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SOURCE: Boot Failure

i am assuming you have allowed the bios to detect that there is a different hard drive fitted as it will be looking to boot from an non existent drive. If you have fitted a new HDD with an operating system already on it then you will have to repair windows as its a change in hardware. If you cant get the bios to see the drive then the motherboard has an IDE or Sata connector problem.

SOURCE: Hard drive driver problem

Hi,

It is possible that your hard drive is a SATA and therefore not readily readable by 98, XP but surprised not even by Vista. In any case, since you would still prefer to run XP (due to other software compatibility issues), pls press F6 when prompted by the XP installer. Additionally, you would need to have ready in a floppy the appropriate SATA drivers for your motherboard. They maybe downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer's website or possibly in the installer/driver CD that came with the PC.

Other than the above, it is also possible that you may have some issues with the availability of XP drivers for the other devices for that computer specially if it is branded.

Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards.

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SOURCE: how to forat the hard drive

Good day sir, hi, lets review first some of the reasons why windows xp cannot be installed on your PC, here are the possibilities :

1. Your Windows XP CD is scratched beyoned readable. You will get prompts for missing files or files that can't be read on the CD. Get a good copy of windows XP.
2. A memory module (ram) or some are defective, you get the blue screen with all sorts of warnings and data you can't understand and numbers you don't know. Check your ram modules. To be sure have it tested on another PC. If bad, replace it.
3. Your memory should be aleast 128 mb or more for windows XP to install properly.
4. Your CD/DVD drive is bad or selective of the CDs it reads, you may need to check the drive.
5. your hard drive is bad, or has to much bad sectors near the boot area, where windows install its system and boot files, you have no choice but to replace it with a new one, or else you cannot format the old one no matter how.

SOURCE: I ahve a lg p1

To get it to recognise the hard drive you simply need to press F2 at the first boot screen to go to the bios menu. Move across to the options related to the hard drive and change the AHCI option to disabled. Exit saving your changes and when it reboots it will detect your hard drive and let you proceed with the installation.

phoenix kirkham

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• Posted on May 20, 2010

SOURCE: hello, i have just bought a new lg hdd hxd2 2.5...

Well if your computer wont recognize the drive,how do you know it works fin.