Hi all, I am trying to fix a Maxdata 700T laptop (PIII 900MHz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb Hdd) for a friend. It was working ok but it was a hacked copy of xp, he now has a legit copy to install. I booted a Seagate utility cd and did a quick zero fill of the hdd to erase it. But the laptop won't boot from the Genuine XP cd, it will still boot from the Seagate disc. I tried making a set of XP setup floppies which go through all the motions but then I get a BSOD after the last floppy has loaded. I don't know whats going on?
get your xp cd and slipstream it. The software to slipstream is freeware. You can add extra drivers into the new slipstream disc if needed. I had an old xp sp1 that wasn't working until I slipstream it to sp2. You can also see if you can get an external USB CDROM and see if that might work
Hi, thanks for the advice, it was an SP2 cd that I was using, I seem to have sussed it now, I was using a Dell branded cd, (which I have used for many different pc's to install with) I tried with a copy of a generic xp cd and it booted. All sorted now, and it even installed all the devices in device manager, not sure if that was on cd or because I had ethernet connected during install? Thanks for taking the time to read.
