Da Mail Man
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Greetings All,
Been working on restoring a few computers I have here...I took an existing WORKING computer running WINDOWS 7, 2.8ghz, 2 gb ram, 40gb HD, removed the hard drive, installed a new 1TB HD SATA and am trying to load WIN XP (henceforth refered to as "xp") with the intent to partition and copy "7" to a partition on that new 1TB HD..... Computer is 32bit.
Boot priority is cd/dvd rom then, HD.....Appears to start installing from cd disc - "loading up at installation" then, get a NTLDR error stating is missing.....
1)....Cd/dvd drive was ck'ed for burn and play-back with no issues....
2)....The 1TB hd was "surface-checked" with no errors....
3)....The xp (pro) disc is intact with no damages, etc and, I have used it before....
I read the following but, appears that the author is stating "after-the-fact" with xp already installed whereas, I am doing a FRESH INSTALL ON A FORMATTED HD.
My desire is to run a dual boot computer with xp and "7".
I started out doing an exact copy of the removed 40GB sata hd over to the 1 TB HD ( I set the 40GB HD aside in case of problems) and leaving the partition alone.......I then formatted the unallocated/unused portion of that 1TB HD and attempted to install xp there...Win 7 was first on the HD.....
What could be the problem here?....(I cleared the bios just in case). If I have to have 2 HD"s installed so be it but, not my preference---and then again, there's that problem even fresh-loading XP which I cannot do on a partion with '7" existing nor can I do with attempting to install XP on the blank 1TB HD utilizing to entire HD!
Lastly, if I have to utilize 2 hd's, when booting, will I get a screen at boot asking which hd to boot from??....My experiment with this was reinstalling the untouched 40GB HD AND the 1 TB HD and when booting, bios selected the 40GB HD and not displayed any "choice"....NOTE - BOTH hd's contained "7" on them.
Thanks for any help and continued help!
Been working on restoring a few computers I have here...I took an existing WORKING computer running WINDOWS 7, 2.8ghz, 2 gb ram, 40gb HD, removed the hard drive, installed a new 1TB HD SATA and am trying to load WIN XP (henceforth refered to as "xp") with the intent to partition and copy "7" to a partition on that new 1TB HD..... Computer is 32bit.
Boot priority is cd/dvd rom then, HD.....Appears to start installing from cd disc - "loading up at installation" then, get a NTLDR error stating is missing.....
1)....Cd/dvd drive was ck'ed for burn and play-back with no issues....
2)....The 1TB hd was "surface-checked" with no errors....
3)....The xp (pro) disc is intact with no damages, etc and, I have used it before....
I read the following but, appears that the author is stating "after-the-fact" with xp already installed whereas, I am doing a FRESH INSTALL ON A FORMATTED HD.
My desire is to run a dual boot computer with xp and "7".
I started out doing an exact copy of the removed 40GB sata hd over to the 1 TB HD ( I set the 40GB HD aside in case of problems) and leaving the partition alone.......I then formatted the unallocated/unused portion of that 1TB HD and attempted to install xp there...Win 7 was first on the HD.....
What could be the problem here?....(I cleared the bios just in case). If I have to have 2 HD"s installed so be it but, not my preference---and then again, there's that problem even fresh-loading XP which I cannot do on a partion with '7" existing nor can I do with attempting to install XP on the blank 1TB HD utilizing to entire HD!
Lastly, if I have to utilize 2 hd's, when booting, will I get a screen at boot asking which hd to boot from??....My experiment with this was reinstalling the untouched 40GB HD AND the 1 TB HD and when booting, bios selected the 40GB HD and not displayed any "choice"....NOTE - BOTH hd's contained "7" on them.
Thanks for any help and continued help!
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