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I'm installing XP Pro from an original full retail CD, pre-SP1, on a new
computer (upgrading my old hardware). It goes fine until the first system
restart, after which everything repeats as if nothing had happened. Except,
after I choose a partition, the installer says there's another operating
system installed, which must be XP from the first time around. I'm
installing to a 200GB FAT32 partition, which is the first partition. The
hard drive is SATA running in IDE mode. If I try to boot from the hard drive
itself, I get a disk error. I assume the system should boot from the CD
after the restart and then notice that it's already written to the disk, but
for some reason this isn't happening.
Any help very much appreciated.
computer (upgrading my old hardware). It goes fine until the first system
restart, after which everything repeats as if nothing had happened. Except,
after I choose a partition, the installer says there's another operating
system installed, which must be XP from the first time around. I'm
installing to a 200GB FAT32 partition, which is the first partition. The
hard drive is SATA running in IDE mode. If I try to boot from the hard drive
itself, I get a disk error. I assume the system should boot from the CD
after the restart and then notice that it's already written to the disk, but
for some reason this isn't happening.
Any help very much appreciated.