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[Zancloufer]

Some time ago I botched my Windows XP install (probably when I installed it). Essentially the partition XP is on is too small, and my computer is practically moving backwards it's so slow. I do have a pair of XP disks, on Home, and one Professional. The problem is, they won't load. I put the disk in the drives, rearrange the boot order to put them first, but the old XP still tries to load with both disks, I even disabled booting from the Hard drive, but I just get a boot disk error,

Also, trying to load anything via windows is pointless. After 30 minutes, it still hasn't loaded the essentials, so I'd say the current Installation is fucked. Any ideas? As awesome as Unbuntu is for my Laptop, it just won't run my computer games (can't make sense of of WINE either).

[Dauth]

Use the win XP pro to wipe the computer and re partition it and then re load it? Single OS this time round?

[Prophet of the Pimps]

try this.
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/install-...i-note-usb.html

maybe something is botched up in the CD drive.

[BeefJeRKy]

This seems like a SATA driver error because my desktop gave me the same problem so I was forced to use an IDE drive to install Win7. Your best bet is likely a full system wipe. And yes Ubuntu is awesome

[Zancloufer]

Tried PoTP's Flashdrive method. Followed the instructions, and made a bootable Flashdrive, or so it seemed. I can get it to boot from the flash, but when it starts it "NTLDR is missing". There where two things that did pop up though at the end that where not mentioned. One asked about renaming something (can't quite recall) but it said to do this would not work for a bootable USB, so I said no. The second one said to remove the image, and I said yes to that. Would that have any effect on the bootable flashdrive's function?

[Prophet of the Pimps]

only other thing i can think of is giving windows 7 RC a try. its very very easy to create a Windows 7 bootable usb drive (as easy as creating a Ubuntu usb bootable drive.). Its a great OS and almost as fast as Windows XP.

[BeefJeRKy]

Prophet of the Pimps, on 2 Aug 2009, 8:54, said:

only other thing i can think of is giving windows 7 RC a try. its very very easy to create a Windows 7 bootable usb drive (as easy as creating a Ubuntu usb bootable drive.). Its a great OS and almost as fast as Windows XP.

After using it for a while it feels faster thanks to Superfetch and a few other indexing tricks. I never found the extra second in which XP opens Office to be too much of a difference. Office is slow and that's something MS has to fix not with the OS but with the program.

[HotSoup]

What BIOS are you running. What is your motherboard manufacturer.

What exactly happens as far as the installed XP. Does it just stubbornly boot from the HDD no matter what you tell it to do?

Try resetting your BIOS(Turn off power, remove power cord from power supply socket. Wait for the LED's in the case(on the motherboard and power supply) to turn off. Remove the battery on the motherboard, wait a few seconds, replace), see if that works. Make sure everything plugged into the motherboard is plugged in via the power supply too(I've had instances of the BIOS getting hung up at a drive that was not receiving power yet was plugged into the motherboard). This probably shouldn't be a problem if you haven't fiddled around inside you case, but its good to check anyway.

Edited by HotSoup, 05 August 2009 - 06:11.

[Zancloufer]

Well I fixed the problem, by getting a new computer. Went to the best place I know for computer parts/repairs. They 'rebuilt' it for me. In all actuality all thats left is the wireless card and one of the hard drives (the second one was dying, that didn't help at all) and everything else is new. Needed an upgrade anyway, was running on a single core computer with DDR ram, and AGP slots.

Edited by Zancloufer, 06 August 2009 - 12:26.