I have a pentium 2, 350 MHz comp. I had a 17 gb hard disk, and I had XP installed onto it before. Then I thought ou upgrading my computer. So, I had the BIOS upgraded (or rather flashed) so that I could use an 80 GB hard disk. And after that when I tried to install XP, I got a stop error saying NT loader error. I was unable to install xp... neither can I install NT. So, now I am still stuck with 98.
Any idea how to resolve this?
2007-01-04 17:02:09 · 2 answers · asked by Niks 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I'll bet that your BIOS caps out at 32 GB. There may not be any way around that. See of there's a 32 GB jumper on the drive and enable it. You'll only be able to use 32 GB but it might be the only way to make it work.
Some drives come with Dynamic Drive Overlay software that MIGHT work to enable the entire 80 GB but those have issues sometimes since they modify the MBR.
Just a hunch.
2007-01-04 17:24:20 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There might be a piece of hardware installed in your system that's not XP or NT compatible (drivers aren't there).
That would be more odd for XP than it would be for NT 4.0, but you never know. Strip your PC down to the bare necessities and see if you still have problems.
Personally, I don't think it's worth the fight. Even the cheapest, crappiest PC sold new today will absolutely destroy your old one, and likely would come with a free copy of XP.
2007-01-04 17:18:08 · answer #2 · answered by SirCharles 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋