Still having problems here, the computer still won’t boot from the HD.
I thought it might have been an issue with the formatting, but I also tried having the setup format it, both quick and regular. And I’ve tried all the different jumper settings. The drive is being recognized as the primary master, so I’m at a loss for what to try now. I even tried reinstalling Win2k again, but just bluescreened each time. :-\
Any possibility a brand new hard drive might work? That is an 8 year old drive.
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.
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?
I want to scrape every last bit off MrsX’s laptop and do a clean install of WinXP.
How is it best to proceed?