XP Install fail help
When installing XP Home.. the install runs through the 'Formatting' and after 100%, instead of starting the Windows install.. I get a message... could not create partition.
I tried to install on a small 20GB IDE HDD, and got the same results.. The equipment is my old PC that a friend of mine now has.
The PC was working. The reinstall was being done to correct DVD/RW Drive problem. The DVD Drive would see a disc..but not seen as a write to disc. You were able to run a disc, but not write to a disc, on either drive. Having 2 DVD drives, I tried to install XP Home 32bit from both drives. Same results 'Could not create partition'. I since have been told that one of the DVD drives has been a problem for a very long time. The other DVD drive is a working, take out (IDE) from my PC. Frustrated...today I am installing a Sata DVD/RW drive. Removing all IDE drives. Sata 1 will be the 320Gb HDD, and Sata 4 will be the DVD/RW drive. I am hoping it is a DVD/RW cause.
Before deciding on a restore.. I ran Windows Repair.. after running repair the PC would not boot. Repair was a failure.
The PC is: MSI K8n Neo4 F (3.0), AMD FX-55 (939), WD 320GB Blk Sata, 400W PSU, GeForce 7600GT, Lan card, 2X1Gb PC3200 Kingston Memory, 2ea IDE DVD RW Drives.
With this equipment the PC has been up and running for about 2 1/2 yrs. Then the Power switch became bad... equipment moved to new Antec 300 case. Ran fine...except for the DVD/RW drives.
Thanks for the help...
Amazing.. how people can be. I have to share this story. Just over a year ago my friend brought his PC to a local computer repair shop. The PC was cycleing on and off. They ntold him.. we can sell you a new Motherboard, CPU and memory.. your MB is bad. Well, they couldn't afford a couple of hundred dollars to fix it, and saved up. A year later we order a replacement MB online (K8n neo4 F) and I install it. Same on and off.. I found out it was thier Case and power switch..only! We install into a new Antec 300 and... all is good. But the dvd/rw wouldn't write or see a disc for writing. Here's what I found.. wow They were sabatoged! (by the PC repair shop, my friend doesn't know how to work on a PC).
One.. an added partition on their drive. A partiton of 9Gb unallocated, and the jumper was set to pins 1/2 (spreadspectrum), not 4/5 where it belomged. I removed their HDD and set it up clean off my PC. dvd/rw drives.. jumpers were moved to Slave.. on both. These people wanted them to fail and buy new equipment. I know my friend did not make these changes. So, the story here is sabatoge... sad story.
Good news... once I reinstalled their cleaned HDD and reset the jumper to 4/5 (thanks Bas for reminding me to look. I never expected my previous work to have been altered).. OS installed perfectly. I did replace their dvd/rw with a Sata one. (tes, a $20 oem I had from newegg)..Write to disc is good. All is good. So now my friend has a spare MB... or he can resell it. Had no PC for a year..over a miss diagnosis and bad business done to them.
A good ending..is a good ending.. thanks for all the notes here. Now I'll bring the PC back to my friend.. get the MSI disc (forgot to bring it here...lol)... Install the drivers... do the updates... and hope my friend gets to enjoy the PC for a long time. p.s my old CPU in the PC... FX-55 singlecore.... amazing how it can run even the newer demands of today... For a CPU that origionaly cost someone oner $1000 dollars (I got it used for $250, years ago)... it's like the last capiable singlecore... what a CPU... 2.6Ghz.. a great CPU of it's day and even today.
Thanks again
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