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My desktop PC was working on a 60GB hardrive running windows xp home edition. I recently found a spare 20GB one from another machine and connected it up to my computer, changing the jumpers on the original hardrive (which had xp OS ) to master and changing the 20GB one to the slave. I also made sure the ide cables were correctly connected and started up my PC. The bios detects both hardrives with them in the right order (xp OS one as the master) however it then goes to a screen giving me the options to start windows in safe mode, start with last working configurations or start windows normally. Which ever option I click it restarts the computer, and the same problem happens again. I then tried taking the 20GB hardrive out and just putting the original 60Gb one in how it was, but it still does the same thing.
Ive tried putting the windows xp installation disk in and booting it , however it gets to the "press f6 to install third party ... drivers" and then when the message dissappers nothing happens and it just freezes. Ive also tried using a ubuntu 8 live cd to access the hardrives but when that boots it goes to a black screen and says a lot of writing and the last line is "kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!".
Please help me as I can't use either hardrives, or use it how it was before I added the second hardrive, as windows doesnt boot and when I insert the install CD it freezes.
Ive tried putting the windows xp installation disk in and booting it , however it gets to the "press f6 to install third party ... drivers" and then when the message dissappers nothing happens and it just freezes. Ive also tried using a ubuntu 8 live cd to access the hardrives but when that boots it goes to a black screen and says a lot of writing and the last line is "kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!".
Please help me as I can't use either hardrives, or use it how it was before I added the second hardrive, as windows doesnt boot and when I insert the install CD it freezes.