taffyd Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 hello all. have a big problem, icant istall xp. cant change format to NTFS, when i format my disk with fdisk only shows 25GB. have a small program called TEST DISK , shows 4 patitions .but in windows shows only 1 with 156GB need help asp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingCobra Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 What hard drive do you have? Does it already have an OS on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 hey taffyd and welcome to the forum boot your pc from Win XP cd, then you will start installation, after a while you will see a option where to install Windows, mark a partition or unallocated space, and/ or delete old partitions and make a new. To boot from cd you need to open BIOS and change boot sequence from default floppy as 1st boot media to your cdrom VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffyd Posted March 25, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 OK have tried this.when i boot from cd after hard drive check sys asks if hard drive is conected and then craches .message-ooooooooooo17. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 OK have tried this.when i boot from cd after hard drive check sys asks if hard drive is conected and then craches .message-ooooooooooo17. make sure your cdrom is the first boot device VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffyd Posted March 25, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 OK yes ,boot is cdrom. flopy.hd. what i dont understand is can istall win 98 but not xp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 what type of hardrive do you have? VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffyd Posted March 25, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 maxtor 160 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 is that a S-ATA ? Did you get a driver floppy when you bought it? VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffyd Posted March 25, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 yes its ATA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 yes its ATA? then you need to press ( if i remember this right F2 ) in the beginning of XP install, to install the hardrive drivers VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffyd Posted March 25, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 have tried nothing happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted March 25, 2005 CID Share Posted March 25, 2005 have tried nothing happens? download latest drivers from maxtor homepage VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted March 26, 2005 CID Share Posted March 26, 2005 If your motherboard supports SATA then you can go into the BIOS setup and set the SATA as that hard drive you will be loading the OS on (it should be in your motherboards manual) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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