elvisisdead
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I'm having a really hard time re-installing XP Pro on a new system. It came with XP Pro installed, and then the MBR was corrupted, and couldn't be recovered, so I'm trying to do a repair installation.
I set the first boot device to CD in the BIOS (Sidenote: DVD is master on secondary IDE channel, CDRW is slave). The system boots off of the CD fine (in the DVD drive), and begins the XP install. Then the system restarts, and goes to the XP startup screen. It then tells me that it can't find the file SNMS, and to tell it where it is. It only gives me the option of the A:\ and D:\ drives.
When I tell it the D:\ drive, I get nothing. The drive doesn't spin up and seek, or anything. However, when I tell it A:\, it spins the A:\ drive looking for the files.
What's going on? Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
I set the first boot device to CD in the BIOS (Sidenote: DVD is master on secondary IDE channel, CDRW is slave). The system boots off of the CD fine (in the DVD drive), and begins the XP install. Then the system restarts, and goes to the XP startup screen. It then tells me that it can't find the file SNMS, and to tell it where it is. It only gives me the option of the A:\ and D:\ drives.
When I tell it the D:\ drive, I get nothing. The drive doesn't spin up and seek, or anything. However, when I tell it A:\, it spins the A:\ drive looking for the files.
What's going on? Can anyone steer me in the right direction?