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Windows XP installation on K8NS Pro - error loading OS
Hi,
Tearing my hair out today; can't seem to get my new system up and running with my XP Home CD- I am unable to get past the first reboot after copying files from the CD onto the HDD. Looking for help - hopefully it is a simple BIOS setting that everyone who builds using Gigabyte knows about... so please forgive the amount of detail below... Symptom: Booting from CD, go through the normal prompts to install a fresh version of XP. The setup program copies the required files to the HDD and reboots. Upon reboot, I get an error message "error loading operating system". No matter what I try (and the attempts are detailed below), I can't get the mainboard to recognize that there is an XP installation just waiting to be configured waiting on the C drive. What I'm using & what I've tried: I'm simply using a Seagate ATA 10GB drive, freshly FDISK'd and formatted with a 2GB FAT32 partition (leaving the rest empty, just making this primary DOS partition active). I've also tried NTFS, it doesn't solve the problem. My new mainboard is the K8NS Pro; I've flashed it to F4 (no change in symptoms) and disabled all of the RAID options (again, no change in symptoms, although I haven't built up the HDD from scratch after doing this). I've also built up XP on this 10GB disk on my old Compaq Deskpro PIII 450 system; it installs as it should... but I can't get that configured disk/OS to be recognized by my new mainboard (I've read that I should be using some recovery options within the setup disk, but I haven't got around to that yet, plus it seems a poor solution to the problem of not being able to install from scratch). Any light that can be shed would be much appreciated! |
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i have had a similar problem with this mb, but i solved it disabling both
raids. Try to unplug all drives from the mb except the master and the cd and retry. With another motherboard I have had another related problem, in this case I have concluded that it was due to a faulty hard disk, it had been always working perfectly as slave but it was not capable of booting. Try with another hard disk. "Dave S" escribió en el mensaje om... Hi, Tearing my hair out today; can't seem to get my new system up and running with my XP Home CD- I am unable to get past the first reboot after copying files from the CD onto the HDD. Looking for help - hopefully it is a simple BIOS setting that everyone who builds using Gigabyte knows about... so please forgive the amount of detail below... Symptom: Booting from CD, go through the normal prompts to install a fresh version of XP. The setup program copies the required files to the HDD and reboots. Upon reboot, I get an error message "error loading operating system". No matter what I try (and the attempts are detailed below), I can't get the mainboard to recognize that there is an XP installation just waiting to be configured waiting on the C drive. What I'm using & what I've tried: I'm simply using a Seagate ATA 10GB drive, freshly FDISK'd and formatted with a 2GB FAT32 partition (leaving the rest empty, just making this primary DOS partition active). I've also tried NTFS, it doesn't solve the problem. My new mainboard is the K8NS Pro; I've flashed it to F4 (no change in symptoms) and disabled all of the RAID options (again, no change in symptoms, although I haven't built up the HDD from scratch after doing this). I've also built up XP on this 10GB disk on my old Compaq Deskpro PIII 450 system; it installs as it should... but I can't get that configured disk/OS to be recognized by my new mainboard (I've read that I should be using some recovery options within the setup disk, but I haven't got around to that yet, plus it seems a poor solution to the problem of not being able to install from scratch). Any light that can be shed would be much appreciated! |
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