Problem with old hp 6643 Xp install

chainheart · 04-27-2008, 12:08 AM

Having trouble installing XP on an old HP pavilion 6643. It's a pretty ancient computer and it had windows 98 on it before. The hard drive is completely formatted but for some reason it won't load the XP CD from the drive even when the CD-Rom drive is defaulted to the first boot device. I tried switching IDE cables, IDE slots and even another CD-rom drive but it just says "no operating system installed" and doesn't even try to boot from the CD.

oscaryu1 · 04-27-2008, 01:12 AM

Jumpers set up correctly? CD is not scratched/bad?

chainheart · 04-27-2008, 03:41 AM

Everything inside looks fine, it just acts like there is no disk to boot from at all

oscaryu1 · 04-27-2008, 03:56 AM

www.bootdisk.com

Make a XP bootdisk, and boot from it.

04-27-2008, 12:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
chainheart New Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2	Problem with old hp 6643 Xp install Having trouble installing XP on an old HP pavilion 6643. It's a pretty ancient computer and it had windows 98 on it before. The hard drive is completely formatted but for some reason it won't load the XP CD from the drive even when the CD-Rom drive is defaulted to the first boot device. I tried switching IDE cables, IDE slots and even another CD-rom drive but it just says "no operating system installed" and doesn't even try to boot from the CD.

04-27-2008, 01:12 AM	#2 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 9,856	Jumpers set up correctly? CD is not scratched/bad? __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

04-27-2008, 03:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 9,856	www.bootdisk.com Make a XP bootdisk, and boot from it. __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

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04-27-2008, 03:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
chainheart New Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2	Everything inside looks fine, it just acts like there is no disk to boot from at all