Installed new HD.
Boots fine, BIOS recognizes everything fine.
XP installation recognizes everything devices-wise. I input all the things it askes for, then it asks for the 2nd CD. Now, my DVD RW drive was acting up, not reading disks and all, but I kept poping it in and out and it finally read the 2nd disk. It ran/read it smooth for about 3 minutes, approx. 25 minutes left on install of XP on the new drive.
Then, error message - cannot find or corrupt file - the last segments are /dancer (or maybe dancers)/dancer. Truely a wtf moment - anyways, the computer restarted.
Back to same boat - installing again, disk 1 done, asking for disk 2, and at 28-ish minutes. BSoD - flashes so fast that Commander Data probably couldnt read it
- I think I saw an "IRQ" or "Hardware" something in there, but that was it.
At this point I am honestly considering doing my upgrade to a Vista's gaming PC, albeit 1 year or more ahead of when I was planning to. I already have a good video card (8800 GTS KO) and this new 650 GB HD to go in it, so all I'd need to order is the case, mobo, ram, and a small HD with Vista's on it and Im set. Man, this is getting expensive...