Boot Up problem

Raggamuffin

having a problem with pc at the moment wondering if anybody can help.

I tried to upgrade a windows 2000 installation to Xp and afterwrads the computer did not boot to windows xp. I tried booting to the other IDE hard drive and it booted windows 2000 normally.

Now i brought the harddrive with windows xp into the other computer i had and i did a fresh install. Windows xp (professional btw) booted perfectly on that machine. Now i brough the hard drive back into my own pc and windows xp would only get to the loading screen before automatically rebooting. So i installed a fresh copy of windows 2000 just like i had on it before and now that won't boot either... same problem.

So this is the situation my harddrives will not boot on 1st pc but will boot perfectly fine and 2nd pc i have which is almost identical to 1st pc except different motherboard.

i will post the two mother boards being used but i'm kind of at a wits end as i've reset the bios and everything is still the same if not worse than before.

if anyone knows of anywhere to see how to fix this and knows themselves i'd be very grateful.


p.s i hope i'm posting this in the correct forum

Occidental

Let me know if I've got this right.

You tried to upgrade PC1 from Win2K to XP, but the upgrade has failed.
You've installed XP from scratch on PC2 and then moved this to PC1, but it hangs. You've then installed W2K from scratch on PC2 and moved the drive to PC1, but this also fails to boot.

If all the above is correct, then I would expect XP and W2K installs not to work when moved between machines, especially if they have different system boards.

Is there a reason why you can't do a fresh install of XP on machine 1.

Raggamuffin

Yeah PC1 won't detect my SATA drive when i boot from the cd.
This is for either windows 2K and XP.
Like i ran all chkdsk scans by putting the hard drive through PC2 and boths windowsXP and 2000 boot from the cd on PC2.

But it does show up in the bios.
The only thing to change since the bios reset is that now my IDE drive is not being detected..

This is for either windows 2K and XP.

At the moment after it hangs for 2K i get a Blue screen
For XP it just restarts.

Voodoo2

Raggamuffin wrote:

Yeah PC1 won't detect my SATA drive when i boot from the cd.

Are you hitting F6 to install sata drivers when you install XP if you install it on another machine the drivers will be different for the SATA drive

Raggamuffin

no i haven't hit F6...

I lost the driver cd a long time ago though... it's an MSI board... i'm not home right now so i cna't think of the exact name K8T NEO... something like that...

But still when i boot from the cd will i have to press F6 before i try to install windows?

Voodoo2

You will need to find those drivers, just get your motherboard model & brand and just go on to their website and get the drivers!

You will have to hit F6 in order to install SATA drivers for windows XP to see the SATA Hard disk or it will just sit on a blue screen before the partitioning section of the install

Raggamuffin

how will i install the drivers though?

Occidental

you need to get your board number and pull down the drivers for your board from the MSI site. Then redo your install and load the SATA drivers for your board at the start of the install.

Voodoo2

Usually you put them on a floppy disk during setup!

Raggamuffin

ok so let me get this correct...

PC1 which won't boot to either windows xp or windows 2000 is not booting because the SATA drivers are not loaded properly right?

So i use PC2 to download the drivers and install them during a fresh install or either XP or 2000?

ok so i'll have to put the floppy drive back into the machine.

i'm still unsure...

Occidental

Spot on. XP doesn't appear to have default drivers for your SATA adapter so you need to provide the driver on diskette during the install. Make sure the drivers are not zipped when you put them on the diskette.