HP A1020N Desktop with P4 3.06 - Reboot Problem

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dominover

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I recently bought an HP A1020N Desktop with P4 3.06 (HP Pavilion) without a hard drive. I put my own hard drive in that computer.

My own hard drive came from my no name compur which was a Pentium 4 2GiG Processor. The new computer (the Pavilion) is a P4 3.06GiG Processor.

When I put the hard drive from my old computer into the new one the computer asks me to rebook. I have my boot disks for Windows XP as that's whats installed on the hard drive. When I get to Disk 6 (there are 7 disks), I'm using floppy disks, I get an error. The computer tells me that there is possibly a virus on my hard drive or it isn't connected properly. Not sure why it's doing this? I'm thinking it has to do with the fact that the Processors are different. I Originally had a P4 but am now putting the same hard drive in a P3.06 Ghz computer.

Any other reasons why this is happening.

There is also the issue of which lead to connect to the hard drive. The plug which goes into the hard drive says 'Slave' on the ribbon wire. The identical plug going to the DVD burner says 'Master' on the ribbon wire next to where the plug is attached. Should it be the other way around?

It sounds like a hard drive issue to me but I'm certain that my Hard drive is OK.
Any clues.
Thanks so much
dominover
 
Yes you get a blue screen of death because the processors and hardware is different yes, but doesn't XP come on a single CD? No need to use floppy disks unless you need to load a SATA RAID controller driver before installation - is that why you're using floppy disks?

Are the HDD and DVD drive plugged into the same IDE cable?
 
spirit said:
Yes you get a blue screen of death because the processors and hardware is different yes, but doesn't XP come on a single CD? No need to use floppy disks unless you need to load a SATA RAID controller driver before installation - is that why you're using floppy disks?

Are the HDD and DVD drive plugged into the same IDE cable?
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Hi. Thanks for getting back.
Both the DVD Drive and HDD are plugged into the same cable. Is that supposed to happen?

Secondly, if I'm rebooting I have 7 boot disks. The reboot process goes well until I get to Disk 6 when that blue screen comes up. Would it be because of the reason you've stated above. That hard drive has windows installed on it as it was on my last P4 2 Ghz PC. It has now been placed into a P4 3.06GHz PC. Would that be the reason why I'm having this problem. Would this mean I need to wipe the Hard Drive clean and reinstall everything? If so, is there any way around wiping my hard disk and doing eveything again. The reason I ask is there's allot of info on that hard drive I don't want to lose.

Thanks.
dominover
 
The DVD drive and the HDD should each have their own cable/channel ideally, otherwise the HDD speed will be bottlenecked I think.

What are these boot disks for?

What you need to do is plug the hard drive into a working computer, copy everything you need off it, put it back in the other computer, format the disk using the XP CD and then reinstall XP on it.
 
Thanks. I have copied the message. Will type below.

'A problem has been detected adn windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you have seen this stop error screen restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer, remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK / F to check for hard drive corruption, an dthen restart your computer.

Technical Information:

***STOP 0x0000007B (0xF8981524, OxC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)'

Not sure if the above helps. I actually don't have the means to erase the disk as I don't have a computer to do it on. If this is definetly the problem I'll have to purchase a used drive (just to get me through this process), then erase everything and then transfer it back.

Can anyone see any way around this.

Thanks.
 
I have bought a new hard drive and it's still giving me the message above when I use the boot disks before installing windows xp. Any reason why that his happening?
 
spirit said:
The DVD drive and the HDD should each have their own cable/channel ideally, otherwise the HDD speed will be bottlenecked I think.

What are these boot disks for?

What you need to do is plug the hard drive into a working computer, copy everything you need off it, put it back in the other computer, format the disk using the XP CD and then reinstall XP on it.
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But saying that... I run my HDD and my CD Drive (Ancient - it has a headphone jack!) on one IDE cable, I never get any problemo's
 
dominover said:
I have bought a new hard drive and it's still giving me the message above when I use the boot disks before installing windows xp. Any reason why that his happening?
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Could be because you are using the wrong boot disks if you are trying to install a SATA controller before XP install begins. If you're using IDE you likely don't even need the boot disks.
 
That error code you are getting means inaccessible boot device. So in other words there is something wrong with the controller or motherboard.

This new hard drive, is it IDE or Sata? The problem you are having is that you are trying to use setup disks on a HP system that either needs an actual XP install cd or HP recovery cd's that are probably no longer available. Do you know of anyone that has an OEM XP install cd with SP2 or SP3 already included in it? If you do, just use that to install and use the key that is on the side of the case of the HP to activate.
 
johnb35 said:
That error code you are getting means inaccessible boot device. So in other words there is something wrong with the controller or motherboard.

This new hard drive, is it IDE or Sata? The problem you are having is that you are trying to use setup disks on a HP system that either needs an actual XP install cd or HP recovery cd's that are probably no longer available. Do you know of anyone that has an OEM XP install cd with SP2 or SP3 already included in it? If you do, just use that to install and use the key that is on the side of the case of the HP to activate.
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Thanks. This could very well be it. I've connected my HD to an IDE cable though there are sata connectors attached to the motherboard as well. It probably had a Sata drive attached to the computer before. Now I'm attaching an IDE drive. I think I need to get these recovery cd's before I go on.
A relatively simple operation is starting to increase in costs. Anyone know where I can download these recovery disks?

Thanks
dominover
 
You can't download them. They must be ordered from HP if they are still available for your model. Contact HP.
 
Would anyone know how to set the BIOS setting in an HP Pavillion for the Hard drive, from Sata to IDE. I did the smart test but I'm under the impression I have to do something else. There's a section which states PATA/SATA controllers - Enabled/both etc. Not sure what the setting should be here if I only have IDE connections and no SATA.

Any clues.
Thanks
Dominover
 
OK, thanks. But how do I know in BIOS if the controller is enabled? That seems to be what I may have wrong. I've gone in to BIOS and gone to the Advanced Tab and selected the IDE adabter to both and the SATA adapter to disabled. When I do this the hard drive stops showing up so I have to seet the SATA adapter to enabled for both. Doesn't make sense to me considering I've connected the hard drive and DVD drive to the IDE cable. I've set the jumper to Cable Select on both and tried the absolute settings as well.

Because this is a new hard drive, it will have the partition missing with the system reboot information on it. From what I understand (from previous answers), this means I have to obtain it from HP via CD for around $60. Surely there's another way around this. I'm not sure how to install anything without windows installed but I can't install windows because I can't boot the computer. The windows CDS definetly don't work, I need windows boot disks of which I have been using. Once I get to disk 6 I get the previous error message I've mentioned. The hard drive registers in the BIOS and shows up in the boot menue before I reboot.

Not sure what else to do here. Is there some secret BIOS setting which will make this work. Every bios has some wierd variation so I'm not sure now if I've set it correctly. I have a Desktop HP Pavillion A1020N.

Any clues.
Thanks for the help so far.
Dominover.
 
I can't explain why disabling the sata controller would stop the computer from recognizing the IDE hard drive. Technically there is no reason to disable the sata controller anyway. Like I said before, you'll either need the HP recovery cd's or an actual xp install cd. Its possible there is data missing from your setup disks.
 
I've finally fixed this. The Bios was set up correctly and there was nothing wrong with my Windows CD as I originally thought. It turned out that it wouldn't boot from the CD becasue the CD/DVD drive was faulty. Replacing it with a new one fixed the problem instantly. \

Thanks for the input everyone. This is a good forum.
Cheers
Dominover
 
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