If you can fix EITHER problem (find a way to repair the old hard drive or find a way to install XP on the new hard drive), I'll give points. Processor: AMD Athlon Barton 2500+ (overclocked)
HDD 2: 200 GB Maxtor (the one I'm trying to install Windows on) HDD 1: 80 GB Western Digital (the one that won't boot Windows) Attempted both Windows 98SE and Windows 95 bootable disks, did > work, but neither can see the hard drive (I'm guessing it is NTFS or > some other more advanced system). BIOS detects the hard drive and Windows XP Recovery Console can see the files in there, so I kind of doubt that's the problem. Cause This error message indicates that the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable. This hard drive is really large (200 GB) and I heard that that could be a problem, but I'm not sure. When you use Boot diagnostics to view the screenshot of the VM, you will see that the screenshot displays a prompt with the message 'A disk read error occurred. I've tried fixmbr, fixboot, chkdsk and rerunning the Windows XP installer. The vast majority of my data is backed up on a second work/personal notebook however there is some information that I did not have recently backed up O(I know, stupidity & a bit of.
I started installing Windows XP SP2 on the other hard drive, but after it copied all the files from DOS and restarted, it gave the following error: It may be due to search fatigue, but in all the forums I ve read I have yet to find out an explanation for my drive issues or solution to getting Windows running. So I decided to give up on the hard drive and use my other one. I isolated the issue to a hard drive fault corrupting my registry, so I tried to repair the registry, but I discovered that that only temporarily fixes it and it eventually reverts to its previous state. If you were booting off a RAID volume, you could be out of luck depending on how the RAID volume was partitioned and formatted. Method 4 : You may try to run chkdsk from Recovery Console & check if you are able to boot to the desktop correctly. Youll also need to do a OS repair on XP, since the hardware delta between the VM and the old hardware will be too great for the OS to boot. Note: After clean boot troubleshooting step, follow the Steps to configure Windows to use a Normal startup state in the provided link to return your computer to Normal startup mode.
When I restarted I found that Windows wouldn't start up (the loading screen would just keep going for a long time and then restart). Make sure youre converting the full disk and not just the partition. That would make sence that the computer would only recognize a certain size or small of hard drive but that windows would be capable of seeing a large hard drive. So a while ago I had to do a cold shutdown because my Windows XP machine locked up.