Just finished assembling the new computer. Powered it on and everthing seems to have worked...POST screen comes up and then frinal message OS failure no OS....insert OS and press enter.
Get 1st screen -Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration.
Get 2nd screen- Windows setup (blue screen)
To set up Windows XP now press Enter
To repair press R
To quit press F3
I press enter
Get screen 3- License agreement Press F8 to accept
I Press F8
Get Screen 4 The following list shows existing partitions and unpartitioned space on your
computer
Use up and down arrow keys to select and item on the list
to set up windows xp on the selected item press enter
to create a partition in the unpartitioned space press C
to delete the selected partition press D
I want to install windows XP on the first HD.....so I press enter.
Get screen 4 To install windows XP on the partition you selected windows must write some startup files to the following disk
476938 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR)
However this disk does not contain a windows XP compatible partition.
to continue installing windows XP, return to the partition selection screen and create a windows XP compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no free space on the disk, dekete an existing partition, and create a new one.
Press enter to return to partition selection screen.
I go back to the partition selection screen and I see the first drive is labeled
C: Partition1 (New RAW) 476930MB (476929 MB Free)
Unpartitioned spaces (8 MB)
At this point I'm in a loop..if I delete the partiton and try it again...same result. If I delete the partition and select create a partition and select the maximum amount of disk space, I get the same result. I'm in a loop.
What am I doing wrong?
I have two identical seagate 500 GB hard drives installed. On the partition selection page it lists both of them...I notice that both are shown as Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR). shouldn't they be different?
Get 1st screen -Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration.
Get 2nd screen- Windows setup (blue screen)
To set up Windows XP now press Enter
To repair press R
To quit press F3
I press enter
Get screen 3- License agreement Press F8 to accept
I Press F8
Get Screen 4 The following list shows existing partitions and unpartitioned space on your
computer
Use up and down arrow keys to select and item on the list
to set up windows xp on the selected item press enter
to create a partition in the unpartitioned space press C
to delete the selected partition press D
I want to install windows XP on the first HD.....so I press enter.
Get screen 4 To install windows XP on the partition you selected windows must write some startup files to the following disk
476938 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR)
However this disk does not contain a windows XP compatible partition.
to continue installing windows XP, return to the partition selection screen and create a windows XP compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no free space on the disk, dekete an existing partition, and create a new one.
Press enter to return to partition selection screen.
I go back to the partition selection screen and I see the first drive is labeled
C: Partition1 (New RAW) 476930MB (476929 MB Free)
Unpartitioned spaces (8 MB)
At this point I'm in a loop..if I delete the partiton and try it again...same result. If I delete the partition and select create a partition and select the maximum amount of disk space, I get the same result. I'm in a loop.
What am I doing wrong?
I have two identical seagate 500 GB hard drives installed. On the partition selection page it lists both of them...I notice that both are shown as Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR). shouldn't they be different?