Alright, I am in quite a situation and have no idea how to solve this problem. I and every person I know has not been able to figure it out. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
I recently was given a new computer that was fairly decent. It has worked perfectly for the last month or so. However, it only had a twenty gig IDE hard drive so I decided to swap it for something bigger. I plugged in the new one and put in a windows XP disk to load it on. It would load on the setup files and say it will reboot then continue setup. When it reboots, it won't boot from the newly created and formatted C:\ drive. Then, it will continue to boot from the CD drive again. I have even tried formatting and installing the original hard drive again. I have swapped out the RAM to make sure it wasn't causing any problems. I have also taken out other hardware, leaving the keyboard and the hard drive. So, I am pretty sure it's not a hardware problem.
If anyone has any ideas on how to get this computer to work properly again and load windows, please let me know.
-Kyle
I recently was given a new computer that was fairly decent. It has worked perfectly for the last month or so. However, it only had a twenty gig IDE hard drive so I decided to swap it for something bigger. I plugged in the new one and put in a windows XP disk to load it on. It would load on the setup files and say it will reboot then continue setup. When it reboots, it won't boot from the newly created and formatted C:\ drive. Then, it will continue to boot from the CD drive again. I have even tried formatting and installing the original hard drive again. I have swapped out the RAM to make sure it wasn't causing any problems. I have also taken out other hardware, leaving the keyboard and the hard drive. So, I am pretty sure it's not a hardware problem.
If anyone has any ideas on how to get this computer to work properly again and load windows, please let me know.
-Kyle