trouble installing slipstreamed winxp SP2

[tendercare]

hello,

I tried installing win xp (home edition with slipstreamed Service Pack 2)on my reserve pc.

I let it run by itself, and when I came back to it, the screen was stuck with this:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a253/tendercare/stoppedherethenwentblackscreen.jpg

then later the screen just went black.

*my slipstreamed cd never had the same problem with my main pc.

 

[tendercare]

actually, I recently installed a 2nd hdd on it.

my main hd has 2 partitions, C and D.

The weird thing that happened before was instead of the new hdd taking the letter E, it became drive D and the 2nd partition in the main hdd became E.

Is drive letter swapping a sign of a faulty hdd?

 

[TheCh0s3n1]

It does sound like the master HDD could be defective. What is the HDD brand? Go to their website to download a drive diagnostics utility, then run it.

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[beth]

maybe you need to disable floppy seek

 

[tendercare]

hey it worked! It was my first time to buy a pc w/o a floppy. many thanks