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    W3J + HDD Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by DTX, Mar 28, 2007.

  1. DTX

    DTX Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi All,

    Just upgraded my HDD from 5400RPM to 7200PRM with the same capacity. Windows Vista installs fine, however XP fails to complete the installation progress. After the first XP installation reboot, the system will stall after the following message:

    "Press any key to boot from DVD/CD....."

    It just stays there...and nothing happens. There is no HDD activity.

    When I remove the DVD/CD, what appears is a blank screen.

    I am able to get back to XP using my own restore disk. Thank goodness for Ghost!!!

    XP runs fine, its just that I cannot do a fresh install.

    Does anyone know why I can't install XP?
     
    DTX, Mar 28, 2007
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  2. will118

    will118 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i had a similar problem and i sent my laptop of to be fixed.

    Sorry i cant help
     
    will118, Mar 28, 2007
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  3. A-Lit

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    the only issue i had installing a 7200 hdd was that i didn't move over the little black plastic flap on the original stock 5400 drive; once i moved that over everything worked perfectly
     
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  4. DTX

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    Thats the first thing I did...remove the film from the old HDD, and installed it onto the new one!
     
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    Well, well, well! It turns out that if I create partitions using Vista, I cannot install XP. Did the XP installation again, but this time creating the partitions with XP, and it worked.

    Thank goodness, thought I had to RMA it.
     
    DTX, Mar 31, 2007
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    did you get your vista copy from the upgrade promotion?
     
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    Yes, and I have one from MSDN from my university.

    Installed the MSDN one though, but didnt enter the product key.
     
    DTX, Mar 31, 2007
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    interesting....
    i believe vista still uses the same version of NTFS that xp does. but i ran into a similar problem.
    on an external hard drive, if i created and formatted the partition in vista, vista could read it fine, but xp said it was a malfunctioning USB device. when i partitioned and formatted it in xp it worked on both operating systems.

    weird
     
    lord roddington, Mar 31, 2007
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