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Old January 6th 06, 12:31 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
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Default Presario 5BW130 HDD Install Problem

Matthew S Gillettewrote:
After tossing the old hard drive, I can't get this new Maxtor to take
WINXP.
I just want to load XP and start from scratch. Everything loads fine

for
copying, but on the first reboot before installing Windows, this

Compaq
can't seem to boot through. Is it missing bios info on a non-dos

partition
or something? I've only tried to boot to CD and am using WINXP
partitioning/formatting. I can't find any Compaq bootable disk files

which
will setup this HDD for an OS. Am I missing something glaringly

obvious.
Thank you in advance for any help.

5BW130 5000 Series
Compaq PC
Celeron
667/66 MHz
256 MB
sys rom date: 11.17.00
sysrom family: 686c3
chassis serial #:xxxxxxxxxxxx


I know this sounds silly, but did you take the installation CD out of
the drawer? It sounds like it's booting to the ROM drive over and
over.

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Old January 6th 06, 05:51 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
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dannysdailys Wrote:

I know this sounds silly, but did you take the installation CD out of
the drawer? It sounds like it's booting to the ROM drive over and
over.


Yeah, I forgot to tell: the CD and any other media were removed from
the drive before rebooting. It sounds incredible, but that sort of
things use to happen with Compaq PC's.


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Old January 7th 06, 03:31 AM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
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korckywrote:
dannysdailys Wrote:

I know this sounds silly, but did you take the installation CD out

of
the drawer? It sounds like it's booting to the ROM drive over and
over.

Yeah, I forgot to tell: the CD and any other media were removed from
the drive before rebooting. It sounds incredible, but that sort of
things use to happen with Compaq PC's.


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korcky[/quote:bb95172bcd]

No, this happens to all newer machines especially. They're set up to
boot Floppy, CD, then hard drive. A lot of them don't even have the
floppy, this has kind of snuck up on us.

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Old January 7th 06, 06:45 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
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dannysdailys Wrote:
korckywrote:

No, this happens to all newer machines especially. They're set up to
boot Floppy, CD, then hard drive. A lot of them don't even have the
floppy, this has kind of snuck up on us.


You are right, but the booting problem happened to me even though I had
set previously the right booting order (the HD first) in the BIOS setup
and removed the installation CD before rebooting: It always tried to
boot from the CD, because that drive was in the connector labeled 0 on
the IDE cable connected to the primary slot. It was not until I swapped
connections with the CD and HD when it finally recognized the HD as the
master device.


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Old September 6th 06, 04:09 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
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Default Presario 5BW130 HDD Install Problem

The cause of this problem in a Presario 5000 I was working on was that
the hard disk was on the secondary IDE channel. Worked fine with W98
and Wme but with xp caused the NTLDR not found message. Changed
cables and re ran the installation program and .... hey Presto! Bob's
your Uncle etc. all working fine.

Thanks for the many posts here that clued me in and saved heaps of
time.

 




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