Re: New Hard Drive, XP Install is looping

From: Andy (1_at_2.3)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 04:38:01 GMT

If you can boot from the XP installation CD, then creating boot
floppies won't give you anything extra. How about some details on the
new drive (interface, capacity, did you create the partition during
the setup process)?

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:32:02 -0700, Ian <Ian@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I'm upgrading my hard drive (removing the old) and have a legit OEM CD and License. Booting from the OEM CD works fine but loops through the Format Hard Drive and copy files. If I remove the CD when auto reboot occurs I get a Boot Disk Failure message.
>Do I need a boot floppy with CD Support?

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