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Old October 31st, 2002, 12:23 PM
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ok my friend has a 40 gig maxtor when we try to install windows xp on it right before it loads the screen that says press "f6 to install r to repair" it freezes i have fdisk the drive and repartiond it and allso when when i try to format the c: it says "media ready not reading"

other specs are pc133 1.2 athlon mobo i dont know off the top of my head a sony dvd drive and a oem cd burner
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r u running it stock when reformatting?
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Check you have the correct master\slave\cable select option set.

Make a boot disk (98se), boot off it. Do fdisk /mbr, then do fdisk and make a primary partition, make the partiton active. The do your XP install.
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is your heatsink mounted correctly... it might be overheating &nbsp; :blueconfused:
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ya the jumper is set right...and what do you mean stock when formatting?
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as in stock speeds...no overclocking
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yes there wuz no overclocking goin on at all
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pop it into another pc and try to install XP...?
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have you changed any BIOS settings for the hard drive or has &nbsp;it been left on "auto"?
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guss what made all this problem....it turns out it had nothing to do with the HD...it has an old like 663a ultra jetway....no bois update....and it had a gf4 ti4200...the bios had no display "drivers" for the card and when the windows screen to install poped up it wuz tooo extreme for the thos basic of basic drivers.....so i put in my old riva tnt 2 and it worked fine...when windows got done installing we put the ti 4200 back in and installed the new drives for it....works like a charm now
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