| Subject: HDD installation and Creating a Partition |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 6/5/2008 7:25:04 AM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?bGVzZ3J1bmQ=?= [Email Address Protection] |
It is apparently obvious, that being a novice, I've done something wrong when installing a HDD. Having installed the HDD, I now want to install Windows XP. I have set BIOs to boot from the CD Rom drive and everything works fine until I get to the list of partitions. Selecting C allows me to create the partition which, then then asks me to stipulate the size of the partition. Happy for the default maiximum I press Enter to create and then Enter again to Install. It is at this point that things do not go to plan and the following message is displayed: "To install Windows XP on the partition you selected........................... However, this disk does not contain a Windows XP - compatible partition." It then asks me to return to the partition screen and repeat the steps to create a partition! The disk is shown as 16120 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR). A big kiss to the first techy that tells me what a fool I am. Looking at the disk info I fear that the Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 is where the error lies. Help....... Many thanks in anticipation and keep up the good work. -- lesgrund |
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| Subject: Re: HDD installation and Creating a Partition |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 6/14/2008 3:07:46 PM |
| From: Gerry Hickman [Email Address Protection] |
Hi, 1. I'd suggest using Vista, not XP, it's much more up-to-date for modern drives. 2. If you must use XP, you'd need to give technical details of the type of drive, the interface wiring, and the available BIOS support. (e.g. SATA using AHCI) lesgrund wrote: > It is apparently obvious, that being a novice, I've done something wrong when > installing a HDD. > > Having installed the HDD, I now want to install Windows XP. I have set BIOs > to boot from the CD Rom drive and everything works fine until I get to the > list of partitions. Selecting C allows me to create the partition which, then > then asks me to stipulate the size of the partition. Happy for the default > maiximum I press Enter to create and then Enter again to Install. It is at > this point that things do not go to plan and the following message is > displayed: > > "To install Windows XP on the partition you > selected........................... > > However, this disk does not contain a Windows XP - compatible partition." > > It then asks me to return to the partition screen and repeat the steps to > create a partition! > > The disk is shown as 16120 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR). > > A big kiss to the first techy that tells me what a fool I am. Looking at the > disk info I fear that the Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 is where the error lies. > Help....... > > Many thanks in anticipation and keep up the good work. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) |
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