hi
I recently put a new pc together and had all sorts of problems with my jumper setings on the hard drives,i now think i have that sorted because on th inital boot up it decets all both mastar and slave drives but when i put in the xp mce disc to bot up it takes ages to get to the blue set up screen then i can hit f8 to agree with whatever it is im agreeing tooand it shows me the drives i can put xp on too i choose the mastar drive with has the smallest capacity(60gig) and it formats the partition then loads the first part of set up(no product key has been asked for as yet)it fully loads and says system will reeboot in 15 seconds to continue with set up,when it reeboots it just goes back to the stat again askin me to agree (f8) and start install, when i do that is says already a copy of xp has been installed,if i take disc out and boot ftrom drive or floppy it detects drives then says insert bootable media are select proper bootable device? ive tried everything i can think of but nothing,MY HEAD IS MELTED.i got the disc of a friend and planned to use my product code but on the disc it says for dell only would this make any difference?
I recently put a new pc together and had all sorts of problems with my jumper setings on the hard drives,i now think i have that sorted because on th inital boot up it decets all both mastar and slave drives but when i put in the xp mce disc to bot up it takes ages to get to the blue set up screen then i can hit f8 to agree with whatever it is im agreeing tooand it shows me the drives i can put xp on too i choose the mastar drive with has the smallest capacity(60gig) and it formats the partition then loads the first part of set up(no product key has been asked for as yet)it fully loads and says system will reeboot in 15 seconds to continue with set up,when it reeboots it just goes back to the stat again askin me to agree (f8) and start install, when i do that is says already a copy of xp has been installed,if i take disc out and boot ftrom drive or floppy it detects drives then says insert bootable media are select proper bootable device? ive tried everything i can think of but nothing,MY HEAD IS MELTED.i got the disc of a friend and planned to use my product code but on the disc it says for dell only would this make any difference?