re: New installation - error loading operating system
Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 5:44 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rami Taher Wahdan
(474 messages posted)
Dear All,
maybe the OS CD is corrupted! have to thought about that ? i did have this problem
before...i do full format and install the OS and everything is good up until i reboot.
i started getting errors just like ur saying. so check ur OS CD on other computer.
Best regards,
Rami Wahdan.
On Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 4:55 am, Lisa Allen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I had a dual boot (XP, Fedora Core 4) on my hard drive (40G Maxtor DiamondMax),
but
>bought a new motherboard (Foxconn 6100) and processor (Athlon 64 3500+) and want
>to reinstall both O/S as previously.
>
>FIrst attempt was successful, but couldn't get Linux to boot. Decided to just
>use XP, but reinstall gave me the blue screen/unmountable_boot_volume. I tried
fixmbr
>and fixboot from the Recovery Console, to no avail. I reinstalled (again), and
now
>all I get is Error loading operating system on the black screen. I've tried deleting
>and recreating the partitions, tried on one partition (the whole drive) both NTFS
>and FAT32 file systems through the XP installer with no success. I've tried changing
>the BIOS to LBA, CHS and also to Auto, and used the optimised defaults - all unsuccessful.
>
>I tested the hard drive with PowerMax from Maxtor - all tests passed. I did
a
>full low level format (writes 0's to the disk) and a re-install still gave the Error
>loading operating system error.
>
>Please help me - I'm at my wit's end and just want any O/S to work! Do I need
>to buy a new hard drive, even though the Maxtor diagnostics says it is error free?
>
>Cheers, Lisa
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