crown711 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 bought a two year old 700x gatewaywith no hdd's ,no floppy ,no disk drives.(cd-roms)i have a xp pro sp2 disk ,i'm usingruns thru till it ask to agree on the licence .then i push f8 ,stops and forces me to reboot. have tried 4 different hdd's.all stop at same place on xp pro install.thanks for ALL replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 What are you going to install XP on if the machine has no HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grafx1 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 (edited) is the HDD Serial ATA ? i guess not as it is old machine...but if so, disable Serial support from Bios, then install XP SP2, then re-enable Serial support. Edited June 22, 2006 by grafx1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmshah Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 If its a serial ata drive & you disable serial support in bios the system will not even see the drive. Chances of sata support on 2 year old mobo are remote but not unknown.I have had one similar problem in the past with Intel mobo. It supported usb natively. After a while if would not boot or allow install if I had usb support turned on. There was nothing I could do to retrieve the mobo. Ultimately I simply had to junk it. From what little I know of Gateway they have always used Intel mobos. Try turning off all hardware peripheral support except the ide for your hdd & cdrom. It just might work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crown711 Posted June 25, 2006 Author Share Posted June 25, 2006 thanks guysgot it to install win xp pro BUT it installed as fat 32 and my large hdd is ntfs.i know i can't change the ntfs.how would i format the main system drive to ntfs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzyb0t Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 thanks guysgot it to install win xp pro BUT it installed as fat 32 and my large hdd is ntfs.i know i can't change the ntfs.how would i format the main system drive to ntfs ?My suggestion for you is to use a Bootable CD , something like BartPE or Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows to reformat the drive and reinstall Windows XPhttp://www.ubcd4win.com/It has tools to build the CD (You need a CD-ROM of Windows XP) and you can also install plugins to increase functionality. There are tools contained in the default installation that allow you to reformat and convert drives to NTFS from FAT12/16/32. Good luck. If you need a boot CD that's already made send me an e-mail @gmail with my username. Good luck!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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