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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
I forget, did you also try repartitioning rather than just reformatting the existing partition?
Trying to think of anything else we didn’t do already...I doubt it’s the hard drive itself, since it’s recognized just fine.
No, I hadn’t tried repartitioning, I’ll try that next.
Did the boot sequence change in the BIOS settings?
/ sticking my nose into things that I don’t really know about
Did you try jiggling the thingy?
Finished my planting for the day. Got some coreopsis planted, my to-baccy plants in, and the new herb bed planted. Oh...and the watermelon. The Cubs are already behind and it’s time to start the grillin’.
Afternoon - had a great walk and gardening session. mmm. compost. Tomato bed double turned and composted. Robins were lined up waiting for us to go in for lunch. LSA has been planting asters along the rear fence. Got the rest of marigolds planted and did another ten liatris. Cleaned the planting kettle and it’s ready for impatiens.
We already goofed with the boot sequence, *and* jiggled the thingie.
Lots of thingies, in fact. ;-)
Now that is coming together; brownell’s catalog has occupied a treasured place in our home for many years. Being ~ slightly ~ warped, I use color coded paper clips to mark the pages. I know, but it keeps out of trouble elsewhere.
Well if jiggling the thingie didn’t work....
I need to move the overwintered ornamentals before I can put the ‘maters and peppers in....that’s for tomorrow. ‘Course I have no clue where to put anything so I might just go with the “plant-where-there-are-bare-spots-in-the-lawn” strategy.
Hmmmm.....I could also try the “hide-the-sump-pump-drain” strategy.
Damn, repartioning still didn’t work.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Installing WinXP on a reformatted drive. It boots from the CD, copies the installation files then reboots. But then instead of continuing the setup, it boots from the CD again and the setup starts over. It’s an endless cycle. The drive is properly recognized as primary master in the BIOS, but for some reason, the installation ~won’t~ boot to the hard drive. If I take the installation CD out, I just get a boot disk error.
Tried the following with no change:
Had setup reformat the drive
Deleted the existing partition and created a new one
Tried changing the boot sequence
ecurbh
WOOHOO!
I think I finally got it. Turns out to have been a bad or incompatible IDE cable. Thought I had already tried swapping them, but I guess not.
Whew. Thanks again for the help, Rosie.
Yay! Glad it turned out OK. And it’s all good information to file away...
Hope I actually was of some help!
Either should work out well though ‘hiding the sump-pump drain’ could be the priority place. Wasn’t that where your contribution to ‘ten-thousand-rain-gardens’ was going to go? We’re sipping on chai at the present, determining what if anything will be our next assigned task.
This is hair back again, I think you were of great help :~)
His monitor is still dead but the situation is much improved :~)
We’ve got the porch tarpage and the rest of the temp fencing all taken down and have returned to a summer porch! It’s nice!
Okay...sump pump plan it is.
Racing’s up next. No more garden chores until tomorrow.
I’m posting again from my computer. Still lots of installation and configuration to do, but the hard part is over.
SirKit’s laptop died yesterday. He and Joseph are going to do surgery on it this evening. We’ve been out digging the area and setting up the forms for the next concrete pour, which will be tomorrow. Looks like partly cloudy all day, so at least we won’t have to fool with working in bright sunshine, though it will still be warmish, up into the mid-70’s.
He was elated, along with the others, when it landed safely.
I want to scrape every last bit off MrsX’s laptop and do a clean install of WinXP.
How is it best to proceed?
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