What you say about the Win install sounds logical although I don't understand how the CD knows not to install itself on the system. BTW, I was...
Bruce, Both versions of XP are the Home edition, except my son's is for a Gateway while mine is for an HP. I don't know if this matters or not. I...
I got this message from Acronis support last night: "As far as boot fixes (sic) does not help the problem is related to the drivers...
OK, I got into the BIOS. The new HD is indeed the primary master. There is a secondary master (CR-48XATE, which I presume is a CD drive, and a...
Really? Why? What do you mean by partition AND format?
No. I didn't think I had to if I restored to it from another drive. Do I have to format it? Al
Well, after the repeated Acronis recovery, I tried booting again and got this message: Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. So,...
See my reply to the previous poster. I am currently re-recovering my data again after the new jumper setting, so I haven't consulted the BIOS yet....
Thank you for your reply. Both the old and new drives are IDE drives. I checked the jumper on the new WD drive, and it was set on Cable Select...
I'm at my wits end. I've read many of the threads on this forum about difficulties booting after an attempted recovery onto a new HD, but nothing...
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