Re: Problems loading XP on new hardrive

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Bios from HP

You might also want to try preparing the HD by booting from the winxp cd,
deleting any partitions, creating new, formatting and installing, as apposed
to preparing the disk on another PC

"Tony" <Tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi smlunatick,
Thanks for your helpful comments. Do I get the BIOS update from HP or
Microsoft?
How do I proceed once I get this?
Regards
Tony

"smlunatick" wrote:

On Feb 17, 11:47 am, Tony <T...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Assistance please,
I urgently need to replace my original laptop hardrive that was running
XP
Pro. but I am not being able to load the OS to a new disk.
The laptop is a Compaq NX9005 which has been very reliable for over 4
years.
I recently gave it to my daughter who after 2 months of use has had
disk
failure ( I have just been told) While I was away she sought the help
of a
friend who is into computers and fitted a replacement small drive of
10GB
with W/XP Home to help her with important work at the time. The disk,
which
was working perfectly well, has now been removed and I am replacing it
with a
spare 40gb that I had in good working order. (Has been formatted and
error-ckecked via USB cable connected to my desktop) ,After installing
and
running XP Pro from the original CD that did come with the laptop, all
the
initial files load up OK but when it gets to the page "Set up is
installing
your W/XP" it hangs and none of the commands, Continue, Repair or F3
respond.
What is stopping Windows loading on to the new disk?
Any advise will be much appreciated.
Tony

I have experienced some problems with Compaq systems. Some Compaqs
that I worked on will not accept a hard drive that does not seem to
have some type of Compaq "tweak" setting. That is to say, if you add
a "generic" hard drive purchased not from HP/Compaq, there might be a
chance that it might not work since the hard drive electronics do not
have a "Compaq" based firmware.

You might be able to fix this with a "BIOS" update.



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