My hard drive was formated on a different system with casper xp to NTFS and in my computer (the one i want to install xp on) i have loaded in the bios optimal settings?
i want to install windows xp sp2 on this machine but when i set the machine to boot from dvd/cdrom it says error loading operating system what am i doin wrong
system is
M825G v.9.2 a or c - motherboard website is (pcchips.com)
dvd rw + dvd rom
1.8 Ghz
sorry i dont know the rest...
2007-02-15 07:45:15 · 2 answers · asked by Donkey_kong 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
also wen i formatted the hard drive with xp it asked me if i wanted to enable compresion i clicked yes...?????
2007-02-15 07:46:58 · update #1
But i have not made a bootable disk how do i do this if i have no operating system on my computer!!
2007-02-15 08:14:17 · update #2
also i think casper xp made my hard drive into one big partition how do i remove this so that i can format my hard drive into ntfs through windows because when i remove the hard drive in casper xp the computer no longer shows it..?
2007-02-15 08:17:44 · update #3
You probably aren't booting from the CD. It is looking for an operating system on the hard drive and there isn't one. You have to go into SETUP and change to boot order so that it tries to boot from the CD first.
To get into SETUP you will be prompted, when the machine boots, to press F1, or DEL or F10 or something like that to enter SETUP. Press the key it wants and go to the BOOT tab. Make the CD the first boot device.
2007-02-15 07:50:37 · answer #1 · answered by Kokopelli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A. Your XP disk is bad/unreadable.
B. Your dvd/cdrom drive is bad.
C. You may have to press a key during the "Press any key to boot from CD" message.
It sounds like your system is bypassing the CD boot and attempting to boot from the HD, which has no OS.
2007-02-15 07:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by whodeyflya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋