I installed XP on C: then Win 8 on D: All went fine until Win 8 startup said it would do repairs.
This ran on forever so I booted up on active boot disc and corrected XP configuration.
Deleted all D: win 8 boot stuff. Restarted the PC and a message came up saying there was no windows.
Remove any hard drive etc. A reboot with active boot disc would not load the bootable CD and reverted to the same message.
I decided to try another hard disc and inserted win xp install CD. Now it is installing as I type.
I guess the only way to retrieve files from the other hard drive is to slave it.
Will try that when xp install completes.
Any Gurus know what is going on?
I did read some place that Win 8 writes to the bios and some other forum said there was a fix but no details.
Will look forward to feed back.
Win xp just finished installing so I hung the original hard drive back and the PC boots up again with access to both drives.
I must add that I hid the win 8 partition with Partition Magic until XP finished installing.
I just un hid it and rebooted. I now have access to all drives.
Frank
This ran on forever so I booted up on active boot disc and corrected XP configuration.
Deleted all D: win 8 boot stuff. Restarted the PC and a message came up saying there was no windows.
Remove any hard drive etc. A reboot with active boot disc would not load the bootable CD and reverted to the same message.
I decided to try another hard disc and inserted win xp install CD. Now it is installing as I type.
I guess the only way to retrieve files from the other hard drive is to slave it.
Will try that when xp install completes.
Any Gurus know what is going on?
I did read some place that Win 8 writes to the bios and some other forum said there was a fix but no details.
Will look forward to feed back.
Win xp just finished installing so I hung the original hard drive back and the PC boots up again with access to both drives.
I must add that I hid the win 8 partition with Partition Magic until XP finished installing.
I just un hid it and rebooted. I now have access to all drives.
Frank
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