windows just installed computer wont boot

[dankity]

okay once it finishes installing [its formatting the drive to ntfs for now...], what boot order should i put? or should i set the defualt boot options, or will it do it automatically...
[i have one hard drive, one floppy, 2cd rom]

 

[dankity]

it still doesnt work
what im wondering is if it even finishes installing at all...
it says "setup is copying files to windows folder...." gets to a 100%, "restarting system" and wala the disk read error

 

[dankity]

okay i got it
i used a different install disc i had...setup finished , only problem was drive showed up as 126gig only.... so im re-erasing it and reinstalling the windows that worked

 

[EricB]

that a sp1 disc. make 2 or 3 partitions

 

[dankity]

what software would i use for that?

 

[EricB]

the xp disc. make partitions on the setup screen. hit c to create partition instead of enter to install xp

 

[dankity]

yes well the problem with that is that even at that point the "unpartitioned space" is only 120something gigs... whereas seatools says 300...

i tried making a 30 partition and installing.... now in disc manager it shows a 30 partition ..and only 90something unallocated...

 

[EricB]

yes well the problem with that is that even at that point the "unpartitioned space" is only 120something gigs... whereas seatools says 300...

i tried making a 30 partition and installing.... now in disc manager it shows a 30 partition ..and only 90something unallocated...

delete it and start over. systems before xp sp2 only recognize 137 gig (which equals 126 in the real world)

 

[dankity]

so how will starting over help?
in the setup itself it only recognizes 136 or however much...

i do however have my old 40gig with windows on it, should i boot up from that and then use it to partition the new drive...will it then show up full size when i install windows?

 

[Nikkon]

Boot with your old hard drive and place your new hard drive as a secondary drive (make sure you move the jumper). Do a check disk on the new hard drive, you might have a few bad sectors.