[portalman]

Ive installed windows Xp professional and it wont boot from the harddrive to finish the install and i cant get it to install on any other harddrives

 

[ahmorrow]

Maybe the DVD/CD is bad? Is it a DVD and all you have is CD drives?

 

[belfasteddie]

You are not giving us much to work with. you need to give more info.
If the Xp installation goes through the first part ( cd installation) then you can take it that the HD is good, otherwise Xp would refuse to load. It then reboots from HD. At this stage don't touch anything , let it work .

 

[dai]

if the hard drive is sata set it to be seen as ide in the bios

 

[portalman]

I solved that problem but now it isnt even detecting my maxtor 120 gb ide hdd so I had to use a stupid 10 gb.... how do i get it to detect it... my Os is on a quantum fireball 6 gb

 

[portalman]

Motherboard is a winfast nf4sk8aa (either 8krs or 8ekrs... i dont remember) but i had some bios troubles at one point with it not letting me into the bios but i fixed that with switching it from sli mode to normal mode (i dont know why that worked but it did) and it let me into the bios

 

[dai]

recheck the jumper on the maxtor

if it is not seen in the bios it is usually the jumper or the data cable