Hi
I have a Compaq SFF D500 and have been trying to upgrade to a 400gb hard drive.
I have changed the boot order in BIOS to boot from cd first.
The genuine XP disk will not boot up on this pc.
Have tried the XP disk on another pc and it boots ok.
Have swapped the cd rom for a known working cd rom but still will not boot.
I DO NOT GET A PROMPT TO BOOT FROM CD.
I have downloaded the 6 startup floppy diskettes from Microsoft.
I have changed the boot order in BIOS to boot from diskette first.
The problem I am getting is that after I have put in the 6th diskette I get the dreaded blue screen with the message Unmountable Boot Volume.
I have tried to start up this Compaq with 4 different hard drives that were all working fine in other pcs but all come back with the same error message. All the hard drives were fully formatted first.
I have absolutely no idea what the problem can be.
If you have any ideas please let me know in laymans terms....i.e. step by step instructions.
I have a Compaq SFF D500 and have been trying to upgrade to a 400gb hard drive.
I have changed the boot order in BIOS to boot from cd first.
The genuine XP disk will not boot up on this pc.
Have tried the XP disk on another pc and it boots ok.
Have swapped the cd rom for a known working cd rom but still will not boot.
I DO NOT GET A PROMPT TO BOOT FROM CD.
I have downloaded the 6 startup floppy diskettes from Microsoft.
I have changed the boot order in BIOS to boot from diskette first.
The problem I am getting is that after I have put in the 6th diskette I get the dreaded blue screen with the message Unmountable Boot Volume.
I have tried to start up this Compaq with 4 different hard drives that were all working fine in other pcs but all come back with the same error message. All the hard drives were fully formatted first.
I have absolutely no idea what the problem can be.
If you have any ideas please let me know in laymans terms....i.e. step by step instructions.