Re: New installation of Windows need Start Up Disk?

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I am still trying to solve the problem, despite trying many different
configurations the bios seems to need to look at the CD Rom with a Win XP Pro
disk before going to the SATA hard disk and booting into XP. Most frustrating.
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Nick
Learning something new every day...


"Andy" wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:09:01 -0800, NickSq
<NickSq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Andy, I have only one HDD on the system and this is set to the top of
the Hard Disk Priority list...

In this case make sure Hard Drive is in the boot sequence.

.

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