Re: Is XP Pro fussy like XP Home is?

From: ***TominFL*** (TominFL_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/17/04


Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:14:05 -0800

Yes they are to both questions.
I gave up and bought another Win XP to use on the new HDD and started from
scratch. I will likely sell the old system with XP on it. Thanks so much for
trying to help me.

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

> It sounds like the BIOS is not recognizing the presence of a CD
> drive. Are the new hard drive and the CD drive on the same IDE
> controller? If so, are they both jumpered correctly?
>
> --
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
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> "***TominFL***" <TominFL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0EC12E56-7212-43E0-A16E-1985ADF244CD@microsoft.com...
> > Bruce, I can't get the OS to load. It halts just after the POST. I
> > set system
> > to go to
> > the CD for boot and when it does it goes to the point of showing the
> > C: but
> > doesn't show the Windows on that drive. I'm affraid to go to setup
> > because it
> > will probably try to load XP from scratch and I'd loose all my aps.
> > Am I
> > missing something?
> >
>
>
>



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