re: New installation - error loading operating system
Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 5:45 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Johnb33
(2283 messages posted)
You most likely have to install the sata driver at the f6 prompt when installing
windows in order for the system to see the drive to install it too.
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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