&^%$#$@ xp

[phoenixd]

ok here it is i have put this new pc together and everything was fine until i decides to put a new hd in a maxtor 30 gb pretty small but was extremely cheap anyway i go and try to install xp on it and it wont go i try the 6 floppy boot disks and it gets to the point where it asks you to put the xp cd rom in and then press enter well after that nothing it womt read the stupid disk i have tried several times and still the same result i have tried several disks with the same effect. i have tried the 6 floppy disks for xp pro and a xp pro cd rom and still the same effect i have tried a 98 boot disk with a 98 cd rom and i get that installed but when i reboot i get this error 65 source 'e'\win 98\msmouse.vxd' dest c:\windows\system\msmouse.oo1=msmouse'.vxd
during install i get several interupt messages saying that it cant copy files from cab all of them containing msmouse, vjoyd0001-002-003-004. it wont let me install these drivers at all skip them yes. i have tried to copy several suggestions about making my own boot disk from boot.ini files and such but i dont know dos so it is hard to navigate through. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ALL OF THIS MONEY ON THIS NEW PIG AND NO OS!!!!!! i have at my disposal several xp and xp pro disks also a 98 se oem and a 98 plus cd several bootdisks but no patience left!!!!!!! please help with instructions please!!!! gong to scream here in a minute

k7s5a pro 512 sdram nVidia Geforce2 gts Philips pcs703 sound card (not installed yet) lucent modem amd 2000 xp throughbred

everyhting worked just fine until i started to play with the new hd i will be here reading and looking for answers


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[Max_Confusion]

did you use MAXBLAST to set up the hard drive or did you FDISK and format yourself?

I've never installed XP so maybe my question isn't relevant, since I don't know whether XP does fdisks and formats during install.

[JayMan]

From the sounds of it your cd drive may be playing up... Sounds like the discs are being read correctly...

How do you have the harddisk/s & cd drives setup? (e.g. which deivices are master/slave, and on which IDE channel)

JayMan

[phoenixd]

ok ide-0 is hardrive 30gb maxtor and i used there software to set it up no primary slave secondary master is a hitichi cd-rom and secondary slave is a idee 5244 something like that. the hd is set to 1 partition ntsf

[Max_Confusion]

is it an ATA100/133 drive are you using the 80 wire cable if it is or an old 40 wire cable. If it is an ATA100/133 drive The 80 wire cable is needed for the HDD to work properly.

[jmebonner]

Could be a problem w/ the ram or the ram slot, XP is VERY picky about that. I had the same thing on a K7S5A. I spent a weekend trying everything, finally seitched the ram to the second slot and everything was peachy. If that doesn't fix it, can you borrow a known working stick from a friend?

[phoenixd]

it is a ata 100 and i am not using the ribbon cable that came with it i am using i belive a 100/133 cable clear you can see the wire inside seems to fit allright didn;t notice a difference yes i have other memory to try and will the thing is i tried to instal 98 but it wouldnt go all the way (see 1 first message for reason) can anyone give detailed instructions on different ways to just get a os in here and then maybe try to upgrade????

[JPMiller]

Trouble is it sounds like a hardware error not a software/OS problem necessarily.
Can you hook up the 30 gig to a working machine, to run a scandisk or HD utility from maker's site?

[Max_Confusion]

instead of using your clear cable, try the one that came with the hdd... what can it hurt, maybe your cable isn't the right kind

the problem you are describing, is similar to something that happened to me when I used the wrong cable.

[phoenixd]

ok i will try the original cable that came with the hd and i will try to hook it up to my other pc but i am not exactley sure on the procedure does anyone have that info i sure would appreciate it?????