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Old 12-12-2006   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Brand New installation of XP Pro SP2 not booting..

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Originally Posted by camoranesi16
already unplugged and tried.. didtn work...

The HD is a brand new SATA2 Western Digital 250GB drive....

My DVD is master on primary IDE chanell..
If you cant boot from the CD its defective media. No need to take any other factors into consideration especially if other CD/DVDs are working. Try to create a Win98 bootable CD and then access the DVD drive.

And yes, first prepare your hard drive with Data Lifeguard tools

http://support.wdc.com/download/inde...id=999&swid=30

otherwise it wont boot anyway.
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