I have a WD 500gig HD with win xp pro on it. I reformatted drive and went to load xp pro back up, but after first reboot it says error loading operating system. I have done this several times with the same thing happening.
I then wrote zero's to entire drive, reformatted ,same error. Used win xp pro disk and used it to do fixboot and fixmbr, still same issue.
Here's what's weird, for a joke I tried to install Vista Ult and it worked just fine, but I don't want vista, I want xp.
What could be wrong with drive that it won't take xp but will take vista?
I then wrote zero's to entire drive, reformatted ,same error. Used win xp pro disk and used it to do fixboot and fixmbr, still same issue.
Here's what's weird, for a joke I tried to install Vista Ult and it worked just fine, but I don't want vista, I want xp.
What could be wrong with drive that it won't take xp but will take vista?