Hard Drive/Win boot Problem

Siro

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Having a windows boot problem, I just built another new computer, this is my second one ever...i'm having a load problem for windows. It's a newly formatted HD with no driver for old motherboards of anything. Windows just won't load. It's going to the screen to choose how you want to load windows, however it just restarts every time. i'v tried 2 differend HD's in it, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. Everything looks to be hooked up right. I installed a new mobo cpu and ram with my old harddrive. the computer starts no problem then I get a screen,
It basically asks me to open windows in safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe mode with command prompt last known good configuration or normally. I have tried all of them and all my computer does is run with white lines horizontally at the bottom of this message and then gives me a blue screen with an error. I tried inserting the cd for windows XP in and nothing! I tried using only one hard drive the master in all its diferent configurations (slave, master, etc) and nothing.
What do I have to do?
Oh at one time it starts running these messages with multi (0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)windowssystem32... HELP!!!!!. The setup is:

AMD Athlon 64 3700
Asus A8n-SLI Deluxe
GeForce 6800GS 256 MB
Maxtor 80GB HD
Corsair 1GB Memory

Also tried a Samsung 80GB HD
 
I had the same problem trying to reboot one of my older systems for my kids...

I have an E-Machine 667ir
Celeron
15 GBs
No special graphics

I got the message to remove all hardware that was not original so i removed the ethernet card.

I finally got the sytem to reboot w/ the restore disk (Windows ME) and i started it in safe mode and did a thorough disk scan, had some bad sectors so i checked the auto fix disk option.... it took about 5 hours...

I shut it down and let it rest for 1.5 hour went back to it then i kept getting NO OS... so I tryed to do a restore and the ghost wouldn't run, then finally it came back to me afer about an hour.... i left it on so when i get home today i will see what probs I have out of it...

any words of encouragement
 
I recently had a very similar problem. The problem turned out to be my WinXP CD.

Are you using a... less than legal copy of WinXP? If so, try reburning it at a slower speed.