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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?
 
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It must be seeing the drive, because it loading files to that drive. It asks me if I want to format that drive so it must be seeing it right? It just won't load after first reboot, plus I have never had to F6 this drive before when loading up a os.
 
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