PLEASE HELP! found this website from a kind person at microsoft community newsgroups but nobody has answered my distressed plea.
Attempted to install a SCSI card. The manufacturer said it is Win XP compatible - APPARENTLY
NOT!
Computer refuse to boot up, would stall at the first 30 seconds.
Removed hardware, managed to get into 'safe mode' then uninstalled the hardware, still would not boot up properly on windows.
Next I tried, can't even get into 'safe mode' anymore.... stalls just 13 seconds after restarting.
Tried everything with 'Recovery Disc' (Repair, Fresh etc...) would stall while running Wins (about after 15 secs), tried reformatting (drastic i know, but i am desperate!) everything went ok but stalled during setup just as it was about 55% done installing the devices!
I am stuck and not knowing what to do anymore! please help!
someone kind online suggested the below:-
"If your just trying to get XP installed on your HD again without using the SCSI card, use a 98SE bootdisk & fdisk the drive (wipe it clean) then try installing XP again, formatting doesn't wipe the drive clean which is likely what's needed for XP to install again."
i did what was suggested, everything went fine but still won't go pass the 'installing devices' stage during Win XP installation... PLEASE HELP!
could it be a faulty hard drive? or perhaps bad clusters?
i am clueless and am totally exasperated!
anyone out there with answers for me?
many thanks!
Attempted to install a SCSI card. The manufacturer said it is Win XP compatible - APPARENTLY
NOT!
Computer refuse to boot up, would stall at the first 30 seconds.
Removed hardware, managed to get into 'safe mode' then uninstalled the hardware, still would not boot up properly on windows.
Next I tried, can't even get into 'safe mode' anymore.... stalls just 13 seconds after restarting.
Tried everything with 'Recovery Disc' (Repair, Fresh etc...) would stall while running Wins (about after 15 secs), tried reformatting (drastic i know, but i am desperate!) everything went ok but stalled during setup just as it was about 55% done installing the devices!
I am stuck and not knowing what to do anymore! please help!
someone kind online suggested the below:-
"If your just trying to get XP installed on your HD again without using the SCSI card, use a 98SE bootdisk & fdisk the drive (wipe it clean) then try installing XP again, formatting doesn't wipe the drive clean which is likely what's needed for XP to install again."
i did what was suggested, everything went fine but still won't go pass the 'installing devices' stage during Win XP installation... PLEASE HELP!
could it be a faulty hard drive? or perhaps bad clusters?
i am clueless and am totally exasperated!
anyone out there with answers for me?
many thanks!