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    XP will not install to ide HDD

    I had a maxtor 160gb running win XP sp3 perfect with the partition config 5gb , 10gb , 145gb.

    I ammended it with easus free home edition partition software to 10gb , 10gb , 140gb . I note the software it said to back up my data (which i did) but if it did mess up for any reason I should be able to run chkdsk and it should restore my hdd . It rebooted it into DOS said executing tasks 3/3 success. Then it rebooted to operating system not found!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I tried reboot to recovery console. It found my existing windows xp installtion. So I logged in to the installation and ran chkdsk, it found some inaccuracys and it corrected it but it still re booted to operating system not found.

    So I thought partitions must be royally messed up. So I went to re install windows xp and it listed my new partitions as
    C 10GB
    D 10GB
    E 135GB
    So it seems it did convert it successfully but seems mbr messed up?

    So I cancelled that and rebooted to recovery console and did fixboot/ fixmbr which still did not work , still getting operating system not found.

    So I went to re install windows XP , requested to re install on top of c partition (copied temp files over ) but it still rebooted to operating system not found.

    So I then did NTFS quick format on C drive only (again, it copied temp files over) but it still rebooted to operating system not found.

    So I thought I will delete all partitions, started all over again , and did a full format still rebooted to operating system not found. So I gave up...

    So seems I need to FDisk it? But recovery console doesnt have fdisk option? I only have card reader built in (No FDD) . I will need to source an USB FDD? Or any ideas please??? I do have to admit my XP sp2 CD is pretty scratched and around 51% it keeps saying proseg4.swf is missing but I can press escape to skip it. But from google it shows that its just an SWF animation start up file so surely this shouldnt be bringing the HDD to boot failure?

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    Re: XP will not install to ide HDD

    Have you checked Bios settings? restore to fail safe?

    you haven't got any USB sticks plugged in?

    have you tried the HD on a different IDE port?

    Have you tried removing all partitions and formatting (considering data is all backed up)

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    Re: XP will not install to ide HDD

    right, it seems EASUS partition home free edition has royally messed up the logical sector. It seems I will need to zero out the drive with the manufacturers tool. But in the mean time to get things going I replaced the HDD for time being and it worked even though I got proseg4.swf, proseg3.swf file error copying. At least Win XP is on it at the moment .

    nb
    yes BIOS was always detecting the hdd ok
    no other USB peripheral was connectied (I suspected this, so I was using boot menu, but it werent the case)
    its a shuttle so theres no other spare IDE port. It only has single channel cables.

    thanks for your tips anyway I will take into account for next times diagnostic

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