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Originally posted by Ganjasaurus
not sure if this helps but, if i remove the xp pro install cd at reboot, i get a black screen with this white text: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device."
ps. who decided which words were to be capitalized in this error?
then i put cd back in and reboot and it tries to start all over agin with windows setup.
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Yeah fdisk, and partition a new drive, cause this will delete and reinstate any old boot sectors on the drive.
Also one thing to check with windows xp pro, if its a new computer, i had a prob with one of those seagate 10000rpm drives. You actually need to install the specific raid drivers for the drive for your installation cd. Have a read on your HDD install book and find out whether it runs via raid or not. If so copy the right files onto a floppy from your hdd install cd and hit f6 when windows setup is loading and load the raid drivers from your floppy.
If either of those 2 dont work, take the pc back and tell them its fucked.
Lemme know how you go
BigNath
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