I recently aquired a homebuilt, (used to be Gateway), P3 550, with 256 Meg of ram. Original HD was 10 gig, with DVD player, and Win XP. I saw this machine running. It seemed fine. I brought it home and had trouble ever since. First, after removong the orig HD, I added my 2 HD's which already had XP loaded, and ran just fine but power supply went out. Then I added my CD writer, leaving the DVD player. I checked all of the jumpers. HD's are on primary, master & slave, and CD writer is secondary master, and DVD is sec. slave. The BIOS sees all componants.
On boot up, I have to boot from the XP CD. System will not see the OS. OK, so I tried reloading the OS. Went as far as deleting partition, and formatting to ntfs. After formatting is done, I get a message that windows can not be loaded on this drive, and that it could be damaged, to try another partition. I always get the same message, even after trying different drives. I also tried a different, known good cable.
Any suggestions?
Please help.
Thanks,
Bob
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Jump to Posthere's a couple of sugestions:
install the problem drive into a different computer and try to install the OS. If it installs that proves the drive is good and the problem computer should be tested for faulty memory.
If the OS does not install, start the recovery console …
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