I have a pentium 4, 2.8ghz pc. I have a problem where my hard drive died and I have had to replace it with another one. When I go to install windows xp it allows me to format the hard drive but then just re-boots rather than installing xp, and goes back to the initial stage. I have tried it with two spare hard drives that I have and the same thing happens. These are older drives and not SATA drives as don't have any of those. Any advice would be gratefully received.
are you sure it is actually formatting the drive or is it creating an active partition on the HDD, cos you must reboot XP before you can format the partition to install XP on
I don't think so, it appears to going back to the stage when you first boot with xp disk. I will check though and see
Maybe you should pre-format the drive and simply point windows installation to the prepared partition(s).
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yea, i didnt really read the thread, HD problems and lost data relate, so i thought I would just put that one in; i prolly should have made it an off-topic thread; like this one; ehh oh well; too lazy
