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
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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.