot from the
CD...." message do NOT press a key. The system will then continue into the
XP Setup session from the core files already on your HD, and complete the
installation on the partition you selected.
 
Hi Sky,

Good, as a third party tool often causes issues. Try Tom Porterfield's
suggestion next.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Hello all, I have installed XP Pro. overXP Home but when reboot, I have two
WIN.XP Pro. one XP Home and one PC Recovery.I would like to delete the XP
Pro.that hasnt been configured yet. so as to remove it,how do I go about
doing it.They dont show in add and remove folder.
Thank You,
 
I doubt that you really that many different installations of XP, you may
just have fouled Boot Paths in the Boot.ini file. To check:
Start/Run/type "msconfig" (minus quote marks)/click "OK". When the
System Configuration Utility opens, click the "Boot.ini" Tab. Then click
the "Check all boot paths" button. If any are identified as being
invalid, delete that specific one (s)
Gene K
 
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